Leveraging a Dual-Focused Growth Mindset to Boost Employee Resilience and Work Well-Being: Evidence From a Two-Wave Survey and an Intervention Study.

ABSTRACT: The post-pandemic era, coupled with the rising adoption of AI chatbots and robotics, introduces significant new challenges for employee work well-being. Thus, it is important to investigate underlying mechanisms about how employees can develop mindsets to promote well-being at work. This study examines how a dual-focused growth mindset-comprising a growth mindset about the self (the belief in the ability to develop personal abilities) and a growth mindset about work (the belief in the capacity to optimise work conditions)-can enhance employee work well-being through resilience. In a two-wave survey involving 606 full-time employees in China (Study 1), we found that both mindsets were associated with lower levels of mental ill-health symptoms (one dimension of work well-being) by increasing

SUBMITTER: Siu OL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12306150 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature