The Sensation seeking behavior is very common among adolescents as they most often desire for varied, novel, complex and intense sensations and experience, and are willing to take physical, social, legal and financial risks for the sake of such experience. The locus of control deals with the perception or belief about the degree of control people have over the events occurring in their lives. The objective of this research study is to identify the locus of control and sensation seeking behaviour among late adolescents. The sample comprised of 100 students, 50 girls and 50 boys each, belonging to the age group of 16 -18 years from urban locality. The tools used to assess locus of control and sensation seeking were Leven son’s Locus of Control scale and Zukerman’s Sensation Seeking Scale respectively. The statistical analysis was done using Independent Sample t-test. The Results indicated that there is no significant gender difference in the sensation seeking behavior among late adolescents but there were significant gender differences with findings that boys were found to have external locus of control.

Keywords: Locus of Control; Sensation Seeking; Late Adolescents.