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learned helplessness

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learned helplessness
n
(Psychology) the act of giving up trying as a result of consistent failure to be rewarded in life, thought to be a cause of depression


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She may in fact have something called Learned Helplessness.
eIuIt differs with each age group and with teenagers, if theyeIUve been bullied since childhood, there is a sense of learned helplessness that theyeIUve accepted and iteIUs classes like this that can help them find a name for how they feel and learn new ways to change that.
That is, attributing outcomes to controllable factors has been consistently associated with high self-efficacy (Bandura, 1997; Haney & Long, 1995), while attributing outcomes to uncontrollable factors has been consistently associated with low self-efficacy and learned helplessness (Bandura, 1997; Seligman, 1975).
 
 
 
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