Since Seligman carried out classic learned helplessness in 1975, it has been an important research issue that how people will respond to loss of perceived control. Compared to traditional perspective which more emphasize the effects of reduced control on physical and mental health, the emerging compensatory control theory proposes that people will deal reduced control with a special strategy, nonspecific structure affirmation. On the basis of this claim, numerous studies reveal that nonspecific structure affirmation will further cause perceptional, ideological and behavioral changes, including...
