The role of family function in locus of control of adolescent girls in Isfahan

Family is one of the most important elements to form human's personality. Source or locus of control is a of personality characteristics that important influence have on the individuals behavior, the formation and the human capacity to condition control and environmental events. Purpose of this study is to investigate the role of family function in locus of control of adolescent girls in Isfahan city.
This was a descriptive- correlational study. For this purpose, 355 of high school girl students were studying in first and second grades during 2014-2015 in Isfahan city that were selected by by multi-step cluster random Sampling. Data were collected by demographic characteristics questionnaire ,family assessment devices (FAD) and Levenson multi-dimensional locus of control .The reliability approved base on similar studies for family assessment devices by (Cronbach's alpha = 0.93) and multi-dimensional locus of control by Kuder–Richardson Formula 20 (KR-20) for dimention Internal (I), Powerful Others (P) and Chance were (C) o.52, 071 and 0.68, respectively.
Multiple regression analysis showed that between of family function dimentional were predictive role for emotional responses (B=-2.44, P=0.03) and role (B=2.49, P=0.03) of internal control. Family function dimentional have nt, predictive role for external control score.
The results indicate that family function had an average in majority of subjects and between dimensions were better performance in control of behavior, emotional responses and role.