Feeling A Lack of Control Over One's Environment

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One of the theories that emerged from certain experiments in the 1960s was that of learned helplessness. The writer reports the historical antecedents, what the term means, where and how it can be applied and its relationship to depression. A table illustrates the correlations between depression and helplessness. There are four sources listed in the bibliography of this five page paper.