The relationship between learned helplessness, self-concept, and academic achievement

النوع : Mémoire

Research has shown that learned helpless students, who attribute failure to lack--of ability, tend to show impaired academic achievement and low self-concepts. This--study confirmed this correlation when it exarnined the relationship between these three--constructs in students who are in the fourth and sixth grade in a private school in Beirut--(N=73) using the Intellectual Achievement Responsibility Scale and the Piers-Harris--Children's Self-Concept scale to measure learned helplessness and self-concept,--respectively. The grade point average of these students expressed in T- scores was used--to measure their academic achievement. Findings from the regression analysis, which--examined the relative potency of learned helplessness and self-concept as predictors of--academic achievement, revealed that only learned helplessness had a role in academic--achievement; self-concept was excluded despite significant correlations. Moreover--MANOVA analysis which was used to measure the developmental differences between--the grades four and six concerning the variables of learned helplessness, self-concept,--and academic achievement revealed that only learned helplessness showed significant--differences.