Learned helplessness & attribution style: At the mercy of the boss?

you feel helplessly at the mercy? Research has long since established that it also depends on us how light we feel helpless. And we can change that.

How the attribution style works

Science says: Felt helplessness has something to do with the so-called “attribution style” - with how we explain to ourselves what is happening around and with us.

For example, one of them thinks: “I can never please someone. I always do everything wrong and get comfortable with everyone Executive my Problems get and also not be able to do many other things.”

While another tells himself: "My boss is an idiot. He does not know what he wants. It will be completely different with another boss. And maybe I can go in Future Yes, just ask more precisely what he actually wants.”

Am I to blame or the situation?

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The first person maintains what is called a stable, internal, global attribution: He thinks the reason for the mishap lies within himself (internal), is permanent (stable), and general, so also affects others People and in other contexts (global).

The second person, on the other hand, attributes unstable and external: She believes that the reasons are external (in the circumstances), that they are only temporary and could be quite different next time (unstable). One and the same event is interpreted differently by different people.

So you think motivationally

The second version is more healthy. Those who are stable, internal and globally attitudes, are more likely to slip into the learned helplessness - and into the depression.

For the learned helplessness is considered a common way to depression. And of course also in the inertia: No one is motivated, who feels helpless.

Learning for everyday life

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Things to Learn for Everyday life can we get out of it on both sides. If we want to motivate others, for example at work, in the Family, at school or in the tennis club: Then we should be careful that the others don't get the impression "What I do doesn't count anyway."

We do not want to do this by arbitrarily and unpredictably, today and tomorrow we want that, and we can not listen to anything or anyone.

Change your own attribution style

On the other hand, we can of course also prevent the learned helplessness ourselves: Check your attribution style regularly.

Be more aware of the fact that misfortunes can also be due to others, can be temporary - and that you might have a different situation the next time.

And if someone absolutely does not clear can say what he actually wants: Then keep asking until he learns.

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