Locus of Control, Stress and Performance 128 The Influence of Locus of Control and Stress on Performance

The purpose of this study was to observe whether there is a relationship between locus of control, stress and performance. The hypothesis was that individuals witlj an internal locus of control will experience less perceiveff stress and thus will be capable of more successful task performance that individuals with an external locus of control. 40 third-year undergraduate students at the Huron University College participated in the study. Each participant was presented with an eight-page booklet that included a letter of information, a consent form as well as a debriefing form. Each booklet also contained Rotter's I-E scale to measure for externality, an anagram task, and a scale measuring perceived stress. Half of the booklets included a time constraint of two minutes for the anagram task. A 2 X 2 between-subjects ANOVA showed that ther