Human Learned Helplessness: A Coping Perspective

by Mario Mikulincer

Overview

Summarizing 25 years of research, the author integrates virtually the entire published literature on the phenomenon of learned helplessness, as well as some unpublished data, into a single coherent theoretical framework. Dr. Mikulincer accounts for the complex nature of the phenomenon by focusing on cognitive, motivational, and emotional processes, and then details a new coping perspective to deal with uncontrollable events. His groundbreaking work will become an essential reference for all future work in the field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781489909381
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	07/18/2013
Series:	The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology
Edition description:	1994
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

1 The Empirical and Theoretical Basis of Human Learned Helplessness.- 2 Coping Strategies as Proximal Mediators of LH Effects.- 3 Mental Rumination as a Proximal Mediator of LH Effects.- 4 The Expectancy of Control as a Distal Mediator of LH Effects.- 5 Emotional Arousal as a Distal Mediator of LH Effects.- 6 Perceived Task Value as a Moderator of LH Effects.- 7 Self-Focused Attention as a Moderator of LH Effects.- 8 A Coping Perspective of Human Learned Helplessness.- References.

Editorial Reviews

Focuses on the cognitive, motivational, and emotional processes that intervene between repeated exposure to uncontrollable events and subsequent helplessness behavior, and presents a new framework for viewing the phenomenon that assumes that the underlying cause of learned helplessness (LH) is a disruption in the person-environment equilibrium brought on by the exposure to uncontrollable events. Covers the empirical and theoretical basis of human LH, animal and human theories, coping strategies, and mediators of LH effects. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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