Review of Personal Effectiveness with Locus of Control
(ROPELOC)
The Life Effectiveness Questionnaire (LEQ) has continued to undergo development.
Garry Richards has led the way again by recently designing a new version,
called the Review of Personal Effectiveness with Locus of Control (ROPELOC), which includes several new
scales and several reworked scales from the LEQ. Psychometric testing of the
ROPELOC has been completed (Richards,
Ellis, & Neill, 2002).
The ROPELOC instrument measures key
psychological and behavioural domains that constitute “life effectiveness”. It
is specifically designed to be sensitive to the effects of experience-based
intervention programs.
The ROPELOC instrument contains 14 scales; including
personal abilities and beliefs (Self-Confidence, Self-Efficacy, Stress
Management, Open Thinking), social abilities (Social Effectiveness,
Cooperative Teamwork, Leadership Ability), organisational skills (Time
Management, Quality Seeking, Coping with Change) an “energy” scale called
Active Involvement and a measure of overall effectiveness in all aspects of
life.
The two Locus of Control scales measure the person’s tendency to take
responsibility for his/her actions and successes or to see external controls
determining actions. The LOC is an optional part of the ROPE system but is
usually used, as it is a very useful indicator of likely behaviour even though
it is not behaviourally based, as are the other scales of the ROPE. The
instrument consists of 3 items per scale, all of which are rated on a scale of
“1-False, Not like me” to “8-True, Like me”.
The ROPELOC has good internal consistency
estimates (Cronbach’s alpha), ranging from .79 to .93, and a well-defined
factor structure as shown with exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses.
Factor structure and reliabilities are consistent over age and gender.
Conditions of Use for the ROPELOC
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This
instrument is to be used as presented with the instructions as printed unless
approval to vary the instrument or instructions has been granted by the
authors.
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It is a condition of
the use of the ROPELOC that any data collected using it will be made available
to the authors. Should this lead to any publication, the researchers
collecting the data using the ROPELOC, will either be acknowledged as
contributors or co-authors depending on the degree to which the data is
important in the prospective publication.
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Should some
particular issue arise, such as research grant restrictions or copyright
issues surrounding research involving the use of the ROPELOC, and should such
issues cause it to be undesirable that the particular data be identified in
its source, or published as a whole or a part of an independent study, then
this should be brought to the attention of the authors. Such situations will
be respected, however, the requirement for production of the data will remain.
In these cases the data will be used only for psychometric evaluation and for
addition to norms etc but will not be identified as a separate data set in any
publication.
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Reference
Richards, G. E , Ellis, L. A., Neill, J. T.
(2002).
The ROPELOC: Review of Personal Effectiveness and Locus of Control: A
comprehensive instrument for reviewing life effectiveness. Paper
presented at Self-Concept Research: Driving International Research Agendas,
6-8 August, Sydney. [.pdf] |