Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
Kaulingfreks.pdf (application/pdf Object) Explanatory style. Explanatory style is a psychological attribute that indicates how people explain to themselves why they experience a particular event, either positive or negative.
Psychologists have identified three components in explanatory style: Personal. (Internal vs. Learned helplessness. Learned helplessness is a mental state in which an organism forced to endure aversive stimuli, or stimuli that are painful or otherwise unpleasant, becomes unable or unwilling to avoid subsequent encounters with those stimuli, even if they are escapable, presumably because it has learned that it cannot control the situation.[1] Learned helplessness theory is the view that clinical depression and related mental illnesses may result from a perceived absence of control over the outcome of a situation.[2] Organisms that have been ineffective and less sensitive in determining the consequences of their behaviour are defined as having acquired learned helplessness.[3] Foundation of research and theory[edit] Seligman and Maier[edit]
