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EJ515254 PS524311
Title: Helplessness in Early Childhood: The Role of Contingent Worth.Author(s): Burhans, Karen Klein; Dweck, Carol S.
Source: Child Development, v66 n6 p1719-38 Dec 1995
Publication Date: 1995
ISSN: 0009-3920
Language: English
Document Type: Information Analysis (070); Journal articles (080); Opinion papers (120)
Journal Announcement: CIJAPR1996
Reviews a
series of studies documenting that key aspects of helpless reactions
to failure are present in preschool and early elementary school
children. Proposes a preliminary model in which a general conception
of self and the notion of this self as an object of contingent worth
are sufficient conditions for helplessness. (HTH)
Descriptors: *Academic Failure; Developmental Stages; Elementary
School Students; *Helplessness; Models; Perceptual Development;
Personality Traits; Preschool Children; *Self Concept
