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Walters, Elizabeth; And Others – 1983
The paper examines research on locus of control, learned helplessness, and attribution theory, and discusses the implications of the mentally retarded child's attitudes toward his or her successes. Studies are cited linking internal locus of control with achievement, and it is suggested that more attention should be paid to promoting students'…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Elementary Secondary Education, Helplessness, Locus of Control

Cole, Charles S.; Coyne, James C. – Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1977
Attempts to demonstrate performance impairments following exposure to an uncontrollable event, to investigate the effects of such exposure on mood, and examines the question of cross-situational generality of the induced impairments. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Generalization, Helplessness, Psychological Studies

Dintzer, Leonard; Wortman, Camille B. – Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1978
The reformulated learned helplessness model of depression (Abramson, Seligman, Teasdale 1978) was examined. Argues that unless it is possible to specify the conditions under which a given attribution will be made, the model becomes circular and lacks predictive power. Discusses Abramson et al.'s suggestions for therapy and prevention. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Critical Thinking, Depression (Psychology), Helplessness

Miller, Arden – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1986
Two experiments show that performance impairment after failure can occur in different ways, depending on the goals, values, self-perception, sex, presence of an observer, and other attributional tendencies of the individual responding to that failure. (JAZ)
Descriptors: Failure, Grade 7, Helplessness, Junior High Schools

Bardwell, Rebecca – Journal of Experimental Education, 1984
The motivational effects of failure were investigated. Students worked perceptual judgment problems, receiving varying levels of failure feedback on their work on unsolvable problems. Subjects assessed their success or failure at the task. Those who believed they had failed scored higher on a subsequent set of similar, but solvable, problems.…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Evaluative Thinking, Failure, Feedback

Smith, Nancy J.; Farina, Rosemarie Viola – Educational Considerations, 1984
In an historical examination of educational equity issues the authors examine why sex equity remains an unrealized goal, how teacher behavior affects equity, and why classrooms and campuses are not encouraging places for women. The lack of support for equity in the current political climate is also addressed. (SK)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Equal Education, Females, Helplessness

Dweck, Carol S.; Goetz, Therese E. – Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1980
Investigates the relationship between causal attributions and responses to social rejection across popularity levels, focusing on individual differences along each dimension. (Author/SS)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Children, Elementary School Students, Helplessness

Heyman, Gail D.; And Others – Child Development, 1992
Investigated the possibility that some kindergartners exhibit patterns of affective reactions associated with helplessness. Results indicated that, after they were criticized by their teachers, some kindergartners showed affective reactions and made self-evaluations associated with motivational helplessness. Reactions were related to conceptions…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Beliefs, Criticism, Helplessness

Lee, Kyung Hee – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 1999
Examined whether the mastery-oriented and helpless motivational patterns would be identified in Korean American kindergartners, and whether these patterns would be associated with general beliefs about goodness/badness. Found that Korean American children revealed more vulnerabilities in the face of negative feedback and they had more global,…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Child Behavior, Feedback, Helplessness

Maag, John W. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2002
This article presents an alternative to conceptualization for treating depression that focuses on manipulating context. Ten strategies based on this approach are described, including prescribing depression, creating an ordeal for relief, exaggerating helplessness, controlling the uncontrollable, making deliberate mistakes, buying it and throwing…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Counseling Techniques, Depression (Psychology), Elementary Secondary Education
Teich, Alan; Peregoy, Peter – 1982
According to the learned helplessness hypothesis, organisms exposed to uncontrollable events learn the independence between their responses and environmental outcomes. This learning is believed to interfere with subsequent behavior. To further examine the dimension of uncontrollability, 48 college students were given solvable, unsolvable, or…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Students, Emotional Problems, Helplessness

Dinning, W. David; Evans, Ronald G. – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1978
In critically reviewing learned helplessness literature, P. H. Blaney (1977) has noted that most of the current support for this model rests on studies that induce or reduce helplessness in college student Ss. This research, employing a psychiatric population, addressed two issues Blaney suggested as in need of clarification: (1) the role of…
Descriptors: Clinical Psychology, Depression (Psychology), Helplessness, Patients

And Others; Price, Kenneth P. – Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1978
This study was undertaken to extend the learned helplessness phenomenon to a clinical population and to test the competing hypotheses of Seligman and Lewinsohn. 96 male hospitalized psychiatric and medical patients were randomly assigned to one of four experimental conditions. Results replicate the learned helplessness phenomenon in a group of…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Helplessness, Hypothesis Testing, Illustrations

Blaney, Paul H.; Willis, Max H. – Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1978
Three studies, testing predictions derived from Seligman's helplessness model of depression and generally supported by earlier research, are reported. The first addressed the finding that depressed individuals evidence a perception of noncontingency, the second tested the prediction that undergraduates in whom helplessness had been induced would…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Experiments, Helplessness, Learning

Greer, John G.; Wethered, Chris E. – Elementary School Guidance and Counseling, 1987
Explores the topic of learned helplessness in children. Discusses these counselor strategies for helping children with learned helplessness: develop realistic attributions, provide feedback, provide success experiences, provide microcomputer experiences, and set realistic goals and expectations. (ABL)
Descriptors: Children, Counseling Objectives, Counseling Techniques, Elementary Education