Human Learned Helplessness - A Coping Perspective

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author integrates virtually the entire published literature on the phenomenon of learned helplessness, as well as some unpublished data, into a single coherent theoretical framework.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.

List 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.

Summary

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author integrates virtually the entire published literature on the phenomenon of learned helplessness, as well as some unpublished data, into a single coherent theoretical framework.

Product details

• Authors: Mario Mikulincer
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.06.2009
• EAN: 9780306447433
• ISBN: 978-0-306-44743-3
• No. of pages: 312
• Weight: 644 g
• Illustrations: XII, 312 p.
• Series: The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology; The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology; The Springer Series in Social/Clinical Psychology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology