ABSTRACT
Acevedo (2005) defined fatalism as an attitude that is "associated with feelings of personal helplessness and vulnerability, resulting from an overwhelming external force that has a total control over personal action" (p. 78). It denotes the belief that whatever happens must happen (Bernstein, 1992, p.5). Fatalism has been found to be a valid cultural dimension by which countries vary in their degrees of endorsement (Aycan et al., 2000; Leung & Bond, 2004), and has been proposed to be related to excessive external controls, such as harsh economic environment and extreme government regulation, which decrease individuals' perceptions of personal control (Moaddel & Karabcnick, 2008).
