• Jaleh Hassaskhah

  Author

• Fatemeh Jahedi

  Author

The present study was designed to investigate the relationship between locus of control
orientation and academic achievement of Iranian English Major Students. The participants in
this study were 387 English Major Students studying in different Iranian universities in the
academic year 2014- 2015.The design of the study was non- experimental ex-post facto. The data
were collected through online and offline administration of Rotter’s (1966) Internal-External
Locus of Control Scale. The results, obtained through the statistical techniques of correlation
and multinomial logistic regression, revealed that there is a significant relationship between
locus of control orientation and academic achievement. Moreover, the investigation of the
findings indicated that increase in external locus of control increased the probability of having
low academic achievement. The findings provide evidence for the existence of students’ more
frequent response to external locus of control in the Iranian academic context which calls for
further attention as it is associated with low academic achievement.

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