SOME EXERCISES WITH THE LEARNED HELPESSNESS SCALE (LH/SCALE) IN HINDI

Learned Helplessness Scale - Hindi version (Dhar, Kohli & Dhar, 1987) was administered to 50 graduates. Scoring was done using the original method as given in the manual and by two of its variations. Correlations among the three forms of scoring were found to be very high (.85 and above). In another excercise, 30 of the subjects were administered P.G.I. Health Questionnaire N-2 and P.G.I. General Well Being Scales and in the third excercise 20 subjects were administered P.G.I. Health Questionnaire N-l and P.G.I. Locus of Control Scale, in addition to the L-H scale. The obtained correlations between LH and other variables show that it is positively correlated with neuroticism and negatively with the sense of general wellbeing, both correlations showing relationship of moderate degree only (about 25% overlap with the neuroticism and even lower for general well being). This feeling of learned helplessness was not related to the internal or external locus of control and the scale showed little effect of social desirability response set.