Practice question · Multiple choice
An internal locus of control is generally associated with better coping. Why can it become a liability in a genuinely uncontrollable situation?
Hints
- Ask what an internal attributor concludes after a redundancy caused by a market collapse.
- The trait is usually adaptive because most outcomes are partly controllable. What if this one is not?
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B. Because owning outcomes you could not change makes luck into failure
Why
Owning outcomes is protective while outcomes are partly yours to own. Applied to a bereavement or a market collapse it becomes self-blame, which is precisely the attributional style implicated in depression, so the healthy pattern is calibration rather than a maximised internal score.
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