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Smiley, Patricia A.; Dweck, Carol S. – Child Development, 1994
Tested on preschoolers a goal-confidence model for older children that predicts achievement behavior during failure. Found that individual differences in achievement goals emerge very early. Children appeared to have developed a mechanism for selecting learning opportunities prior to formal school experience. (AA)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Child Development, Goal Orientation

Moilanen, Donna L. – Journal of Counseling & Development, 1995
Examined Beck's cognitive theory by analyzing relationships between depressive symptomatology and various measures of distorted, negative cognitive processes. Results demonstrated that high school students' greater levels of depressive symptomatology on the Beck Depression Inventory were most significantly associated with higher scores on both the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Psychology, Depression (Psychology)

Wieschenberg, Agnes Arvai – College Teaching, 1994
A discussion of mathematics anxiety and learned helplessness in mathematics focuses on student failure and avoidance in college mathematics learning. It explores possible causes and suggests classroom activities to foster students' interest and success. (MSE)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, College Mathematics

DeMaris, Alfred; Swinford, Steven – Family Relations, 1996
Employed data from the National Family Violence Survey to explore predictors of fear of future abuse among married or cohabitating women (n=356) whose partners abused them. Fear was higher in women whose partners initiated the violence; subjected them to forced sex or; made them afraid to retaliate in violence. (SNR)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Battered Women, Family Environment, Family Violence

Ziegert, Dannah I.; Kistner, Janet A.; Castro, Rafael; Robertson, Bruce – Child Development, 2001
Three studies replicated and extended Dweck's findings regarding young children's responses to challenging achievement situations. Findings indicated that a composite of cognitive, behavioral, and affective helplessness indices at kindergarten age predicted helplessness 1 and 5 years later, above and beyond gender and kindergarten task ability.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Followup Studies, Helplessness
Lindberg, Inger – Language Awareness, 2003
Awareness about second language learning and use is a concern of second language learners as well as native speakers of the majority language. The need for awareness-raising among majority language speakers is, however, not generally acknowledged. Native speakers are often ignorant of important cognitive as well as sociocultural and affective…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Helplessness, Metalinguistics, Second Language Learning
Sideridis, Georgios D. – International Journal of Educational Research, 2003
The purpose of the present study was to examine the presence of helplessness in students with learning difficulties (LD), and evaluate the role of goal orientations as antecedents of helplessness, negative affect, and psychopathology. Following induction of failure, results suggested that students with LD displayed increased negative affectivity,…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Helplessness, Learning Disabilities, Psychopathology
Kidd, Sean A. – Youth & Society, 2006
Homeless youth are a population at a high risk for suicidal behavior. A previous exploratory study emphasized the importance of feeling trapped or helpless, which appeared to mediate the impact of other risk variables. Confirmatory work was needed to test this inductively derived model. Two hundred eight homeless youths completed surveys on the…
Descriptors: Suicide, Homeless People, Youth, At Risk Persons
Pierce, Margaret Anne; Henry, John W. – 1993
This study examines the effectiveness of multiple methods of soliciting attributions. The Attributional Style Questionnaire, specific attributions, and causal dimensions are used to predict the grades and feelings of frustration of college algebra students. The results show that, contrary to current theoretical work, both specific attributions and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Algebra, Attribution Theory, Causal Models
Jolley, Janina M. – 1982
Relatively little research exists on the relationship between adaptability and the structural aspects of self. The research that does exist suggests that a more mature personality, i.e., a self that is differentiated and integrated, has a greater capacity to adapt to crises. To identify the empirical relationship between three structural…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Development, Age Differences, Helplessness
Thomas, Adele K. – 1980
The study examined learned helplessness in approximately 200 elementary aged learning disabled (LD) students and the effectiveness of classroom based attribution training and coping skills training for these children. Ss received one half hour training 3 days a week for 5 weeks in a program which used techniques of modeling, direct instruction,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Coping, Elementary Education, Helplessness
Welch, Renate L. – 1978
Using Seligman's "learned helplessness" paradigm, androgynous and feminine women (as defined by the Bem Sex Role Inventory) either succeeded (contingent feedback) or failed (non-contingent feedback) at a concept formation task and were provided with internal (ability, effort), external (task difficulty, luck), or no causal attributions for their…
Descriptors: Ability, Achievement, Androgyny, Attribution Theory
Sparta, Steven N. – 1979
Some children exhibit a pattern of debilitating behavior characterized as helplessness. Within an achievement context, such children can be observed to initiate few constructive activities, to work with little intensity on those activities already attempted, and to persist at a task only moderately--especially following failure. A stratified…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attribution Theory, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns
Rothblum, Esther D.; Green, Leon – 1980
Abramson, Seligman and Teasdale's reformulated model of learned helplessness hypothesized that an attribution of causality intervenes between the perception of noncontingency and the future expectation of future noncontingency. To test this model, relationships between attribution and performance under failure, success, and control conditions were…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Attribution Theory, Depression (Psychology), Expectation

Ewert, Alan – Journal of Environmental Education, 1986
Addresses the relationship of fear to certain outdoor adventure activities that are a part of some environmental education programs. Describes the construct of fear, its use in outdoor environmental programs, and the results of two recent studies on fear. (TW)
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Anxiety, Environmental Education, Experiential Learning