Helping students to face academic failures : Evaluation of a growth mindset intervention among primary school students in China
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Students commonly struggle with academic failure. Innovative interventions aimed at improving the essential components of academic success are therefore needed. The aim of this study was to test whether teaching a growth mindset of intelligence (the belief that intelligence is malleable and can be developed) could improve students' attitudes towards failure and academic outcomes. In particular, we explored whether students' perceived parental beliefs about failure influenced the effect of a growth mindset intervention. We tested the 8-session growth mindset intervention in a sample of 1766 Chinese primary school students (age M = 10.61; SD = .99). Measures of mindset of intelligence, failure belief, positive strategies, and academic achievement were completed at baseline (T1) and 3-month follow-up (T2). In comparison to the control group, students in the intervention group reported a stronger growth mindset of intelligence at 3-month follow-up, which in turn indirectly increased their positive failure belief and inclinations of positive strategies when facing failures. Moreover, these beneficial effects of the growth mindset intervention were sustained only when students perceived relatively more supportive parental beliefs about failure. Additionally, the growth mindset intervention to some extent protected students' academic achievement from a downward trajectory at follow-up. Collectively, the findings highlight the promising effects of a growth mindset intervention on students' academic-related outcomes.
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2023 |
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2023 |
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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2023 |
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Applied psychology. Health and well-being - (2023) vom: 12. Okt. |
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Englisch |
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| Beteiligte Personen: |
Zhao, Shan [VerfasserIn] |
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Academic achievement |
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Date Revised 12.10.2023 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status Publisher |
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10.1111/aphw.12496 |
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