Multiple Intelligence and its Influence on Locus of Control

By : Ruchi Dubey Chaturvedi

Page No: 277-293

Abstract
Awareness is the first step in the creation process. Understanding one’s own self gives an individual the opportunity and freedom to change those things they would like to change about themselves and create the life they want. Attribution style can be regarded as akin to Self-awareness and its interactions with multiple forms of Intelligence will offer valuable insights. For this purpose, Sixty five participants were selected from different parts of Mumbai. They were employed in professions like Defence Services, Teaching, Banking, Business and Corporate firms. They belonged to the Young Adulthood age group (20 to 40 years). Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence Scale (2005) and Levenson’s Multidimensional Locus of Control Scales (1972) was administered on them. The results showed that the participants were exhibiting all three Attribution Styles, namely, I, C and P, but in different levels. Internal Attribution (I) was not correlating with the other two Attributions Styles - C and P. While the two ‘External-to-Self’ Attributions styles C and P were showing significant positive correlation, ANOVA and Post Hoc results also indicated toward significant differences only between I and P scales. Further, different patterns of significant correlation was observed between different types of Intelligence and the three scales of LOC.

Author :
Ruchi Dubey Chaturvedi : (PhD, NET, JRF) Assistant Professor — Dept of Psychology, Jai Hind College, A Road, Churchgate, Mumbai 400020, India