図書館から借りる本が途切れた時に読む "Understanding Psychology" に覚えておきたい表現がありました。
People with positive attributional styles, who see themselves as able to control events by hard work and effort, and who don't give up, tend to experience stress very differently. They are much less likely to become depressed, and much more likely to be able actually to do something about their situation, because they keep looking for ways to change it. These people have what is known as an internal locus of control. They believe that what happens to them is largely controlled by their own efforts. People with a depressive attributional style have an external locus of control, believing that they cannot influence what happens to them.
"locus" は単に中心と解しても意味が通じますが、"internal locus of control" と "external locus of control" は心理学用語となっているようです。 とりあえず、"locus" 単独の意味を確認します。
・Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary: a center of activity, attention, or concentration: in democracy the locus of power is in the people
・Cambridge English Dictionary: the place where something happens or the central area of interest in something being discussed:
"locus of control" についてはWikipediaに詳しい説明があります。Wikipediaから冒頭の個所のみ引用します。
: In personality psychology, locus of control refers to the extent to which individuals believe that they can control events that affect them. Understanding of the concept was developed by Julian B. Rotter in 1954, and has since become an aspect of personality studies. A person's "locus" (Latin for "place" or "location") is conceptualized as either internal (the person believes they can control their life) or external (meaning they believe that their decisions and life are controlled by environmental factors which they cannot influence, or by chance or fate)
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Individuals with a high internal locus of control believe that events in their life derive primarily from their own actions: for example, when receiving test results, people with an internal locus of control would tend to praise or blame themselves and their abilities, whereas people with an external locus of control would tend to praise or blame an external factor such as the teacher or the test.
確かにほとんどの事は "locus of control" で対処できる気がしていますが、シリアや北朝鮮の多くの人達は自分達ではどうしようもない環境に住んでいるのではないでしょうか。 そんな人々はほとんど "external locus of control" の考え方にならざるを得ないでしょう。
People with positive attributional styles, who see themselves as able to control events by hard work and effort, and who don't give up, tend to experience stress very differently. They are much less likely to become depressed, and much more likely to be able actually to do something about their situation, because they keep looking for ways to change it. These people have what is known as an internal locus of control. They believe that what happens to them is largely controlled by their own efforts. People with a depressive attributional style have an external locus of control, believing that they cannot influence what happens to them.
"locus" は単に中心と解しても意味が通じますが、"internal locus of control" と "external locus of control" は心理学用語となっているようです。 とりあえず、"locus" 単独の意味を確認します。
・Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary: a center of activity, attention, or concentration: in democracy the locus of power is in the people
・Cambridge English Dictionary: the place where something happens or the central area of interest in something being discussed:
"locus of control" についてはWikipediaに詳しい説明があります。Wikipediaから冒頭の個所のみ引用します。
: In personality psychology, locus of control refers to the extent to which individuals believe that they can control events that affect them. Understanding of the concept was developed by Julian B. Rotter in 1954, and has since become an aspect of personality studies. A person's "locus" (Latin for "place" or "location") is conceptualized as either internal (the person believes they can control their life) or external (meaning they believe that their decisions and life are controlled by environmental factors which they cannot influence, or by chance or fate)
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Individuals with a high internal locus of control believe that events in their life derive primarily from their own actions: for example, when receiving test results, people with an internal locus of control would tend to praise or blame themselves and their abilities, whereas people with an external locus of control would tend to praise or blame an external factor such as the teacher or the test.
確かにほとんどの事は "locus of control" で対処できる気がしていますが、シリアや北朝鮮の多くの人達は自分達ではどうしようもない環境に住んでいるのではないでしょうか。 そんな人々はほとんど "external locus of control" の考え方にならざるを得ないでしょう。
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