The Health Student Academic Locus of Contro] Scale is a 20-item context-specific scale, developed to measure Internal and External control beliefs of students in courses allied to medicine. Psychometric properties are acceptable (N = 164) so the scale can be used to measure control beliefs in a longitudinal study.
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