Locus of Control and Achievement Motivation Among a Sample of Primary School Teachers in Laghouat

Abstract

 The current study aimed to identify the differences in achievement motivation according to the locus of control among primary school teachers. The study sample consisted of 80 male and female teachers from some primary schools in Laghouat. The researcher used the Locus of Control Scale by Alaa El Dine Kafafi (1982) and the Achievement Motivation Scale by Abdel Latif Mohammed Khalifa (2000). The researcher adopted the descriptive approach due to its suitability to the study's nature and objectives. The study reached the following results:

• There were no significant differences in achievement motivation according to locus of control among the study sample.


• There were significant differences in locus of control attributed to the gender variable among the study sample.


• There were no significant differences in achievement motivation attributed to the gender variable among the study sample.