Carol Diener

An analysis of learned helplessness: Continuous changes in performance, strategy, and achievement cognitions following failure.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champa ign Helpless children show marked performance decrements under failure, whereas mastery-oriented children often show enhanced performance...

An analysis of learned helplessness: II. The processing of success.

Helpless children attribute their failures to lack of ability and view them as insurmountable. Mastery-oriented children, in contrast, tend to emphasize motivational factors and...

Factors predicting the subjective well-being of nations.

Most People Are Happy

Myers and Diener (1995) asked “Who is happy?” but examined the question of who is more and who is less happy In fact, most people report a positive level of subjective well-bein...