Cultivating emotional resilience in adolescent girls: Effects of a growth emotion mindset lesson
To address the widespread mental health crisis facing adolescent girls, this study examined whether a growth emotion mindset lesson can enhance emotional competence. During 2018-2022, adolescent girls (M<sub>age</sub> = 15.68 years; 66.3% White) were randomized to a growth mindset (E-MIND; N = 81) or brain education (control; N = 82) lesson, completed the Trier Social Stressor Test, and reported on various aspects of emotional competence. Compared with the control group, the E-MIND group reported more adaptive emotion mindsets, higher emotion regulation self-efficacy, and more proactive in vivo and daily efforts to regulate emotions (effect sizes = small-to-medium to medium), with several differences remaining 4-month later. Findings provide novel insight into one promising approach for cultivating emotional resilience among adolescent girls.
Authors
- Wendy Heller (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6854-558X)
- Wendy Troop‐Gordon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4744-9385)
- Megan Finnegan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4095-1225)
- Haina H. Modi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2440-6227)
- Zihua Ye (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-0560)
- Haley V. Skymba (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8842-9116)
- Karen D. Rudolph (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6190-3356)
- Rebekah Clapham (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2126-7313)
- Jillian Dodson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6050-5778)
Institutions
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
- Knoxville College (US)
- University of Tennessee at Knoxville (US)
- Auburn University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Child Development
- Published
- 2024-10-05
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14175
- Citations
- 15
- Primary Topic
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 9.59
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- Campus Research Board