Growth mindset and school burnout symptoms in young adolescents: the role of vagal activity as potential mediator
Experiencing school burnout symptoms can have negative consequences for learning. A growth mindset, the belief that human qualities such as intelligence are malleable, has previously been correlated with fewer school burnout symptoms in late adolescents. This might be because adolescents with a stro...
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| author | Smiddy Nieuwenhuis Smiddy Nieuwenhuis Smiddy Nieuwenhuis Denise J. van der Mee Denise J. van der Mee Tieme W. P. Janssen Tieme W. P. Janssen Tieme W. P. Janssen Leonie L. L. Verstraete Martijn Meeter Nienke M. van Atteveldt Nienke M. van Atteveldt Nienke M. van Atteveldt |
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| description | Experiencing school burnout symptoms can have negative consequences for learning. A growth mindset, the belief that human qualities such as intelligence are malleable, has previously been correlated with fewer school burnout symptoms in late adolescents. This might be because adolescents with a stronger growth mindset show more adaptive self-regulation strategies and thereby increasing resilience against academic setbacks. Here we confirmed in a sample of 426 Dutch young adolescents (11–14 years old; 48% female) that this relationship between growth mindset and school burnout symptoms holds after controlling for other potential predictors of school burnout symptoms such as academic achievement, school track, gender, and socio-economic status. Our second aim was to increase our understanding of the mechanism underlying the relation between mindset and school burnout, by measuring physiological resilience (vagal activity, a measure of parasympathetic activity, also known as heart rate variability or HRV) in a subsample (n = 50). We did not find any relation between vagal activity and growth mindset or school burnout symptoms, nor could we establish a mediating effect of vagal activity in their relation. In conclusion, we found evidence for a potential protective effect of a growth mindset on school burnout symptoms in young adolescents, but not for physiological resilience (vagal activity) as an underlying mechanism. The protective effect of growth mindset as confirmed in our younger sample can be leveraged in interventions to prevent increasing school burnout symptoms. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bdcf59f1e9bc4ff4b4eebafcc6a5dc022023-07-14T01:59:54ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782023-07-011410.3389/fpsyg.2023.11764771176477Growth mindset and school burnout symptoms in young adolescents: the role of vagal activity as potential mediatorSmiddy Nieuwenhuis0Smiddy Nieuwenhuis1Smiddy Nieuwenhuis2Denise J. van der Mee3Denise J. van der Mee4Tieme W. P. Janssen5Tieme W. P. Janssen6Tieme W. P. Janssen7Leonie L. L. Verstraete8Martijn Meeter9Nienke M. van Atteveldt10Nienke M. van Atteveldt11Nienke M. van Atteveldt12Section Clinical, Neuro and Developmental Psychology, Faculty of Behavioral and Movement Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NetherlandsInstitute for Brain and Behavior Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NetherlandsLEARN! Research Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NetherlandsSection Clinical, Neuro and Developmental Psychology, Faculty of Behavioral and Movement Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NetherlandsInstitute for Brain and Behavior Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NetherlandsSection Clinical, Neuro and Developmental Psychology, Faculty of Behavioral and Movement Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NetherlandsInstitute for Brain and Behavior Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NetherlandsLEARN! Research Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NetherlandsSection Clinical, Neuro and Developmental Psychology, Faculty of Behavioral and Movement Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NetherlandsLEARN! Research Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NetherlandsSection Clinical, Neuro and Developmental Psychology, Faculty of Behavioral and Movement Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NetherlandsInstitute for Brain and Behavior Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NetherlandsLEARN! Research Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NetherlandsExperiencing school burnout symptoms can have negative consequences for learning. A growth mindset, the belief that human qualities such as intelligence are malleable, has previously been correlated with fewer school burnout symptoms in late adolescents. This might be because adolescents with a stronger growth mindset show more adaptive self-regulation strategies and thereby increasing resilience against academic setbacks. Here we confirmed in a sample of 426 Dutch young adolescents (11–14 years old; 48% female) that this relationship between growth mindset and school burnout symptoms holds after controlling for other potential predictors of school burnout symptoms such as academic achievement, school track, gender, and socio-economic status. Our second aim was to increase our understanding of the mechanism underlying the relation between mindset and school burnout, by measuring physiological resilience (vagal activity, a measure of parasympathetic activity, also known as heart rate variability or HRV) in a subsample (n = 50). We did not find any relation between vagal activity and growth mindset or school burnout symptoms, nor could we establish a mediating effect of vagal activity in their relation. In conclusion, we found evidence for a potential protective effect of a growth mindset on school burnout symptoms in young adolescents, but not for physiological resilience (vagal activity) as an underlying mechanism. The protective effect of growth mindset as confirmed in our younger sample can be leveraged in interventions to prevent increasing school burnout symptoms.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1176477/fullgrowth mindsetschool burnout symptomsphysiological resilienceself-regulating strategiesvagal activityheart rate variability |
| spellingShingle | Smiddy Nieuwenhuis Smiddy Nieuwenhuis Smiddy Nieuwenhuis Denise J. van der Mee Denise J. van der Mee Tieme W. P. Janssen Tieme W. P. Janssen Tieme W. P. Janssen Leonie L. L. Verstraete Martijn Meeter Nienke M. van Atteveldt Nienke M. van Atteveldt Nienke M. van Atteveldt Growth mindset and school burnout symptoms in young adolescents: the role of vagal activity as potential mediator Frontiers in Psychology growth mindset school burnout symptoms physiological resilience self-regulating strategies vagal activity heart rate variability |
| title | Growth mindset and school burnout symptoms in young adolescents: the role of vagal activity as potential mediator |
| title_full | Growth mindset and school burnout symptoms in young adolescents: the role of vagal activity as potential mediator |
| title_fullStr | Growth mindset and school burnout symptoms in young adolescents: the role of vagal activity as potential mediator |
| title_full_unstemmed | Growth mindset and school burnout symptoms in young adolescents: the role of vagal activity as potential mediator |
| title_short | Growth mindset and school burnout symptoms in young adolescents: the role of vagal activity as potential mediator |
| title_sort | growth mindset and school burnout symptoms in young adolescents the role of vagal activity as potential mediator |
| topic | growth mindset school burnout symptoms physiological resilience self-regulating strategies vagal activity heart rate variability |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1176477/full |
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