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- General expectation that one cannot control important events, leading to
lowered persistence, motivation, self-esteem, and initiative.
- A condition in which a person attempts to establish and maintain contact with
another by adopting a helpless, powerless stance.
Source: Edgerton, Jane E. 1994. American Psychiatric Glossary, 7th Edition. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press
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