چکیده (انگلیسی):

To help counselors develop strategies to enhance students’ social, personal, and psychological
well-being, this research provides an understanding of how students perceive their environment.
Specifically examining graduate and undergraduate students, the researcher was concerned with
ascertaining the effect of the college-major variable (Business Administration versus Health Care
Administration) and classification (graduate versus undergraduate) of the internal versus external
Locus of Control orientations. Employed in this investigation was a parametric procedure, which
was the t-Test of independent samples. One hundred twenty-five (125) graduate and
undergraduate students were selected to participate in this empirical study. The Social Reaction
Inventory Questionnaire was used to collect the data regarding the internal versus external
orientations of the college students. The investigative instrument had a split-half reliability
coefficient of .82 for the test as a whole and was deemed to have excellent construct validity. The
study concluded that Business and Health Care Administration students have similar overall
Locus of Control orientation scores, graduate students have similar overall Locus of Control
orientation scores, and counselors and other concerned individuals in the helping profession
should be cognizant of the characteristics and traits of internally and externally oriented students.