Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Management

The Relationship between Individual Innovativeness and Locus of Control: A Research on Tourism Faculty Students
Sibel SÜ ERÖZ

Abstract
The main purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between individual innovativeness and locus of control. In this contex, first investigating the individual innovativeness and locus of control in the literature and try to identified. In order to determine the relationship between the individual innovativeness and locus of control; implemented a survey to the tourism management students of Tourism Faculty in Kirklareli University who educated academic year of the 2015-2016 and 183 students were reached. A questionnaire, as a data collection tool used in this research, which was composed of three parts. The first part of the questionnaire included demographic information of the participants; the second part included “Individual Innovativeness Scale” developed by Hurt, Joseph & Cook (1977) and adopted into Turkish culture by Kiliçer & Odabasi (2010) the last part of the questionnaire included “Internal-External Locus of Control Scale” developed by Rotter (1966) and adopted into Turkish culture by Dag (1991). The data obtained from the research was analyzed by the statistical software package SPSS 22 (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences for Windows 20) is used.

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