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Parker, Patti C.; Perry, Raymond P.; Chipperfield, Judith G.; Hamm, Jeremy M.; Daniels, Lia M.; Dryden, Robert P. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2022
Research suggests that when dealing with personal setbacks, secondary control (SC) adjustment and acceptance beliefs can foster psychological wellbeing. However, little research has examined these beliefs, in combination, and how they impact students in their academic development. We conducted secondary analysis using an eight-month longitudinal…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, Well Being, Academic Achievement, Longitudinal Studies
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Eroglu, Yüksel; Akbaba, Sirri; Adigüzel, Orhan; Peker, Adem – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2014
Problem Statement: Research has indicated that some mothers can cope with stressful life conditions and continue their lives normally, whereas others are unable to overcome such challenging conditions. Recent research has shown that mothers of children with disabilities are likely to know more about why some mothers have relatively well-adjusted…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Coping, Mothers, Disabilities
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Qutaiba, Agbaria – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2011
Acquired or learned helplessness is one of the most popular research subjects reported in the psychological literature in recent decades. The present study examined the relationship between involvement in decision-making at the school and learned helplessness among special-education teachers in the Israeli Arab sector. The importance of this study…
Descriptors: Helplessness, Arabs, Correlation, Special Education Teachers
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Shors, Tracey J. – Learning & Memory, 2004
Stressful life events can have profound effects on our cognitive and motor abilities, from those that could be construed as adaptive to those not so. In this review, I discuss the general notion that acute stressful experience necessarily impairs our abilities to learn and remember. The effects of stress on operant conditioning, that is, learned…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Operant Conditioning, Helplessness, Classical Conditioning
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Bennett, David S.; Bates, John E. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 1995
Compared models of depressive symptoms in a 6-month prospective study of 95 nonreferred 11- to 13-year olds. Results showed that adolescents who perceived their parents, siblings, and friends as supportive, suffered fewer depressive symptoms. Life stress failed to correlate with concurrent depressive symptoms. Attributional style was primarily a…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Correlation, Depression (Psychology), Family Influence