Locus of Control and Entrepreneurial Role Stress

ABSTRACT

Stress is inevitable in the modern life.  Stress can also help individuals to work hard and achieve the desired goal. But beyond a certain level, stress can start causing major damage to physical and mental health, performance and productivity, family and work relationships and quality of life. One of the major factors contributing to stress in is the amount of control an individual perceives over the circumstance and events that occur. Locus of control is the degree of control possessed by the person in overcoming the outcome of negative events happening in life. Persons having internal locus of control analyse the causes of negative impact of events internally and take steps to avoid the events in the near future.

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