Relationships of Locus of Control to Self-esteem, Academic Achievement, and Prediction of Performance Among Nigerian Secondary School Pupils

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ID5265322
AuthorsMuhammad Maqsud (Bayero University Kano, corresponding author)
Year1983
Volume53
Issue2
Pages215-221
Publication date1983-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBritish Journal of Educational Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0007-0998 • E-ISSN: 2044-8279
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.2044-8279.1983.tb02552.x
OpenAlexW1989540223
LanguageEN
Citations received12

The purpose of this study was: (a) to investigate the effects of socioeconomic background, locus of control, intelligence, and self-esteem on academic achievement of Nigerian secondary school pupils; (b) and to examine the relationships of locus of control to socio-economic background, intelligence, self-esteem, academic achievement and prediction of academic performance. Eighty secondary school boys completed the Socio-economic Background Questionnaire, the Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices, the Brookover Scale of Self-Concept of Academic Ability, and provided estimates of prediction of their own academic performance. The analyses of data revealed that: (a) all the four independent variables (socio-economic background, locus of control, intelligence, self-esteem) had significant positive effects on academic achievement; (b) internality significantly positively correlated with intelligence, self-esteem and academic achievement; (c) the internals were significantly more accurate predictors of their own academic performance than the externals

Academic achievement · Cognition · Developmental psychology · Locus of control · Population · Raven's Progressive Matrices · Self-esteem · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Demography · Education and Islamic Studies · Education, Achievement, and Giftedness · Grit, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation · Psychology · Social Psychology

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