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TABLE 1.

Proposed locus of control (LOC) patterns

Type	Description	I-LOC	P-LOC	C-LOC	Comment
I	Pure internal (PI-LOC)	⁺	⁻	⁻	“…depends on me”
II	Pure powerful others (PP-LOC)	⁻	⁺	⁻	“…depends on others”
III	Pure chance (PC-LOC)	⁻	⁻	⁺	“…depends on chance”
IV	Double external (DE-LOC)	⁻	⁺	⁺	“…does not depend on me”
V	Believer in control (BiC-LOC)	⁺	⁺	⁻	“…depends partly on me and partly on others”
VI	Type VI-LOC^*	⁺	⁻	⁺	“…depends partly on me and partly on chance”
VII	Yeasayer (YS-LOC)	⁺	⁺	⁺	“…depends on all these three factors”
VIII	Naysayer (NS-LOC)	⁻	⁻	⁻	“…does not depend on any of these three factors”

+ High scores;

− Low scores.

Probably nonexistent, extremely rare and/or conceptually difficult to understand according to Wallston and Wallston (38). Adapted from reference 38. C-LOC Chance LOC; I-LOC Internal LOC; P-LOC Powerful others LOC