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LOC LOC stands for locus of control, a psychological construct assessed in research and the social sciences.

LOC stands for locus of control, a psychological construct assessed in research and the social sciences. In this packet, it refers to something that can be screened with the IE-4 short scale and is treated as a single underlying dimension when response-style bias is taken into account.

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Drafting source: Petrowski Katja; Duhm Julian; Renner Vanessa; Schmalbach Bjarne; Strauß Bernhard; Brähler Elmar. Psychometricre-evaluation of the locus of control short scale (IE-4) in the German general population: evidence of acquiescence bias. 2026; DOI 10.1186/s40359-026-05101-4; article XML SHA-256 28285b241c61994e26b0608eb8a612aa8684ae59b5d1b6374cd3dffb9d580139. “Psychometricre-evaluation of the locus of control short scale (IE-4) in the German general population: evidence of acquiescence bias” (10.1186/s40359-026-05101-4).
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