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Anxious Solitude and Peer Exclusion Predict Social Helplessness, Upset Affect, and Vagal Regulation in Response to Behavioral Rejection by a Friend
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Gazelle, Heidi; Druhen, Madelynn J. – Developmental Psychology, 2009
It was hypothesized that combined individual child vulnerability (anxious solitude) and interpersonal stress (peer exclusion) would predict the strongest responses to experimentally manipulated behavioral peer rejection. Results indicated that in a sample of 3rd graders (N = 160, 59% girls), anxious solitary excluded children displayed more…
Descriptors: Metabolism, Helplessness, Elementary School Students, Grade 3
Person Versus Process Praise and Criticism: Implications for Contingent Self-Worth and Coping.
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Dweck, Carol S.; Kamins, Melissa L. – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Two studies had children role-play successful and unsuccessful tasks to test the hypothesis that both criticism and praise that conveyed person or trait judgments could send a message of contingent worth and undermine subsequent coping. Found that 5- to 6-year olds displayed significantly more "helpless" responses after person criticism or praise…
Descriptors: Adult Child Relationship, Coping, Criticism, Helplessness
Sex Differences in Learned Helplessness: I. Differential Debilitation with Peer and Adult Evaluators
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Bush, Ellen S.; Dweck, Carol S. – Developmental Psychology, 1976
Peer and adult evaluators were used to examine sex differences in responses of 108 fifth graders to failure feedback. Performance in boys improved with feedback from adult agents but did not change with peer feedback. Performance in girls improved with peer feedback but showed little improvement with adult feedback. (GO)
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Adults, Elementary School Students, Feedback
Helplessness in Children of Depressed and Nondepressed Mothers.
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Nolen-Hoeksema, Susan; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1995
Assessed helplessness behaviors in five- to seven-year-old children of mothers with and without depression. Found that, although mothers with depression set a more negative affective tone than mothers without depression during mother-child puzzle tasks, there were few significant differences between the two groups of mothers and children. (MDM)
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Depression (Psychology), Helplessness, Mothers
Perceived Control and Learned Helplessness among Mentally Retarded and Nonretarded Children: A Developmental Analysis.
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Weisz, John R. – Developmental Psychology, 1979
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Feedback
Maternal Self-Efficacy and Experimentally Manipulated Infant Difficulty Effects on Maternal Sensory Sensitivity: A Signal Detection Analysis
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Donovan, Wilberta; Leavitt, Lewis; Taylor, Nicole – Developmental Psychology, 2005
The impact of differences in maternal self-efficacy and infant difficulty on mothers' sensitivity to small changes in the fundamental frequency of an audiotaped infant's cry was explored in 2 experiments. The experiments share in common experimental manipulations of infant difficulty, a laboratory derived measure of maternal efficacy (low,…
Descriptors: Personality, Self Efficacy, Mothers, Helplessness
Learned Helplessness in the Rat: Retention and Immunization
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And Others; Hannum, Robert D. – Developmental Psychology, 1976
Inescapable shock given to weanling rats produced large deficits in adult escape behavior. Experience with escapable shock while a weanling immunizes the animal against the deficits produced by inescapable shock received as an adult. Implications of these findings for animal models of human depression are discussed. (Author/MS)
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Behavior Change, Behavioral Science Research, Conditioning
A Multimethodological Analysis of Cumulative Risk and Allostatic Load among Rural Children.
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Evans, Gary W. – Developmental Psychology, 2003
This study modeled physical and psychosocial aspects of home environment and personal characteristics in a cumulative risk heuristic. Found that elevated cumulative risk was associated with heightened cardiovascular and neuroendocrine parameters, increased deposition of body fat, and higher summary index of total allostatic load. Replicated…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Behavior Problems, Cardiovascular System, Children