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powerlessness

Known as: helplessness, Feel Helpless, Felt Helpless 
A question about whether an individual feels or felt helpless.
National Institutes of Health

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vulnerabilities in self development and self esteem

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Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Behavioral Teratogenicity Induced by Nonforced Maternal Nicotine Consumption
Prenatal nicotine exposure (PNE) has been associated with increased prevalence of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Rats with congenital learned helplessness respond less to sucrose but show no deficits in activity or learning
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Etiological significance of associations between childhood trauma and borderline personality disorder: conceptual and clinical implications.
Numerous studies over the past decade have pointed to the frequent occurrence of trauma and neglect in the childhood experience… 
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Electroconvulsive shocks increase the concentration of neocortical and hippocampal neuropeptide Y (NPY)-like immunoreactivity in the rat
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
A reexamination of the effectiveness of self-care education for persons with arthritis.
We examined the effectiveness of 2 models of arthritis self-care intervention, the home study model and the small group model… 
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Child sexual abuse: who is to blame?
Highly Cited
1980
Highly Cited
1980
Learned helplessness, inactivity, and associative deficits: effects of inescapable shock on response choice escape learning.
These experiments explored whether exposure to inescapable shock produces a subsequent deficit in the organism's propensity to… 
Highly Cited
1979
Highly Cited
1979
Long-term analgesic effects of inescapable shock and learned helplessness.
Although exposure to inescapable shocks induced analgesia in rats, the analgesia was not manifest 24 hours later. A brief… 
Highly Cited
1978
Highly Cited
1978
Altering patients' responses to surgery: an extension and replication.
This study of 58 cholecystectomy and 57 herniorrhaphy patients was designed to determine the reliability of the effects of… 
Review
1976
Review
1976
Mania in childhood: case studies and literature review.
Criteria for mania in children have been established on the basis of criteria for mania in adults. Mania in children is an… 
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