Demographic Correlates of Locus of Control and Perceived Ladder of Success: A Study on Women Entrepreneurs (Manuscripts‪)‬

ABSTRACT The study examined some important demographic correlates such as, age, education, social category, year of experience, husband's and parents' education, previous occupation, and present occupation, family's income, membership in associations and training of locus of control of 32 women entrepreneurs in two metro cities in India. Locus of Control Scale (Rao, 1985), self-constructed scale to measure perceptions of present ladder of success and success rate were used for the present study. Results on Pearson's correlations revealed that a majority of women entrepreneurs had internal perceptions about taking up a challenging task and success in it. Only age had significant and positive correlation with locus of control. Perceptions of ladder of success at present had significant inverse correlations with father's previous and present occupation and significant positive correlations with success rate perceived by women entrepreneurs.