KINE 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Internal Energy, Social Isolation, Externals
19 Jun 2019
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Mentally healthy individual: perceives reality as it is, carries out responsibilities, establishes and maintains close relationships. Feels a sense of fulfillment in daily living: accepts own limitations and possibilities, pursues work that suits talent and training, values himself/ herself. Internal energy and motivation: state of mind. Motivation and locus of control: motivation, comes from within, triggered by external factors. Locus of control: used to describe personality traits. Internal: high internal locus control is that they are in control of their own destiny and in charge of everything going on in their lives. Internal people who lack competence, efficacy, and opportunity can become neurotic, anxious, and depressed. In other words, internals need to have realistic sense of their circle of influence in order to experience "success: external, everything that happens around them is not their fault but the fault of others.
