The Impact of Locus of Control towards Depression in Chronic Disease Outpatients

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10.2991/acpch-18.2019.45How to use a DOI?

Keywords

LOC, Depression, Chronic disease

Abstract

Chronic illness is a persistent disease which sometimes cannot be cured. This condition directly raises anxiety, worries and even depression to whom suffers from it. Individual who possess internal locus of control tends to believe that their own abilities controlled their own success, while people who has external locus of control believe that others people are responsible for their success. Locus of control (LOC) is defined as someone belief towards a result which is controlled internally or externally. The aim of this research is finding the impact of locus of control towards depression in chronic disease whom go through periods of outpatients. The subject of this research was 100 outpatients whom suffered from chronic disease. The result showed that locus of control has significant impact towards depression in chronic disease patients.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Annisa Baitina
AU  - Fikrhatul Fitriyah Musthafa
PY  - 2019/03
DA  - 2019/03
TI  - The Impact of Locus of Control towards Depression in Chronic Disease Outpatients
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th ASEAN Conference on Psychology, Counselling, and Humanities (ACPCH 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 183
EP  - 185
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/acpch-18.2019.45
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