How does growth mindset affect mental health of high school students during the COVID-19 epidemic? The role of grit and coping strategies

Zhang, Libin; Qi, Huan; Wang, Chenxu; Zhang, Yunyun

doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2022.969572

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“…This study also suggested that the coping style mediates the relationship between implicit theories of mental health and people's mental health. Consistent with previous findings that during the COVID‐19 pandemic, a positive reframing coping strategy mediated the effect of French university students' implicit theory of emotion on their depressive symptoms (Le Vigouroux et al., 2021), and in China, student's growth mindset had a significant indirect effect on mental health through coping strategies (Zhang, Qi et al., 2022). Focusing on implicit theories of general mental health rather than emotion, this study examined both incremental and entity theories, and specifically investigated the role of active and passive coping styles, which is more comprehensive in understanding the underlying mechanisms through which implicit theories of mental health impact people's mental health.…”

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Implicit theories of mental health predict anxiety and depression during the COVID‐19 pandemic in China: The mediating effect of coping styles

Jin,

Zhang,

Chen

2023

Social & Personality Psych

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This research investigated how implicit theories of mental health (ITMH) influence people's experience of anxiety and depression symptoms during the COVID‐19 pandemic in China. Two thousand and 44 Chinese completed the study during an emergent outbreak of the COVID‐19 pandemic in Shaanxi, China. The results suggested that ITMH significantly influence people's experience of anxiety and depression symptoms. Both active and passive coping styles significantly mediated the relationship between ITMH and anxiety/depression, with active coping style as a stronger mediator than passive coping style. Implications of the current research for improving people's mental health during pandemics of infectious diseases and directions for future research are discussed.

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Implicit theories of mental health predict anxiety and depression during the COVID‐19 pandemic in China: The mediating effect of coping styles

Jin,

Zhang,

Chen

2023

Social & Personality Psych

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“…In this study, the last 3 questions were used to evaluate students’ growth mindset. The Cronbach α was 0.85 in the previous study [20] and 0.88 in this study.…”

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Mediating effects of achievement goal orientation on the relationship between growth mindset and learning engagement in medical students: A cross-sectional descriptive study

Shida

2024

Medicine

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Learning engagement is an important factor to improve the quality of medical education. Exploring the level of medical students’ learning engagement and its internal mechanism is of practical significance to improve their academic achievement. The aims of this study were to investigate the relationship between achievement goal orientation, growth mindset and learning engagement of medical students, and explore the mediating effect of achievement goal orientation on growth mindset and learning engagement. A correlational cross-sectional study was performed using an online questionnaire. The study was conducted from February to March 2024 among 279 medical college students. General information questionnaire, the Mindsets Scale, Achievement Goal Orientation Scale and Learning Engagement Scale were used for investigation. Calculations were performed using Statistical Packages for Social Sciences 27.0 and Mplus 7.0. Descriptive statistics, correlation, and mediation effect analyses were used to analyze the data. A total of 279 valid questionnaires were finally recovered. The learning engagement score of medical students was (56.17 ± 13.01), growth mindset score was (11.26 ± 3.37). The approach goal orientation played a partial mediating role between growth mindset and learning engagement in medical college students. Growth mindset can influence learning engagement through achievement goal orientation. Medical college educators should pay attention to the cultivation of students’ growth mindset and enhance their learning engagement. The verification of the mediating effect of approach goal provides data support for formulating relevant intervention measures.

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Coping Styles, Growth Mindset, Interpersonal Relationships And Suicidal Ideation In Chinese High School Students During COVID-19

Chen,

Zhang,

Dang

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Background We sought to understand the associations between growth mindset, interpersonal relationships, coping strategies and suicidal ideation in high school students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Method We surveyed 1564 high school students using the Growth Mindset Scale (GMS), Positive and Negative Suicide Ideation (PANSI), Trait Coping Style Questionnaire (TCSQ) and Interpersonal Relationships. We performed statistical analyses using Spearman’s Rank Order correlation, Mediation Analysis with PROCESS, and Structural Equation Modelling with Amos 23.0 on SPSS. Results We found that growth mindset, interpersonal relationships, coping strategies were all negatively correlated with suicidal ideation (p < 0.01), and growth mindset was positively correlated with both interpersonal relationships and coping strategies (p < 0.01). Hierarchical regression and mediation analyses showed that both growth mindset (β = -0.35, p < 0.01) and interpersonal relationships (β = -0.25, p < 0.01) had a statistically significant negative effect on suicidal ideation. Growth mindset also had a significant effect on interpersonal relationships (β = 0.27, p < 0.01) and had an indirect effect on suicidal ideation (β = -0.42, p < 0.01; effect size of -0.068 (95% CI [-0.088, -0.049])). Using coping strategies as a moderating variable, we observed significant moderation effect of positive coping strategies on the association between growth mindset and suicidal ideation (c = -0.45, t = -15.12**, 95% CI [-0.50, -0.39]). In contrary, negative coping strategies had a significant moderation effect on the association between growth mindset and suicidal ideation (c = -0.15, t = -4.78**, 95% CI [-0.20, -0.09]), and the association between interpersonal relationships and suicidal ideation (c = -0.28, t = -9.98**, 95% CI [-0.33, -0.22]). Conclusions Having a growth mindset can help students have lowered suicidal ideation, and this can be mediated by having better interpersonal relationships and moderated by positive coping strategies. This can inform future interventions for school students to build up students’ psychological resilience and emotional intelligence.

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How does growth mindset affect mental health of high school students during the COVID-19 epidemic? The role of grit and coping strategies

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Implicit theories of mental health predict anxiety and depression during the COVID‐19 pandemic in China: The mediating effect of coping styles

Implicit theories of mental health predict anxiety and depression during the COVID‐19 pandemic in China: The mediating effect of coping styles

Mediating effects of achievement goal orientation on the relationship between growth mindset and learning engagement in medical students: A cross-sectional descriptive study

Coping Styles, Growth Mindset, Interpersonal Relationships And Suicidal Ideation In Chinese High School Students During COVID-19

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