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Maatta, Sami; Nurmi, Jari-Erik; Stattin, Hakan – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2007
This study set out to identify the kinds of achievement orientations that adolescents show, and to examine the kinds of antecedents and consequences the use of a particular orientation has. The participants were 734 Swedish adolescents (335 boys and 399 girls) who filled in questionnaires measuring their achievement beliefs and behaviors,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Swedish, Questionnaires, Multivariate Analysis

Camblin, Louise; Weinland, Laura – Social Work, 1987
Discusses the phenomenon of false fire alarms, the deliberate, intentional false reporting of fires, by mentally troubled persons as a primitive kind of help-seeking behavior. Several common themes found by reviewing false alarm cases are presented. Suggests that identifying the intrapsychic dynamics of false alarm reporters could be useful in…
Descriptors: Helplessness, Individual Needs, Mental Disorders, Personality Traits

Koegel, Robert L.; Mentis, Michelle – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 1985
Research suggests that motivation of autistic children can be increased and that this may be a crucial variable in the acquisition, generalization, and maintenance of their treatment gains. Discussion focuses on effects of failure on motivation, learned helplessness, shared control and increased success, and strategies for increasing exposure to…
Descriptors: Autism, Communication Problems, Failure, Helplessness

Levine, Grace Ferrari – Journalism Quarterly, 1986
Concludes that major market local television newscasts include substantial doses of helplessness, most of it at extreme levels. Specifically, members of the general public are often presented as helpless, and, by implication, so are television viewers. (FL)
Descriptors: Audiences, Helplessness, Information Sources, News Reporting

Kleinhammer-Tramill, P. Jeannie; And Others – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1983
Twenty-four learning disabled students (10 to 14 years old) assigned to three reward schedules (response contingent reward, 100 percent noncontingent reward, and 50 percent random noncontingent reward) were asked to replicate block designs and solve coding problems. No differences were found in errors, but Ss in noncontingent conditions…
Descriptors: Contingency Management, Elementary Education, Helplessness, Learning Disabilities

Au, Chung-park – Chinese University Education Journal, 1995
Introduces the concept of learned hopelessness, with special attention on its development from the helplessness theory of depression, and its application to studies of achievement motivation. Highlights conceptual and assessment issues that arise in researching learned hopelessness and achievement motivation. (DSK)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Depression (Psychology), Failure, Helplessness
Manners, Paula Jean; Russ, Marina – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2006
This article is about the feelings of powerlessness that professionals feel to cure learning disability and to answer questions such as "why do I have a learning disability?". We describe how Emma showed us through role play what it was like to have learning difficulties. This article is interesting to people with learning disabilities because…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Role Playing, Perspective Taking, Transformative Learning

Hayslip, Bert, Jr.; Stewart-Bussey, Duke – Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 1987
Correlational analysis suggested interactions among aspects of locus of control and aspects of death fear varying along the death/dying, self/other, and overt/covert continua. These data enable a more complete understanding of the role that perceived controllability of life events play in determining individual reactions to one's own or another's…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Correlation, Death, Fear

Donovan, Wilberta L.; Leavitt, Lewis A. – Child Development, 1985
Using a version of the "learned helplessness" paradigm, assesses mothers' performance on a solvable task following pretreatments that involved exposure to an infant cry but that differed in the mothers' ability to exert control over termination of the cry. Proposes that learned helplessness models are relevant to the study of…
Descriptors: Helplessness, Infants, Intervention, Mothers

Overton, Willis F.; Meehan, Anita M. – Child Development, 1982
In order to investigate sex-role identity and learned helplessness as possible mediating factors affecting performance on formal operational tasks, the responses of 60 male and female adolescents were assessed. Contrary to expectations, the performances of individuals with feminine versus masculine sex roles did not differ significantly.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Androgyny, Helplessness, Individual Differences

Klee, Steven; Meyer, Robert G. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1979
Explored prevention of learned helplessness through the use of thermal biofeedback training and varied explanations of performance. It was found that only in the biofeedback group receiving accurate feedback was there any prevention of the subsequent development of learned helplessness behavior. (Author)
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Development, Behavior Problems, Feedback
Case, Jennifer – Teaching in Higher Education, 2007
This article reports on an investigation of students' experiences of learning, using a framework that focuses on the concepts of alienation and engagement. Thirty-six third year chemical engineering students were interviewed about their learning experiences. Alienation is defined here as the absence of a relationship that students might desire or…
Descriptors: Chemical Engineering, Engineering Education, Student Experience, Discovery Processes
Wauchope, Barbara A. – 1988
This study tested the learned helplessness theory, stress theory, and a modified stress theory to determine the best model for predicting the probability that a woman would seek help when she experienced severe violence from a male partner. The probability was hypothesized to increase as the stress of the violence experienced increased. Data were…
Descriptors: Battered Women, Family Violence, Helplessness, Interpersonal Relationship
Calicchia, John P. – 1984
Investigations of the reformulated learned helplessness model of depression have produced conflicting results. To contrast the attributional responses of clinically depressed men and women, data were collected from 117 psychotherapy clinic outpatients. An expanded version of the Attribution Style Questionnaire was administered. Forty people…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Depression (Psychology), Helplessness, Models

Kihlstrom, John F.; Mineka, Susan – Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1978
Recent work has shown that unpredictable and/or uncontrollable events can produce a variety of cognitive, affective, and somatic disturbances to the organism. These disturbances are compared to and found to be quite similar to the symptoms of the classic cases of experimental neurosis described by Pavlov, Gantt, Liddell, Masserman, and Wolpe.…
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Helplessness, Neurosis, Psychological Studies