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Vogel, Julie S.; Hurford, David P.; Smith, Janet V.; Cole, AmyKay – Adolescence, 2003
Study looked to determine the strength of the relationship between smoking, depression, intention to smoke, and several psychosocial and environmental factors. Participants completed the Multiscore Depression Inventory (MDI) and items regarding smoking behavior. Analyses found that participants were more likely to smoke if parents smoked, if…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Age Differences, Depression (Psychology)
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Thomas, Adele – Childhood Education, 1989
Summarizes prominent research-based perspectives on children's thinking about their own achievement. Identifies effective tactics for classroom intervention and teacher influence. (RJC)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attribution Theory, Children, Elementary Secondary Education
Cohen, LeoNora M. – Gifted Child Today (GCT), 1989
Through a case study of one gifted child, this article explores the themes of being in charge of oneself and one's environment, and of attempting to assimilate dangers in the world around them. Efforts to cope with and understand danger, from natural disaster to daily life, are closely examined. (PB)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Childhood Interests, Coping, Curiosity
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Marsh, Donald G. – B.C. Journal of Special Education, 1993
Drawing upon the works of Paulo Freire and Lev S. Vygotsky, this paper argues that the institution of special education inculcates helplessness rather than autonomy, discusses the cognitive behavior modifications that enable self-control and self-mediation of learning, and proposes the educational ideal of student empowerment and autonomy. (JDD)
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Disabilities, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
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Nolen-Hoeksema, Susan; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1995
Assessed helplessness behaviors in five- to seven-year-old children of mothers with and without depression. Found that, although mothers with depression set a more negative affective tone than mothers without depression during mother-child puzzle tasks, there were few significant differences between the two groups of mothers and children. (MDM)
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Depression (Psychology), Helplessness, Mothers
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Boggiano, Ann K.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1993
Examined the hypothesis that processes other than those related to concepts about ability produce helplessness in children younger than 10. Found that eight year olds did not experience helplessness in response to feedback about their failure in an achievement task but did experience helplessness when they failed to perform a physical task. (MM)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary Education, Emotional Response, Helplessness
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Settle, Shirley A.; Milich, Richard – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1999
This study examined the response of intermediate-grade boys (N=18) and girls (N=20) with (N=20) or without (N=18) learning disabilities (LD) to experimental dyadic interactions, either friendly or unfriendly. Children with LD were hypersensitive to both situations and girls with LD appeared most negatively affected by the unfriendly interaction.…
Descriptors: Helplessness, Interaction Process Analysis, Intermediate Grades, Interpersonal Competence
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Schmidt-Atzert, Lothar; Park, Hyun-Sook – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1999
Explored the Korean concepts of emotion "dapdaphada" and "uulhada," somewhat equivalent to helplessness and depression, respectively. Results with 50 Korean and 50 German undergraduates indicate that these terms are specific emotion words in the domain of sadness with no translation equivalent in German. (SLD)
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Depression (Psychology), Emotional Response
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Chan, Lorna K. S. – Journal of Research in Reading, 1996
Finds that teaching 13-year-old poor readers to use effective reading strategies convinced them that reading successes and failures were attributable to use of effective or ineffective strategies; improved their comprehension performance and increased use of reading strategies; and reduced their perceptions of learned helplessness. (RS)
Descriptors: Helplessness, Junior High Schools, Low Achievement, Reading Achievement
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Walker, Karen – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2004
Underpinning the practice of career counsellors is a range of various theories and perspectives. The concept of self-esteem is a term frequently used by those in the helping professions and often with little regard for its limitations. This article argues that careers counsellors need to keep up-to-date with evolving theories that inform their…
Descriptors: Helplessness, Self Efficacy, Locus of Control, Self Esteem
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Kavale, Kenneth A.; Mostert, Mark P. – Behavioral Disorders, 2004
Sutherland and Singh (2004) focus on the relationship between students' inappropriate behaviors and academic failure, articulating how this relationship may be mediated by learned helplessness in a reciprocally negative reinforcing cycle. In responding to their work, the authors suggest a thread of disciplined inquiry and contextual framework for…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Behavior Disorders, Helplessness, Learning Disabilities
Leggett, Ellen L.; Dweck, Carol S. – 1987
Individual differences in same-aged children's reasoning about effort and ability, as well as the consequences of different forms of reasoning in actual achievement situations, were investigated. It was hypothesized that different forms of children's reasoning would be related to different (helpless versus mastery-oriented) motivational patterns.…
Descriptors: Ability, Adolescents, Attribution Theory, Cognitive Development
Perry, Raymond P.; Dickens, Wenda J. – 1983
The effects of contingency training, instructor expressiveness, and student incentives on student achievement and attributions were investigated in a simulated college classroom. The following conditions were involved: a contingency manipulation resembling an aptitude test; an instructor lecture; two levels of student incentive; and an achievement…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Feedback, Helplessness, Higher Education
Kalyan-Masih, V.; And Others – 1988
An exploratory study investigated the relationship between loneliness, coping strategies, and cognitive styles in a sample of 52 gifted students from rural Nebraska (mean age 17.25 years). Assessment measures consisted of the Woodward Loneliness Inventory, the Kalyan-Masih Coping Inventory I, and the Group Embedded Figures Test (GEFT), which…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Style, Coping, Emotional Adjustment
Frankel, Arthur; Snyder, Mel L. – 1987
The reluctance of depressed people to try hard may result not from their low expectancy for success, as Learned Helplessness Theory suggests, but rather from egotistic motivation to preserve whatever self-esteem they still have. Two studies were conducted using a paradigm which permitted a direct comparison of Learned Helplessness Theory and…
Descriptors: Achievement, Attribution Theory, College Students, Depression (Psychology)
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