The spread of the Waldorf system, he told me, "reflects the helplessness that people feel toward public education".
That all starts with letting go of tendencies toward learned helplessness and becoming empowered by ignoring the negative messaging telling you, "you'll never retire". Whenever you see that, think about Seligman's poor dogs.
As a result, their study showed four factors: (1) "Lack of confidence in speaking English in class," with nine items exceeding 0.3 factor loadings; (2) "Fear of speaking in public," with 10 items; (3) "Anxiety about not understanding everything taught in class," with seven items; and (4) "Helplessness and negative attitude toward the English class," with six items.
Guiding groups of people wanting to move beyond fright and helplessness in the face of climate change toward effective personal and collective responses.
We need to overcome our feelings of helplessness, and channel our rage and our anguish toward constructive ends.
But conversations with locals revealed an ambivalence toward the Americans — and a feeling of helplessness to stop the wheel of history.
The world has watched the dehumanization of a mother's child, police with military-grade gear tear-gassing protesters, journalists arrested and assaulted, and the response of helplessness and frustration that many community members must feel toward elected officials from City Hall to the halls of Congress.
The concept of ageism was introduced by Butler 23 in 1969 with reference to revulsion toward the elderly, disease and infirmity, fear of helplessness, uselessness, and death.
Assessments included validated Confidence and Self-Reported Practice scales, the Attitudes Toward Caring for Patients Feeling Meaningless Scale (including willingness to help, positive appraisal, and helplessness items), the Maslach Burnout Scale, job satisfaction, and the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Spiritual (FACIT-Sp).
