Measuring the effects of failure with learning disabled children.
The effects of failure on performance for children diagnosed as learning disabled (reading) and normal children were compared with a simple clinical measure. As hypothesized, learning disabled children stressed with failure scored significantly (p less than .05) poorer than stressed normals on a reading posttest. Learning disabled children were seen to have developed a learned helplessness response mode and experienced greater difficulty in recovering from failure than normal cohorts. The results were interpreted as lending support to the use of a clinical measure in assessing the role played by failure in children's learning disorders.
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Ball State University, Muncie, IN 47306.
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D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006380:Helplessness, Learned; D006801:Humans; D007807:Language Tests; D007859:Learning Disabilities / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D011932:Reading; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications*