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The Role of Fixed and Growth Mindset in Students' Coping with Stress. A Quantitative Analysis

Matuschinski, Monika LU and Hammers, Alida Lara (2019) MGTN59 20191
Department of Business Administration
Abstract
This study investigates the link between growth or fixed mindset and maladaptive or adaptive coping strategies in students. It is hypothesized that an overall growth mindset leads to adaptive (healthy) coping mechanisms, whereas an overall fixed mindset fosters maladaptive (unhealthy) coping strategies. There is only one study by Doron, Stephan, Boiché & Scanff (2009) available that examines the relationship between mindset and coping with stress. Therefore, there is a great need for further studies. Besides that, the present study focusses on the overall mindset, which is a new approach that has not been done before. A total of 121 students from Lund University in Sweden completed the survey. The online survey consisted of Dweck´s Mindset... (More)
This study investigates the link between growth or fixed mindset and maladaptive or adaptive coping strategies in students. It is hypothesized that an overall growth mindset leads to adaptive (healthy) coping mechanisms, whereas an overall fixed mindset fosters maladaptive (unhealthy) coping strategies. There is only one study by Doron, Stephan, Boiché & Scanff (2009) available that examines the relationship between mindset and coping with stress. Therefore, there is a great need for further studies. Besides that, the present study focusses on the overall mindset, which is a new approach that has not been done before. A total of 121 students from Lund University in Sweden completed the survey. The online survey consisted of Dweck´s Mindset Instrument (DMI), the Brief COPE, demographic variables and control variables. For the statistical analysis, frequencies, cross tables with Chi 2 as well as Cramer’s V and a logistic regression were used. The results imply that there is no significant relationship between mindset and coping strategies. This indicates, that there is no difference
between students with a growth or a fixed mindset and their way of coping with stress.
Besides that, the findings show that most of the students from Lund University have a growth
mindset and use adaptive coping strategies, which underlines that the distribution of the
sample size was unequal. (Less)
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author
Matuschinski, Monika LU and Hammers, Alida Lara
supervisor
organization
course
MGTN59 20191
year
type
H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
subject
keywords
overall mindset, growth mindset, fixed mindset, implicit theories, stress, maladaptive coping, adaptive coping, coping strategies, students
language
English
id
8989436
date added to LUP
2019-07-02 12:01:07
date last changed
2019-07-02 12:01:07
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  abstract     = {{This study investigates the link between growth or fixed mindset and maladaptive or adaptive coping strategies in students. It is hypothesized that an overall growth mindset leads to adaptive (healthy) coping mechanisms, whereas an overall fixed mindset fosters maladaptive (unhealthy) coping strategies. There is only one study by Doron, Stephan, Boiché & Scanff (2009) available that examines the relationship between mindset and coping with stress. Therefore, there is a great need for further studies. Besides that, the present study focusses on the overall mindset, which is a new approach that has not been done before. A total of 121 students from Lund University in Sweden completed the survey. The online survey consisted of Dweck´s Mindset Instrument (DMI), the Brief COPE, demographic variables and control variables. For the statistical analysis, frequencies, cross tables with Chi 2 as well as Cramer’s V and a logistic regression were used. The results imply that there is no significant relationship between mindset and coping strategies. This indicates, that there is no difference
between students with a growth or a fixed mindset and their way of coping with stress.
Besides that, the findings show that most of the students from Lund University have a growth
mindset and use adaptive coping strategies, which underlines that the distribution of the
sample size was unequal.}},
  author       = {{Matuschinski, Monika and Hammers, Alida Lara}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{The Role of Fixed and Growth Mindset in Students' Coping with Stress. A Quantitative Analysis}},
  year         = {{2019}},
}