Learned Helplessness of the Faculties of Higher Education

Learned helplessness is a psychological condition in which, after further stress or depression, a person begins to believe that they have no control over their situation. Therefore, they gave up trying to change and accepted their fate. The purpose of the present study was to ascertain the present status of learned helplessness among the faculties of higher education of Purulia district. The present study was carried out through the Descriptive Survey method by administering the Learned Helplessness Scale (Quinless & Nelson, 1988) on a random sample of 521 sample. The result of the study reflected that on an average both the male and female faculties of higher education expressed Low Learned Helplessness in their life. So, it might be concluded that, the faculties of higher education may be able to take proper decisions, maintain positive attitude towards self and society, continuously facing challenges, tolerate frustration, be effortful, highly motivated, active participation in everything, high self-esteem, having punctuality and accept tasks.