In the context of present-day life, educator and educated face with equal helplessness the existential questions to be answered.
Emotional uninvolvement, along with the helplessness, irritability, and hostility often associated with depression are likely to interfere with the parenting function.
These habits would then further augment social appraisals of inefficacy or helplessness.
All these feelings of shock, hurt, helplessness and disappointment that have been explored antenatally are often magnified at the birth of an undiagnosed cleft baby.
Other times, action was mainly done f or the purpose of distraction or to counteract a sense of helplessness.
All but one of the women felt initial indecision about what to do and consequent depression over this helplessness.
From tapes of the puzzle task, children were rated on behaviors presumed to reflect helplessness: intensity of work on solving puzzles, help-seeking behaviors, and persistence.
The perceived lack of power and control over the lives of the respondents led to feelings of helplessness and depression.
