Abstract

The study investigated Locus of Control and Resilience as determinants of Psychological Well-being among students. Two hundred and ten (210) participants made up of one hundred males (100) and one hundred and ten (110) females of first year and final year students were drawn from selected department in the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, Ebonyi State University, using a purposive sampling technique. Their ages range from 18-29 years. The Subjective Well-Being Scale (SWBS) developed by Onyeizugbo (2011), The Locus of Control Behaviour Scale developed by Craig, Franklin and Andrews (1984) and The 14-Item Resilience Scale (RS-14) developed by Wagnild and Young (1993) were distributed to the participants which was used to generate data. A cross sectional design was used for the study and data analyzed with multiple regression statistics. Two alternate hypotheses were formulated and tested. The result showed that Locus of Control was weakly related to Psychological Well-Being while Resilience was strongly related to Psychological Well-Being at (r=.09, p<.05) and (r=.15, p<.001) respectively. Whereas on the part of the regression analysis, Locus of Control failed to determine Psychological Well-Being. However Resilience actually determined Psychological Well-Being. Therefore from the findings of this study, one could say that Resilience play a significant role in determining Psychological Well-Being.