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Peer reviewedMonaco, Nanci M.; Gentile, J. Ronald – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1987
This study was designed to test whether a learned helplessness treatment would decrease performance on mathematical tasks and to extend learned helplessness findings to include the cognitive development dimension. Results showed no differential advantages to either sex in resisting effects of learned helplessness or in benefiting from strategy…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Helplessness, High Schools, Locus of Control
