Role of Locus of Control and Gender on Psychological Well-being among Youth Athletes

Abstract

The study investigated the role of locus of control and gender on psychological well-being among youth athletes. Participants were 220 undergraduate athletes from Faculty of Social Science and Humanities Ebonyi State University Abakiliki, South-East, Nigeria. Two null hypotheses were tested: locus of control will not play significant role on psychological well- being of adolescent athletes and that gender will not play significant role on adolescent athletes’ psychological well-being. Two hundred and twenty undergraduates participated in this research, 120 males and 100 females. The locus of control scale developed by Pettijohn (1992) based on Rotter’s original idea and Ryff (1989) forty two-item Scale of Psychological well-being were used for collection of data. Cross sectional survey design was adopted for the study while the multiple linear Regression statistics was employed for data analysis. The two hypotheses tested were not accepted showing that locus of control and gender predicted adolescent athletes’ psychological well-being.