Belief in Personal Control and Its Relationship to some Variables among Secondary School Students

Abstract

The research aims to identify the belief in personal control among secondary school students and its relationship to some variables. The descriptive, correlational approach was adopted, and to achieve the objectives of the research, the scale (Berrenberg, 1987) was adopted. The measure of the belief in personal control consisted of (45) items, with (19) items for the dimension General external control, (17) items for the exaggerated control dimension, and (9) items for the divine mediation dimension. On a five-point scale (strongly agree, agree, I have no opinion, reject, strongly reject), and after verifying the standard properties of the scale in terms of validity and reliability, the scale was applied to the research sample of (400) male and female students, with (204) male and (196) male students. A female student, from the specialization (scientific, literary), and they were selected by random stratified methods. After statistical analysis of the data obtained from the sample using a one-sample t-test, the results concluded that the members of the sample, middle school students, enjoy a good level of belief in personal control, and based on the results that were reached To this end, the two researchers proposed a set of recommendations and proposals.