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Languages : en
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Age and Sex Differences in the Use of Causal Attributions and Their Relationship to Persistence
Author: Age and Sex Differences in Causal Attributions for Success and Failure
Author: Debra GrantPublisher:
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Category : Failure (Psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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Dissertation Abstracts International
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 612
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Causal Attributions and Expectancy of Success
Author: Ian Douglass McMahanPublisher:
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Category : Achievement motivation
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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Sex Differences in Causal Attributions
Author: John MacGregorComprehensive Dissertation Index
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 948
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Causal Attributions about Success and Failure
Author: Brenda Washington NewhousePublisher:
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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American Doctoral Dissertations
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Category : Dissertation abstracts
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
Resources in Education
Author: Women and Attempted Suicide
Author: Raymond JackPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040125050
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Attempted suicide began to increase inexorably in western societies following World War II. In Britain, it reached epidemic proportions in 1976 when 120,000 cases were reported. More accurately termed “self-poisoning” as the majority of cases involve deliberate, non-fatal overdosing on pills, this remarkable social-medical phenomenon remains without any generally accepted explanation. First published in 1992, Women and Attempted Suicide suggests that two factors have contributed to this failure, the neglect of gender issues and the influence of psychiatry on explanations of deviant behaviour. The book offers a new psycho-social explanation based on the theory of Causal Attribution. This suggests that as a result of their socialization, individuals differ in the causes to which they attribute their problems and that some causal attributions are more helpful than others in coping with problems. The volume argues that certain women – and others such as the unemployed and underprivileged who may have limited control over their lives – acquire a “helpless” attributional style. This renders them less able to cope with adversity, more likely to turn to doctors when it befalls them, and more likely to be prescribed psychotropic drugs. When pills fail to solve problems, helplessness may turn to hopelessness and self-poisoning. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in many disciplines and particularly of psychology, medical sociology, and women studies.