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(ZHU 380)

egenovese0521 — 2025-09-25 17:11:01 UTC

“Compared to youth who believed that personal traits were malleable (growth mindset), those who had fixed mindset, that is, believed their attributes could not change, were more likely to show more mental health problems (Zhu 380.)”

(Zhu 390.)

egenovese0521 — 2025-09-25 17:11:29 UTC

“Thus, MDASS, measuring people's beliefs about the malleability of their mental health symptoms, is helpful to provide important information for predicting psychological distress and intervention efforts, which are important considerations for prevention and early intervention in psychiatry (Zhu 390.)”

(DWEAK 15)

egenovese0521 — 2025-09-25 17:12:23 UTC

“You don’t have to have one mindset or the other to be upset. Who wouldn’t be? Things like a poor grade or a rebuff from a friend or loved one—these are not fun events. No one was smacking their lips with relish. Yet those people with the growth mindset were not labeling themselves and throwing up their hands. Even though they felt distressed, they were ready to take the risks, confront the challenges, and keep working at them.”

(Tao 312)

egenovese0521 — 2025-09-25 17:13:01 UTC

“In a study investigating the effects of growth mindset on navigation ability, a unique portion of variance in self-reported navigation ability was found, suggesting that a growth mindset can encourage people to seek out navigation challenges and train themselves to be better navigators in daily life (He and Hegarty, 2020).”

(Schreiber 100)

egenovese0521 — 2025-09-25 17:13:34 UTC

“To summarize, the majority of people seem to hold a stress-is-debilitating mindset and a life-is-short-and-hard mindset. Based on the Eudaimonic Activity Model, Cognitive Dissonance Theory and the Growth Mindset Theory, it can be argued that a change in people’s beliefs might directly have an influence on their level of mental wellbeing.”

(Schreiber 112)

egenovese0521 — 2025-09-25 17:16:13 UTC

“People with a growth mindset may suffer fewer stress and self-reported symptoms of psychological disease. For instance, when adolescents experience family stress, growth mindset can relieve the stress and reduce the protective effects of externalizing behaviors (Walker and Jiang, 2022). On the other hand, fixed mindset (entity theories of personality) have been shown to predict greater self-reported stress (Yeager et al., 2014) and anxiety following ostracism, as well as greater reports of psychosocial stress and psychopathology (Schleider et al., 2015; Miu and Yeager, 2016) compared to a growth mindset (incremental theories of personality; Yeager et al., 2016a).”

CONNECTION #1

egenovese0521 — 2025-09-25 17:26:13 UTC

Both quotes highlight how a growth mindset helps people face difficulties without giving up. the first quote shows that even when people feel upset by setbacks, like a bad grade or rejection, those with a growth mindset keep trying instead of labeling themselves as failures. The second quote supports this idea by showing that a growth mindset motivates people to challenge themselves and practice skills, like navigation, to improve over time. They show that believing you can grow turns obstacles into opportunities to learn and get stronger.

CONNECTION #2

egenovese0521 — 2025-09-25 17:29:20 UTC

Both quotes show that believing mental health can change is important. The first explains that the MDASS measures these beliefs to predict stress and guide early help, while the second shows that a growth mindset can lower stress and mental health problems, but a fixed mindset can make them worse.

CONNECTION #3

egenovese0521 — 2025-09-25 17:32:10 UTC

Both quotes show that what you believe affects your mental health. The first says that people with a fixed mindset have more mental health problems, while those with a growth mindset do better. The second explains that changing negative beliefs can improve wellbeing. Together, they show that changing your mindset can lead to better mental health.