backVolume 5, Issue 2 (1976)Locus of Control and Academic Achievement in Emotionally Disturbed ChildrenA.J. Finch, Jr., K.A. Pezzuti, W.M. Nelson IIIpp. 24???25Individuals who perceive reinforcement to be a result of luck, chance, fate, or other people are said to have an external locus of control, while those who perceive reinforcement as being contingent on their own behavior are internal in the