The Role of Rumination in Susceptibility of Learned Helplessness

• Authors: Tomasz Jarmakowski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article is the attempt of illustration of the potential role of rumination as an individual factor in susceptibility of learned helplessness (LH). The hypothesis of the moderating role of rumination is based on the results of the researches on depression and the experimental researches on rumination. The description of these researches and conclusions derived from them are placed in the first part of the article. The second part is the analysis of potential mechanisms of the rumination impact on LH deficits. These different mechanisms leads to different predictions that are empirically verifiable.

Keywords

EN

rumination; learned helplessness; learned helplessness susceptibility

PL

ruminacja; wyuczona bezradność; podatność na wyuczoną; bezradność

• Publisher: Committee on Psychological Sciences PAS, Warsaw School of Social Psychology
• Journal: Psychological Studies
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 49
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 61-72

Dates

published

2011-01-01

online

2011-09-22

Contributors

author

Tomasz Jarmakowski

• Doradztwa Zawodowego Uniwersytet Łódzki, Instytut Psycholo4gii, Zakład Psychologii Społecznej, Organizacji i

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10167-011-0005-8