Health locus of control is, in the multidimensional form, attributed to internal factors, chance, or external factors [ 18].
Respondents used a Likert scale to rate their agreement with six statements that characterized each LoC dimension: internal (I), chance (C) and powerful others (PO).
Both groups presented a similar pattern of illness beliefs, according to which higher values were identified in the internal and chance dimensions followed by the dimensions of doctors and important others (See Table 4).
A model consisting of the variables Internal and Chance health locus of control and total GHQ score explained 21.6% of variance in evaluative pain, 32.6% of variance in affective pain, 28.0% of variance in sensoric pain and 32.5% of variance in total pain.
The mean corrected item-total correlations for the three subscales of HSLC (health-care LOC, internal LOC, and chance LOC) were 0.40, 0.59, and 0.40 respectively.
The recruitment questionnaire (A1) included a section on socio-demographic and lifestyle factors (such as, educational level, employment status, parity and smoking) and the multi-dimensional health locus of control scale (MHLCS), which measures three dimensions of health locus of control (chance, internal and powerful others; Wallston et al, 1978).
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