- Title
- Learned helpnessness, depression and self-esteem in mothers of children with specific learning disabilities
- Creator
- Abrams, Greta Barbara
- Subject
- Helplessness (Psychology), Mother and child - Psychological aspects, Learning disabilities, Depression, Mental
- Date
- 2014-08-27
- Type
- Thesis
- Identifier
- uj:12137
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10210/11881
- Description
- M.A. (Clinical Psychology), This study was conducted to ascertain whether the mothers of children with psychoneurological learning disabilities were more depressed, helpless due to a particular attributional style, and had a lower self-concept, than the mothers of children with anxiety disorders. The Beck Depression Inventory, (Beck, Ward, Mendelson & Erbaugh, 1961), the Attributional Style Questionnaire (Abramson, Seligman &Teasdale, 1978), and the Tennessee Self Concept Scale (Fitts, 1965) were completed by the mothers of 20 boys with psychoneurological learning .disabilities and the mothers of 20 boys with anxiety disorders, aged 6-12 years. Significant results were obtained contrary to expectations, in that the mothers of children with anxiety disorders, were in fact more depressed, helpless and had a lower self-concept than the mothers of children with psycho- neurological disabilities. The conclusion was drawn that the nature of the psychopathology did not depend as much on one factor such as a specific learning disability or an anxiety disorder, but was rather a manifestation of the functioning of the family system. Further research seems indicated to investigate the strengths and vulnerabilities in the family system as a whole, in terms of the reciprocal influence of the learning disabled child and his family...
- Contributor
- Wolff, E., Prof.
- Rights
- University of Johannesburg
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