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Internal-External Control

"Internal-External Control" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Personality construct referring to an individual's perception of the locus of events as determined internally by his or her own behavior versus fate, luck, or external forces. (ERIC Thesaurus, 1996).


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Internal-External Control" by people in this website by year, and whether "Internal-External Control" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 39 publications over 20 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2009
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