Cognitive Processes in Intimate Conflict: II. Efficacy and Learned Helplessness.

Doherty, William J.

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Publication Date: 1981

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Cognitive Processes in Intimate Conflict: II. Efficacy and Learned Helplessness.

Doherty, William J.

American Journal of Family Therapy, v9 n2 p35-44 Sum 1981

Presents the second part of a cognitive model of family conflict. Proposes that high efficacy enhances persistence in family problem solving while low efficacy inhibits such efforts, and that chronic low efficacy may lead to learned helplessness responses in family members. (Author)

Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Cognitive Processes, Conflict, Coping, Expectation, Family (Sociological Unit), Family Counseling, Family Relationship, Helplessness, Marital Instability, Problem Solving

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Language: English

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