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Israelite, Neita; Ower, Janet – CAEDHH Journal/La Revue ACESM, 1998
This article considers the wider educational needs of adolescents with hearing impairments. The lack of consideration for these adolescents is discussed first and then related to the socioemotional factors that relate to adolescence in general. Particular factors like locus of control, learned helplessness, and current educational trends are…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Classroom Techniques, Educational Trends, Emotional Problems

Richards, Barbara M. – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2000
Explores the experience of psychotherapists (N=100) working with suicidal patients. Findings indicate that suicidal patients can evoke intense feelings within the therapist. Commonly mentioned responses include feelings of hopelessness and helplessness and a sense of failure. Outlines measures vital to the support of therapists and discusses the…
Descriptors: Client Characteristics (Human Services), Counselor Attitudes, Counselor Client Relationship, Counselor Role

Gibb, Brandon E.; Alloy, Lauren B.; Abramson, Lyn Y.; Rose, Donna T.; Whitehouse, Wayne G.; Hogan, Michael E. – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2001
This study evaluates the ability of the hopelessness theory of depression's etiological chain to account for this relation in a sample of 297 undergraduates. Results indicated that emotional, but not physical or sexual, maltreatment was uniquely related to average levels of suicidal ideation across a 2.5-year follow-up. (Author)
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Child Abuse, College Students, Depression (Psychology)
Tsovili, Theodora D. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2004
The aim of the present study was to investigate the role anxiety plays in the lives of adolescents with dyslexia by including a school perspective with special emphasis on the role of the teacher. The state-trait anxiety of 68 adolescents with dyslexia and their language teachers' attitudes towards them were compared with an equal number of…
Descriptors: Well Being, Adolescents, Language Teachers, Helplessness
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
Hartman, David E.; McKirnan, David J. – 1983
Recent models of depression have shown differences in information processing to be important concomitants of depressed affect. To determine whether the cognitive distortion found in depressed individuals extends beyond self-evaluation and interpersonal evaluation into abstract decision making, 288 college students completed the Beck Depression…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Cognitive Style, College Students, Decision Making
Solomon, Judith; George, Carol – 1990
Findings of a study on the relation between 6-year-olds' attachment security and their mental representations of attachment relationships are reported. It was expected that infants whose attachment behavior seemed disorganized would be fearful of their attachment figures and experience themselves as helpless, and that these conditions would be…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Conflict, Ethology
Atkinson, Leslie; And Others – 1987
Attributional style as it has been operationalized in the Attributional Style Questionnaire (ASQ) was critically assessed. A sample of 538 senior high school and college students completed the ASQ. The resulting ASQ data were then intercorrelated, factor analyzed, and compared to hypothesized matrices for all items, good outcome items, and bad…
Descriptors: College Students, Correlation, Depression (Psychology), Factor Analysis
The Attribution of Universal or Personal Helplessness in Nondepressed and Depressed Elderly Females.
Maiden, Robert J. – 1981
The potential for feelings of hopelessness and depression in the aged is well documented. Although studies have examined the role of perceived control in ameliorating depression in the institutionalized elderly, no research has actually measured the perceived causal attributions among depressed, hopeless and/or institutionalized elderly…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Cognitive Processes, Depression (Psychology), Failure
Patrick, Linda F.; Moore, Janet S. – 1985
The reformulated learned helplessness model for the prediction of depression has been investigated extensively in young adults. Results have linked attributions made to undesirable, controllable events to depression in this age group. This reformulated model was investigated in 97 elderly women and was contrasted to the original learned…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Attribution Theory, Depression (Psychology), Females
Anderson, Jeff; And Others – 1984
Many elderly persons suffer abuse and neglect from which they cannot escape. Questions concerning the extent of elder abuse, the kinds of abuse, and underlying factors associated with elder abuse in Texas were explored in a survey of professionals most likely to encounter elder abuse in their work. Questionnaires (1,508) were mailed to agencies…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Elder Abuse, Family Violence, Gerontology
Kramer, Miriam E.; Rosellini, Robert A. – 1981
Learned helplessness has recently incorporated attribution theory to predict the specific occurrence/nonoccurrence of the motivational, cognitive and affective deficits characteristic of helplessness. College students (N=50) participated in a study to investigate the effects of a personal-universal helplessness manipulation on subsequent task…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Cognitive Processes, Emotional Problems, Emotional Response
Brock, Herman B.; Kowitz, Gerald T. – 1980
The research literature on learned helplessness in exceptional children is reviewed and the authors' efforts to identify and retrain learning disabled (LD) children who have characteristics typical of learned helplessness are reported. Twenty-eight elementary aged LD children viewed as "learned helpless" were randomly assigned to one of four…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attribution Theory, Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research
Noel, Nora E.; Lisman, Stephen A. – 1977
Widely held cultural beliefs assert that alcohol can offer both an ameliorative and preventive solution to the problem of depression. This study attempted to assess the effects of learned helplessness--a possible laboratory analog to reactive depression--on alcohol consumption. Thirty-eight female undergraduates were randomly assigned (within…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Alcoholic Beverages, Anxiety, College Students
Molesky, Jean – Migration World, 1986
The rapidly increasing numbers of Central American refugees in the United States include many whose sufferings have led to severe psychological problems. The article attempts to lay a foundation for assisting them by discussing the following: (1) origins of disorders; (2) culture shock and stress; (3) prevalence of symptoms; and (4) suggestions…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Anxiety, Culture Conflict, Emotional Disturbances