Actualising sustainability: Understanding and measuring the role of sustainability locus of control in educational contexts

My study aims to explore the conceptual foundations of sustainability locus of control as a construct and to develop a sustainability locus of control scale for use with Australian adolescents. By utilising a four-phase mixed-method and Rasch modelling, I developed a new theoretical framework about locus of control and a Sustainability Actualisation Questionnaire, which consists of five scales: Procedural Knowledge, Self-Efficacy, Internal Sustainability Locus of Control, External Sustainability Locus of Control, and Action. Findings show these scales aid research-based practice development focussing on how different environmental and sustainability education might develop students’ procedural knowledge, self-efficacy, locus of control and action.