The relationship between locus of control and depression among college students of Gulbarga city

Pages:249-255
Abdul Raffie Naik and Jeyavel Sundaramoorthy (Department of Psychology, School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Central University of Karnataka)

The current study focuses on locus of control &depression and the relationship between them, as well as with the demographic variables such as gender (male and female), course of study (science and arts) and locality (urban and rural) among college students of Gulbarga city. It is a promising area of inquiry. The age of college students is a critical context for studying youth mental health. The study was conducted on 171 college student of Gulbarga city who were selected by a random sampling method (lottery method). The questionnaire consisted of personal data sheet, beck depression inventory, and Rotter’s locus of control scale. Descriptive Statistics and non-parametric statistics as Mann-Witney test (U) and chi-square test (χ2) were used to analyze the data. The results could not find significant difference on depression among male and female college students, but findings showed that there is a significant difference on depression among science and arts, and rural and urban. The findings showed that there is no significant difference on locus of control among male & female, science & arts and urban & rural college students. The results also show that there is significant association between depression and Locus of Control.