Personality and Locus of Control among Business Administration Students

Dr. Y.T Balakrishna Acharya

Volume : VI, Issue : VIII, August - 2016

Personality and Locus of Control among Business Administration Students

Dr. Y. T Balakrishna Acharya

Abstract :

The study was conducted to analyze the personality and locus of control among Business administrative students (30 male and 30 female). Assessment of personality was done using NEO FFI developed by Costa and McCrae (1991), locus of control using Levenson’s Locus of Control Scale developed by Levenson (1972). The data was analyzed by using descriptive statistics and Independent ‘t’ test. The findings of the study indicated that there is no significant difference between male and female Business administration students in various dimensions of personality such as neuroticism, extraversion–introversion, openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness. On locus of control business administration male and male students were found to have External locus of control and no significant difference was found in chance control and individual control.