A Cases Relationship Between Internal Locus Control and Vocational Maturity Among Students in Medan, Indonesia

Abstract

Nowadays, education is an unseperatble part of indivudials’ career succesfull. Vocational schools play an important role to increasing the chance to individuals get a future bright of their career life. The paper shows an effort to explain the relationship between internal locus of control with vocational maturity among vocational students in Medan, Indonesia. A total of 115 respondents were selected from 460 of total population in a public vocational school. Data were collected through a survey among the participants manually and the research employs the Pearson Correlation to analyze the data and test the hypothesis. Result pointed out that correlation coefficient r_xy = 0,562 with p value = 0.000 (p <0,050). In summary, the internal locus of control as the independent variable has a relationship with the vocational maturity.