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ERIC Number: EJ628789
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2001
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ISSN: ISSN-0031-3831
Learned Helplessness and Psychological Adjustment: Effects of Age, Gender and Academic Achievement.
Valas, Harald
Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, v45 n1 p71-90 Mar 2001
Studied the relationships among academic achievement, learned helplessness, and psychological adjustment (self-esteem and depression), controlled for gender and age, for 1,580 students with data collected in grades 3 and 4, 6 and 7, and 8 and 9. Results show that academic achievement is directly and indirectly related to the pattern of attributions, expectations, helplessness, and psychological adjustment. Discusses sex differences in learned helplessness. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Age Differences, Attribution Theory, Depression (Psychology), Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Helplessness, Self Esteem, Sex Differences
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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