The relationship between LOC and academic
achievement is convoluted. Intuitively, students who
attribute success to internal factors are likely to expect
future successes; students who attribute failure to
internal factors may expect future failure unless they
consider themselves capable of and actively address
those factors. Conversely, attributing success to external
factors would make future successes unpredictable and
deem the student powerless to address what they
perceive to be uncontrollable factors. Within the domain
of education, internal LOC has been found to be a
positive predictor of academic achievement [9] and
external LOC to be a negative predictor of academic
achievement [10]. In the present study, LOC is measured
using a domain-specific academic LOC scale