Reduced growth mindset as a mechanism linking childhood trauma with academic performance and internalizing psychopathology.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite the high prevalence of childhood adversity and well-documented associations with poor academic achievement and psychopathology, effective, scalable interventions remain largely unavailable. Existing interventions targeting growth mindset-the belief that personal characteristics are malleable-have been shown to improve academic achievement and symptoms of psychopathology in youth.

Objective

The present study examines growth mindset as a potential modifiable mechanism underlying the associations of two dimensions of childhood adversity-threat and deprivation-with academic achievement and internalizing psychopathology.

Participants and setting

Participants were 408 youth aged 10-18 years drawn from one timepoint of two longitudinal studies of community

SUBMITTER: Lurie LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10028502 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature