Human Learned Helplessness: A Coping Perspective (The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology)

"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author integrates virtually the entire published literature on the phenomenon of learned helplessness, as well as some unpublished data, into a single coherent theoretical framework.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"--Font no determinada Front Matter....Pages i-xi The Empirical and Theoretical Basis of Human Learned Helplessness....Pages 1-32 Coping Strategies as Proximal Mediators of LH Effects....Pages 33-63 Mental Rumination as a Proximal Mediator of LH Effects....Pages 65-98 The Expectancy of Control as a Distal Mediator of LH Effects....Pages 99-138 Emotional Arousal as a Distal Mediator of LH Effects....Pages 139-171 Perceived Task Value as a Moderator of LH Effects....Pages 173-207 Self-Focused Attention as a Moderator of LH Effects....Pages 209-237 A Coping Perspective of Human Learned Helplessness....Pages 239-273 Back Matter....Pages 275-311