The DOI matches its Crossref record; 112 of the 112 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Changing the focus of locus (of control): A targeted review of the locus of control literature and agenda for future research
Abstract
Summary: Locus of control—a fundamental individual difference variable that reflects individuals' beliefs about the degree of control they have over events in their lives—has been formally studied for more than 50 years. Early scholarship demonstrated that locus of control was a key predictor of various work‐related outcomes, ranging from job attitudes and affect to motivation and behavior. Despite this evidence, the majority of contemporary organizational research has moved away from examining locus of control as an independent construct. Instead, locus of control is now commonly examined as a component of core self‐evaluation. However, recent research suggests that locus of control is in fact an independent, distinct concept and that core self‐evaluation research should continue without incorporating locus of control in future work. This presents an opportunity to theoretically review locus of control as a distinct construct and explicate its salient characteristics. Accordingly, this review aims to further clarify the construct of locus of control, provide a foundation upon which research may build, and elucidate fruitful avenues for future research.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
1 retracted
Potential Functional and Dysfunctional Effects of Continuous Monitoring (Retracted)
Hunton, J. E., Mauldin, E. G., & Wheeler, P. R. (2008) · The Accounting Review · doi:10.2308/accr.2008.83.6.1551 · Cited by 61
Retracted(1975) · PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation) · Cited by 36,737
Generalized expectancies for internal versus external control of reinforcement.
Rotter, J. B. (1966) · Psychological Monographs: General and Applied · doi:10.1037/h0092976 · Cited by 21,937
The job demands-resources model of burnout.
Demerouti, E., Bakker, A. B., Nachreiner, F., & Schaufeli, W. B. (2001) · Journal of Applied Psychology · doi:10.1037/0021-9010.86.3.499 · Cited by 13,643
The psychology of interpersonal relations.
Heider, F. (1958) · doi:10.1037/10628-000 · Cited by 13,457
Illusion and well‐being: A social psychological perspective on mental health
Taylor, S. E., & Brown, J. D. (1988) · Psychological Bulletin · doi:10.1037/0033-2909.103.2.193 · Cited by 7,814
Attitude-behavior relations: A theoretical analysis and review of empirical research
Ajzen, I., & Fishbein, M. (1977) · Psychological Bulletin · doi:10.1037/0033-2909.84.5.888 · Cited by 7,611
Motivational beliefs, values, and goals
Eccles, J. S., & Wigfield, A. (2002) · Annual Review of Psychology · doi:10.1146/annurev.psych.53.100901.135153 · Cited by 7,587
Crafting a Job: Revisioning Employees as Active Crafters of Their Work
Wrzesniewski, A., & Dutton, J. E. (2001) · The Academy of Management Review · doi:10.2307/259118 · Cited by 4,965
An Attributional Theory of Motivation and Emotion
Weiner, B. (1986) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-4948-1 · Cited by 4,942
Cited by
The Emotion Process: Event Appraisal and Component Differentiation
Scherer, K. R., & Moors, A. (2019) · Annual Review of Psychology · doi:10.1146/annurev-psych-122216-011854 · Cited by 688
Cheng, B., Lin, H., & Kong, Y. (2023) · Journal of Business Research · doi:10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.113987 · Cited by 272
Lukacs, J. N., Bratu, A., Adams, S., Logie, C., Tok, N., McCunn, L. J., Lem, M., Henley, A., Closson, K., Martin, G., et al. (2023) · Journal of Environmental Psychology · doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2023.102091 · Cited by 26
Gong, X., Huebner, E. S., & Tian, L. (2021) · Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology · doi:10.1007/s10802-020-00752-2 · Cited by 26
Metadata
- Authors
- Galvin, B. M., Randel, A. E., Collins, B. J., & Johnson, R. E.
- Venue
- Journal of Organizational Behavior
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2018-03-23
- Volume
- 39
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 820-833
- ISSN
- 0894-3796 (ISSN-L)
- 1099-1379
- OpenAlex
- W2793377211
- Cited by
- 265
- References
- 112
- FWCI
- 26.35
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Changing the focus of locus (of control): A targeted review of the locus of control literature and agenda for future research. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1002/job.2275
- The paper
- Galvin, B. M., Randel, A. E., Collins, B. J., & Johnson, R. E. (2018). Changing the focus of locus (of control): A targeted review of the locus of control literature and agenda for future research. Journal of Organizational Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2275
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
