Parents' views of failure as good or bad predict children's growth and fixed mindsets
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Children's mindsets about intelligence (as fixed or malleable) robustly influence their motivation and learning. Yet, surprisingly, research has not linked parents' intelligence mindsets to their children's. We test the hypothesis that a different belief may be more visible to children (parents' failure mindsets) and therefore more prominent in shaping children's beliefs. Study 1 shows that parents can view failure as debilitating or enhancing, and these failure mindsets predict parenting practices and in turn children's intelligence mindsets. Study 2 probes more deeply into how parents display failure mindsets. Study 3 replicated these findings and additionally showed that parents who view failure as enhancing also reported more emotional responses to a similar scenario. Study 4 revealed that children can indeed accurately perceive their parents' failure but not intelligence mindsets. Study 5 showed that children's perceptions of their parents' failure mindsets also predicted their own intelligence mindsets. Finally, Study 6 showed a causal effect of parents' failure mindsets on responses to their child's hypothetical failure. Overall, parents who see failure as debilitating focus on children's performance and ability rather than learning, and this predicts whether their children believe that intelligence is fixed or malleable.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2016 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Haimovitz, Kyla |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Psychology. |
| Primary advisor | Dweck, Carol S, 1946- |
| Thesis advisor | Dweck, Carol S, 1946- |
| Thesis advisor | Gross, James J |
| Thesis advisor | Walton, Gregory M. (Gregory Mariotti) |
| Advisor | Gross, James J |
| Advisor | Walton, Gregory M. (Gregory Mariotti) |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Kyla Haimovitz. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Psychology. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2016. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2016 by Kyla Haimovitz
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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