Locus of Control and Academic Achievement among Student Nurses in Cross River State, Nigeria
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Academic achievement, clinical competency, external locus of control, internal locus of control and personality.Abstract
Purpose: The study was carried out to determine the extent to which locus of control predict academic achievement in foundation of nursing among student nurses in Cross River State.
Methodology: Two research hypothesis were formulated and tested at .05 level of significance. The study adopted the Ex-post facto research design. To test the hypothesis, a questionnaire titled 'Locus of control and academic achievement was used. The questionnaire contained two sections; section A and section B. Section A contained 12 items with a Cronbach reliability estimate of .85. Section B contained 50 multiple choice questions with a Kuder-Richardson (k-R20) reliability estimate of .92. The questionnaires were administered on 766 student nurses from 100 to 300 level of study from all the four schools of nursing in Cross River State. The data collected were analyzed using simple linear regression and multiple linear regression.
Findings: The research finding showed that internal locus of control does not significantly predict academic achievement in Foundation of Nursing among student nurses. While external locus of control significantly predicts academic achievement in Foundation of nursing among student nurses.
Recommendations: Based on these findings, the researcher recommends that there should be attribution training for learners at all levels of education to encourage attribution to controllable factors. Also, parents, teachers, educational psychologist, counsellors and significant other should encourage students to see themselves as originals and not as pawns.
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