what are personal control beliefs? question 38 options: a) a form of psychosis associated with delusions of media influence often associated with substance use and serious mental illness b) a theory associated with eastern philosophy on the importance of transcendental meditation which are now attracting greater attention in the western world. c) the idea that the individual can dictate outcomes in a specific situation. d) the idea that life cannot be controlled in any way, shape or form and is set by conditions of historical circumstances completely out of our control. this is a theory associated with social and natural forms of determinism.