Growth Mindset Predicts Achievement Only Among Rich Students: Examining the Interplay Between Mindset and Socioeconomic Status

• Main Authors: King, Ronnel B, Trinidad, Jose Eos R
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2021
• Subjects: growth mindset; implicit theories of intelligence; socioeconomic status; school SES; Demography, Population, and Ecology; Psychology
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/is-faculty-pubs/39; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11218-021-09616-z#:~:text=Growth%20mindsets%20were%20positively%20associated,who%20are%20already%20socioeconomically%20advantaged.
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

There is a heated debate about the efficacy of growth mindsets in predicting achievement and other key learning-related outcomes with some studies supporting and others failing to find evidence of growth mindset’s adaptive effects. Moreover, past studies on mindsets have mostly examined it as a psyc...