Experimental Analysis of Motivational and Cognitive Deficits of "Learned Helplessness" in a Sample of Non-Depressed Adolescents

Abstract

Within the present paper the authors analyse the motivational and cognitive deficits of the model of learned helplessness from the expectations of self-eflcacy, expectations of response-outcome contingency, locus of control, and sex of the subjets; using a sample of  274 non depressed teenapers. The results suggest that the motivational deficits are only present within the group that shows low expectations of self-eflcacy and high expectations of response-outcome contingency. The cognitive deficits were not found in either of the groups.