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Peer reviewedAnd Others; DeVellis, Robert F. – Journal Of Personality And Social Psychology, 1978
Reports a study conducted to determine whether individuals who observed others experiencing noncontingency would develop learned helplessness vicariously. Subjects were 75 college female undergraduates. (MP)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, College Students, Contingency Management, Females
Peer reviewedDeVellis, Robert F. – Mental Retardation, 1977
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Helplessness, Institutional Environment, Institutionalized Persons
Download full textDeVellis, Robert F.; And Others – 1980
The occurrence of unpredictable and often unavoidable aversive seizures in epilepsy bears a striking resemblance to the conditions known to induce learned helplessness. Additionally, depression and other characteristics associated with helplessness seem to occur more frequently among persons with epilepsy. Data from a national survey of…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Patterns, Depression (Psychology), Emotional Problems
