A Synergistic Mindsets Intervention Protects Adolescents from Social Stress.

ABSTRACT: Social stress poses a major threat to adolescent health via its effects on internalizing symptoms, such as anxiety and depression. Available interventions to help adolescents improve their stress responses, however, have not been effective in rigorous evaluation studies, or they have been difficult to administer widely. Here we show that replicable improvements in adolescent stress responses can be achieved with a short (~30-minute), scalable synergistic mindsets intervention. This intervention, which is a self-administered online training module, targets both growth mindsets (the idea that people's intelligence can be developed in response to challenge) and stress-can-be-enhancing mindsets (the idea that people's stress responses can be fuel for optimal performance). Its goal is to promot

SUBMITTER: Yeager D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8168396 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature