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Peterson, Christopher; And Others – 1995
Experiences with uncontrollable events may lead to the expectation that future events will elude control, resulting in disruptions in motivation, emotion, and learning. This text explores this phenomenon, termed learned helplessness, tracking it from its discovery to its entrenchment in the psychological canon. The volume summarizes and integrates…
Descriptors: Apathy, Attribution Theory, Depression (Psychology), Emotional Problems
Flanagan, Robin – 1996
Much of the research on classroom use of educational media has been hampered by difficulties in isolating a single element of the medium--television programming, for instance--that influences behavior in a reliable way. Still, each medium facilitates a particular type of learning environment, and the collective characteristics of those…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Educational Media, Educational Research, Educational Television
Brophy, Jere; Rohrkemper, Mary – 1989
Experienced elementary teachers (N=98) described their general strategies for coping with failure syndrome students and told how they would handle incidents depicted in two vignettes portraying failure syndrome problems at school. Compared to their responses concerning some of the other problem student types addressed in the Classroom Strategy…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Cognitive Restructuring, Elementary Education, Helplessness
Muzekari, Louis H.; And Others – 1990
This paper reports the effects of Hurricane Hugo on mental health workers and indigenous community members. The response and perceptions of mental health staff from the South Carolina Department of Mental Health (Go Teams) from areas unaffected by the hurricane were compared and contrasted with those of a subsequent Hugo Outreach Support Team…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Coordination, Community Involvement, Community Support
Banziger, George; Roush, Sharon – 1982
Many gerontologists have noted the tendency of nursing homes to nurture dependency and learned helplessness in residents. To test the effectiveness of a control-relevant intervention strategy, nursing home residents (N=40) were given the opportunity to care for wild birds by tending individually placed bird feeders. Residents were assigned to one…
Descriptors: Gerontology, Helplessness, Individual Power, Intervention
Tollefson, Nona – 1982
A reformulated theory of learned helplessness posits that helplessness may be the outcome of a learning disabled (LD) student's belief of personal or universal helplessness. Motivational, cognitive, and emotional deficits may result. Research on locus of control and persistence as well as on the contrast between mastery (achievement)-oriented…
Descriptors: Achievement, Attribution Theory, Helplessness, Learning Disabilities
Solomon, Kenneth – 1978
The literature on attitudes of health workers toward the elderly suggests three variables as contributing to the elderly patient's perception of helplessness in the health care setting. First, the health worker may age-stereotype the elderly person as dependent, low in competence, and unlikely to respond to treatment. Secondly, the disparity in…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Counselor Attitudes, Health Personnel, Helping Relationship
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Dweck, Carol S. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1976
Examines ways in which social cues, in conjunction with a child's history, influence the child's interpretation of and reaction to failure feedback in evaluative settings. It is suggested that the way in which a child reacts to another's behavior is largely dependent upon subtle but powerful social cues within situation. (JH)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Failure, Feedback
Kirova, Anna – 2001
The increase in global mobility has brought about the recent increase in the number of students who are not from the majority culture in classrooms across the United States and Canada and who report experiencing loneliness and social isolation. The students' loss of self-esteem and the development of learned helplessness are directly related to…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
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Balk, David – Journal of School Health, 1983
The author reviews literature on childrens' reactions to perceived failure and offers "learned helplessness" as a model to explain why a child who makes a mistake gives up. Suggestions for preventing these reactions are given. (Author/JMK)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Failure, Helplessness, Psychological Patterns
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Priddy, J. Michael; And Others – Educational Gerontology, 1982
Relates the theory of learned helplessness to the losses of aging, and describes a brief experiential training program for service providers, teaching interpersonal skills useful in working with the depressed elderly. Focuses on reducing helplessness by allowing the elderly to have impact within the counseling interaction. (RC)
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Counseling Techniques, Counselor Training, Depression (Psychology)
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Parsons, Jacquelynne Eccles – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 1982
Over 300 students assessed their causal attributions and expectations for success and failure in mathematics, and their self concepts of math ability. Results varied, depending on research method employed, but did not when taken together support the hypothesis that girls are more learned helpless in mathematics than are boys. (Author/GC)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attribution Theory, Children, Elementary Secondary Education
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Thomas, Adele – Review of Educational Research, 1979
Learned helplessness is a state of passivity and loss of persistence resulting from individuals' perceptions, over a period of time, that they cannot control outcomes of events nor can their efforts lead to attainment of goals. Research studies are reviewed and implications for the study of learning disabilities are evaluated. (MH)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Educational Research, Expectation, Failure
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Miranda, Ana; Villaescusa, Maria Isabel; Vidal-Abarca, Eduardo – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1997
This study investigated the need to include explicit attributional retraining in a program designed to teach self-regulation reading comprehension strategies to 60 Spanish children (grades 5-6) with learning disabilities. Regardless of attributional retraining, children improved on measures of cognitive strategies, but their gains were very low on…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Educational Strategies, Foreign Countries, Helplessness
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Fincham, Frank D.; And Others – Child Development, 1989
Examines the stability of individual differences in test anxiety and learned helplessness of 82 children in third grade and later in fifth grade. Results indicate that teacher reports of helplessness had the strongest and most consistent relation to concurrent achievement and to achievement test scores two years later. (RJC)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
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