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The social support and education group reported significantly less helplessness compared with the other groups.
In addition, those who use medication reported less Acceptance (β = −0.15) and more Helplessness (β = 0.11), while using medical devices is associated with less Helplessness (β = −0.11).
Those with a stable or positive course of illness reported more Acceptance (β = 0.20) and less Helplessness (β = −0.23) than those with a variable or negative course of disease.
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The interdependence of all things, combined with an awareness of the helplessness of those less fortunate, inspires compassion.
"I think learned helplessness would make someone less defiant and more likely to compliantly tell the interrogator what he wants to hear," Seligman said.
What's terrifying in a story by Stephen King or Peter Straub is, finally, nothing less than the sensation of pure helplessness, of confronting something that cannot be conquered — or regulated, or even understood — by reason alone.
This might reflect the feeling of helplessness where people have less control over the external environment than their homes.
Although there were examples of interviews where feelings of helplessness and resignation were less prominent, the following examples represent very common descriptions for the control group participants: P: I have accepted the situation I am in.
The effect of the intervention on mood disturbance and adjustment to cancer showed a transient difference at the 6-month follow-up, where the intervention group reported less reduction in anxious preoccupation (P=0.04), helplessness (P=0.002), confusion (P=0.001) and depression (P=0.04).
Furthermore, tiredness was associated with less Acceptance (β = −0.12) and more Helplessness (β = 0.13) and Benefits (β = 0.13); having problems with sitting was also associated with less Acceptance (β = −0.12) and more Helplessness (β = 0.17).
But even for those of us who keep on going, bogged down by fear and helplessness our writing is apt to sag - to become less inventive, less playful, less exuberant.
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