Deprivation On Learned Helplessness Summary

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Mal, Jain, and Yadav (1990) examined the “Effects of Prolonged Deprivation on Learned Helplessness”. This article is based on an experimental study conducted in an urban area of India. The hypothesis of the study was that prolonged deprivation could have a negative impact in humans, generating feelings of self-insecurity, incompetence, negativity, and failure (Mal, Jain, & Yadav, 1990). The main purpose of the experiment was to test how much prolonged deprivation could influence learned helplessness in the subjects. They were also interested in validating if gender was a determining factor in this hypothesis.
The subjects for this study were selected out of a large pool of high school students in India. Prior to the selection, students were …show more content…

It referenced multiple research articles which were published in famous journals, such as the Journal of Social Psychology and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Theoretical background of research is good, authors on their work used findings of their predecessors. Due to this fact, they primarily used findings of local Indian authors, and citation of American and European authors is very low. Moreover, research was published in 1990, however, authors primarily cite articles, which were published in the period from 1960 to 1985. So, the ratio of recent articles (respectively to 1990) is …show more content…

A logistics regression would have been a practical method to estimate and predict the gender and prolonged helplessness relationship. Once this prediction is done, a linear regression could be used to assess the strength of the relationship between gender and prolonged helplessness. Authors did not include any graphs or tables in this article. Some readers are visual learners and it could be easier to understand the data and results when it is presented in a more visual manner. It would have been easier to admire the relationship between independent and dependent variables with a linear and a logistic regression

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