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Learned Helplessness as a Moderator in SES Stereotype Threat and Academic/Intellectual Disengagement
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Turchan, Joshua Edward – ProQuest LLC, 2016
On average fewer lower-SES students graduate from college compared to their higher-SES peers. SES-stereotype threat researchers have found evidence that when faced with a stereotype regarding SES, lower-SES students' academic/intellectual performance is negatively affected. Some research has shown that learned helplessness attributional styles may…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Helplessness, Stereotypes, Academic Achievement
My Intelligence May Be More Malleable than Yours: The Revised Implicit Theories of Intelligence (Self-Theory) Scale Is a Better Predictor of Achievement, Motivation, and Student Disengagement
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De Castella, Krista; Byrne, Donald – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2015
The belief that intelligence is malleable has important consequences for achievement and motivation (Blackwell et al. "Child Development," v78, p246-263. 2007; Dweck, 1999; Robins & Pals, "Self and Identity," v1, p313-336, 2002). However, believing that it is possible to improve intelligence does not necessarily mean…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intelligence, Self Esteem, Intelligence Tests
The Elimination of Learned Helplessness Deficits as a Function of Induced Self-Esteem.
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Orbach, Israel; Hadas, Ziva – Journal of Research in Personality, 1982
Tested efficiency of induced self-esteem in reducing various deficits caused by learned helplessness. Results indicated subjects who received induced self-esteem treatment showed significantly more deficit reversal. Results are discussed in relation to the usefulness of induced self-esteem as a form of treatment for helplessness depression.…
Descriptors: College Students, Depression (Psychology), Feedback, Foreign Countries
Depression in Child Psychiatric Inpatients: Cognitive and Attributional Patterns.
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Asarnow, Joan Rosenbaum; Bates, Susan – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 1988
In a study of 53 psychiatric inpatients (ages 6-13), depressed children reported significantly more hopelessness, more negative self-perceptions, negative self-perceptions across a wider variety of domains, and more dysfunctional attributional styles than nondepressed controls. Additional results suggested that childhood depressive disorders may…
Descriptors: Alienation, Cognitive Style, Depression (Psychology), Elementary Education
The Relationship of Self-Concept to Causal Attributions.
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Shaha, Steven H. – 1982
When people experience failures they search for an explanation of why the failure occurred. The process of seeking an explanatory cause is the basis of attribution theory. Causal attributions include the dimensions of locus of causality (internal or external), stability of the cause over time, and the degree of personal control over the outcome.…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Coping, Emotional Response, Failure
Self-Theories: Their Role in Motivation, Personality, and Development. Essays in Social Psychology.
Dweck, Carol S. – 2000
Based on extensive research with children and young adults, this book examines adaptive and maladaptive cognitive-motivational patterns and shows how these patterns originate in people's self theories; their consequences for one's achievement, social relationships, and emotional well-being; their consequences for society; and the experiences that…
Descriptors: Achievement, Child Development, Children, Cognitive Development