Year: 1978
Type: article
Abstract: had a significant effect upon mean response latency, a persistence measure.Females spent less time seeking solutions.A trend for number of anagrams correct before learning the pattern suggested that males learned the pattern in fewer trials.Correlations between sex and ability and persistence measures suggested that scores of persistence dec~eased more with helplessness experience for males, while for females, scores of ability were more adversely affected.Sex role identity was not related to measures of reactance and learned helplessness for males, but for females the more feminine identified they were, the longer they spent seeking anagram solutions and the fewer requests they made for new problems.Data from questionnaires supported predictions made by the reactance-learned helplessness model.Experience with uncontrollable outcomes generally resulted in feelings of lack of control, incompetence, frustration, stress; and depression.The results were discussed •in terms of issues raised in the learned helplessness literature as well as by the combined reactance-learned helplessness model of depression.The importance of sex and sex role identity were examined as they relate to the ability to tolerate feelings of helplessness and to seek active solution~ in situations whe~e the outcqmes a~e uncontrollable.~mplic~tions for ~uture theory ~nd ;re!iiearch we;r;-e discussed P.nd S")-lggestiqns wete ma,de for the treatment c;>f depres•si.onsbased UJ?On the findi~gs of th;i.sstudy.•
Author: Dale S. Gody
Institution: Loyola University Chicago
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2266065730