Influences of sex roles on the development of learned helplessness.

Resilience in Young Adulthood: The Moderating Influences of Gender-related Personality Traits and Coping Flexibility

“…It is noteworthy that gender undifferentiated persons also scored low on the index of depression. In an experimental study of the influence of gender roles on learned helplessness, Baucom and Danker-Brown (1979) also found undifferentiated participants, like their androgynous counterparts, to be relatively unaffected by daunting experiences, possibly due to their lukewarm involvement in tasks and their low expectation for success. Our results may also be related to the phlegmatic characteristics of undifferentiated persons.…”

The Relationship of Attributional Style to Learned Helplessness in an Interpersonal Context

“…Are there sex and gender differences in attributional style, expectancies, and depression for success and failure in interpersonal relationship (cf. Baucom & Danker-Brown, 1979)? How does the predictive validity of the ASQ compare with that of other instruments designed to assess depressogenic cognitive styles (Blaney et al, 1980;Gong-Guy & Hammen, 1980)?…”

A descriptive study of behavioral responses of sexual harassment targets: Implications for control theory

“…In summary, when the organizational culture implicitly or explicitly condones sexual harassment, or the harasser has authority over the target, organizations may be inducing learned helplessness, a phenomenon to which females are particularly susceptible (Baucom & Danker-Brown, 1979;Mainiero, 1986). In general, Radloff and Monroe (1978) suggested that females are more likely to learn helplessness than are males, while Larwood and Wood (1977) suggested that females are conditioned to exhibit passive behaviors and thus would be unlikely to display assertive behaviors even when it is appropriate to do so.…”