Locus de control en estudiantes de la carrera de Derecho de la Universidad de Cuenca, en el período 2022 - 2023

Abstract

The locus of control explains to what extent people attribute the events that develop in their environment either as the result of their own actions or as a result of external forces and has important implications for the academic field. Therefore, the objective of the study was to describe the locus of control in Law students of the University of Cuenca in the period 2022- 2023, according to sociodemographic variables; and to identify the type of locus of control that predominates in these students. We worked with a sample of 209 students of said career. It was a quantitative study; non-experimental, cross-sectional and descriptive design. Levenson's Locus of Control Scale (1974) was applied, in addition to a sociodemographic form. The predominant type of locus of control was internal; the 'medium' level prevailed in most sociodemographic variables: for gender, a higher percentage of the male group; for age, the range corresponding to early adulthood; and for marital status, the group identified as single; on the other hand, it was found that people with an internal locus of control reached higher levels of academic satisfaction. It was concluded that in law students the medium level internal locus of control prevails; as for internality, emerging adults showed a higher mean with respect to early adults; and in reference to gender, the mean of the male group is higher than the female group, both in internality and externality.