A Study on the Level of Hopelessness and Locus of Control: the Sample of Office Management Students of Vocational High School in Erzincan University

In this study the level of hopelessness, the locus of control and the relationship between them are investigated. the sample of the study was 110 students attending to the department of office management in erzincan university in 2011. to gather data beck’s hopelessness scale and rotter’s locus of control scale were used. according to the findings, the level of hopelessness of students is low and the internal locus of control of them is slightly high. another remarkable result is that there is a positive relationship between the level of hopelessness and the locus of control. the higher the level of hopelessness, the higher the external locus of control or the lower the level of hopelessness, the higher the internal locus of control is achieved.