ArticleJournal of youth and adolescence2017
Can Locus of Control Compensate for Socioeconomic Adversity in the Transition from School to Work?
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- Agency and Opportunity in Early Adolescence: Investigating Gender-Specific Patterns in Developmental Trajectories Using Longitudinal Data.Journal of adolescence · 2025Article
- The Mediating Role of Self-Efficacy in the Relationship Between Locus of Control and Resilience in Primary School Students.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2025Article
- Maternal depressive symptoms and young people's higher education participation and choice of university: Evidence from a longitudinal cohort study.Journal of affective disorders · 2024Article
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- Associations between Adolescent Psychosocial Factors and Disengagement from Education and Employment in Young Adulthood among Individuals with Common Mental Health Problems.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2022Article
- Parental substance use disorder and offspring not in education, employment or training: a national cohort study of young adults in Sweden.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2022Article
- On the Rocky Road to Independence: Big Five Personality Traits and Locus of Control in Polish Primary School Students during Transition into Early Adolescence.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Invited Commentary: Societal Constraints and Individual Agency: Navigating Educational Transitions for Upward Mobility.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2021Article
- Believing and Achieving: Gendered Pathways Toward Upward Educational Mobility in the United States.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2021Article
- Can Individual Agency Compensate for Background Disadvantage? Predicting Tertiary Educational Attainment among Males and Females.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2021Article
- Locus of Control and Negative Cognitive Styles in Adolescence as Risk Factors for Depression Onset in Young Adulthood: Findings From a Prospective Birth Cohort Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Personality Traits and Further Training.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Emerging Scholar Best Article Award, 2018.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2018Article
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Abstract
Internal locus of control is associated with academic success and indicators of wellbeing in youth. There is however less understanding regarding the role of locus of control in shaping the transition from school to work beyond the more widely studied predictors of socioeconomic background and academic attainment. Guided by a socio-ecological model of agency, the current study examines to which extent internal locus of control, understood as an indicator of individual agency, can compensate for a lack of socioeconomic resources by moderating the association between parental disadvantage and difficulties in the transition from school to work. We draw on data collected from a longitudinal nationally representative cohort of 15,770 English youth (48% female) born in 1989/90, following their lives from age 14 to 20. The results suggest that the influence of agency is limited to situations where socioeconomic risk is not overpowering. While internal locus of control may help to compensate for background disadvantage regarding avoidance of economic inactivity and unemployment to some extent, it does not provide protection against long-term inactivity, i.e. more than 6 months spent not in education, employment or training.
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