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An Integration of Quadripartite and Helplessness-Hopelessness Models of Depression Using the Turkish Version of the Learned Helplessness Scale (LHS)
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Boysan, Murat – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2020
The main focus of this study was to investigate links between the diathesis-stress hypotheses of the quadripartite model and the helplessness-hopelessness theory of depression. Simultaneously the study tested the psychometric properties of the Turkish version of the Learned Helplessness Scale (LHS). To this end, the LHS was initially administered…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Depression (Psychology), Measures (Individuals), Anxiety
Cyber-Victimization and Perceived Depression: Serial Mediation of Self-Esteem and Learned-Helplessness
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Prihadi, Kususanto; Hui, Yen Ling; Chua, Melissa; Chang, Calvin K. W. – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2019
Literature suggests that the perception of being cyber-victimized is a stronger predictor of depression symptoms than the perception of being victimized offline, and that learned-helplessness can explain the prediction of perceived cyber-victimization on perceived depression. Nevertheless, other studies suggested that the link between perceived…
Descriptors: Bullying, Victims, Depression (Psychology), Computer Mediated Communication
Cognitive Defusion versus thought Distraction in the Mitigation of Learned Helplessness
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Hooper, Nic; McHugh, Louise – Psychological Record, 2013
Recent research suggests that attempting to avoid unwanted psychological events is maladaptive. Contrastingly, cognitive defusion, which is an acceptance-based method for managing unwanted thoughts, may provide a plausible alternative. The current study was designed to compare defusion and experiential avoidance as strategies for coping with…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Coping, Helplessness, Cognitive Processes
An Attempt to Reverse Performance Deficits Associated With Depression and Experimentally Induced Helplessness
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Kilpatrick-Tabak, Blair; Roth, Susan – Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1978
The learned helplessness model of depression predicts that any effective treatment for reactive depression should also reverse performance deficits associated with experimentally induced helplessness, and vice versa. This study tests that prediction with college students who were exposed to experimental manipulations designed to induce…
Descriptors: College Students, Depression (Psychology), Helplessness, Performance Factors
Validity of Beck's Cognitive Theory of Depression with Nonreferred Adolescents.
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Moilanen, Donna L. – Journal of Counseling & Development, 1995
Examined Beck's cognitive theory by analyzing relationships between depressive symptomatology and various measures of distorted, negative cognitive processes. Results demonstrated that high school students' greater levels of depressive symptomatology on the Beck Depression Inventory were most significantly associated with higher scores on both the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Psychology, Depression (Psychology)
Sex Differences in Locus of Control, Helplessness, Hopelessness, and Depression.
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Kolotkin, Richard A.; And Others – 1994
This experiment investigated: (1) relationships among locus of control, attributional style, and depression; (2) if a depressogenic attributional style could be empirically isolated; and (3) if reliable relationships existed between attribution and depression when depression was operationalized using different instruments. Subjects completed the…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Cognitive Style, Depression (Psychology), Helplessness