Effect of Locus of Control and Depression Among Young Adults in Multan (Pakistan)

Abstract

Depression is a widespread and severe disease that effects negatively on how individuals feel, think and act. It affects an individual's power of judgments, events, activities, feelings, behavior, and sense of well-being. On the other hand, locus of control has generalized expectancy or belief as to whether an individual’s life is controlled by abilities and behaviors or external forces such as fate, destiny, powerful others, luck or chance. The purpose of the present study is to check out the effect of locus of control and depression among young adults to explore the association between locus of control and depression. The sample consisted of 116 individuals from Multan Dist. Rotter’s locus of control scale (RL of CS) and Becks depression inventory (BDI) are used to get the predicted hypothesis—an online survey was conducted to get the particular results. The outcomes draw attention to the locus of control as one of the cognitive variables that play an important role in depression. The results suggest that young males are less likely to be depressed as compared to females. The study findings show that males have a higher internal locus of control level, and females have a higher external LOC. It is suggested that there is a need to create awareness programs among young adults to eradicate depression because it is very harmful to life.