Dixon, John; Frolova, Yuliya - In: Poverty & Public Policy 3 (2011) 2, pp. 6-6
over the future, and welfare over work. This results in learned helplessness, manifesting as a lack of will to take control … agental consequences of welfare dependency; (2) to redesign the features of social assistance programs that exacerbate learned … helplessness amongst beneficiaries; and (3) to determine how best to reduce the psychologically incapacitating effects of welfare …