Journal
PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
Volume 110, Issue -, Pages 23-26Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2017.01.016
Keywords
Growth mindset; Anxiety mindset; Stressful life events; Potentially traumatic events; Coping; Resilience
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- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF) [DGE-0802267]
- National Institutes of Health K12 grant [HD065879]
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Beliefs about the malleability of global attributes like personality and intelligence - known as mindsets - are well-established predictors of resilience to challenges in educational contexts. Recent research further suggests that mindsets about anxiety may act in a similar fashion with mental health resilience. In this study we examined whether anxiety mindset would moderate relations between history of stressful life events and psychological distress and coping. Consistent with predictions, relations between number of stressful life events and posttraumatic stress symptoms, depression, substance use, and motivations for non-suicidal self-injury were weaker among those with more of a growth mindset relative to those with more of a fixed mindset. These initial results suggest that anxiety mindsets function in a similar way for mental health resilience as how mindsets of intelligence function for academic outcomes. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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