After taking the LOC questionnaire, I calculated my score to be a 15. I found this somewhat surprising, because I am usually internally locus and believe individuals’ decisions play a MAJOR role in the outcomes of their life. In the past, I listened to a podcast on Spotify called “How I Built This.” The podcast interviewed different entrepreneurs about how they founded their businesses, how the scaled it from 1 to 100 million dollars, and so on. One thing that stuck out to me listening to this podcast was how every entrepreneur stated they worked harder than anyone they knew AND they had a tremendous amount of luck along the way. I think this speaks volumes of how success can come about in mysterious ways and I find this to be true in my own life as well. All in all, my score of 15 was weighted more towards externally locus; which I think can eb and flow depending on a multitude of different factors. I do believe that there are things in this world that are out of our control; however, I wholeheartedly believe the decisions we make will influence the outcomes of our life.
After reading the supplemental income, I believe we should fully understand LOC for patients and other therapists. It is important to understand a patient’s LOC to know how to properly decision their intervention plan and know what would challenge them. If a patient is internally locus then we could understand they are motivated and will work strenuously to regain their abilities. However, the externally locus patient could play the victim during therapy, work, and other areas of their life. This is so important to understand even during our basic, everyday interactions with our patients.
In conclusion, I believe it will help us become better therapists to understand locus of control in our patients and fellow employees. I think designing a patient’s intervention/plan of care will be impacted by understanding this. A patient that is externally locus will not respond well if we are blaming them for a slower progression in rehab. This may require us to be creative in our treatment design and responses to their comments.
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