Misalignment profiles predict growth-oriented disengagement: students can endorse self-change while withdrawing when routes are perceived as infeasible¶

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Subclaims¶

q1 i? High self-change paired with low environment-change and/or low pathway flexibility produces motivational dynamics difficult to detect when only self-beliefs are measured. → Srinivasan 2026 q1 i? When pathway flexibility is low, disengagement tends to occur earlier and more decisively, not because students doubt their capacity to grow, but because no legitimate route forward is perceived. → Srinivasan 2026

Evidence¶

Srinivasan 2026¶

Srinivasan, H. (2026). Possibility Mindset: A Theory of Motivation Under Constraint, with Neurodivergence as a Revealing Interpretive Case. Preprint (v1) posted to PsyArXiv on January 18, 2026. https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv

q1 · i? · theoretical · r3

Theoretical prediction from the conceptual model section, illustrated in Figure 1 as interaction rather than additive contribution. The article states the profiles in Table 2 generate falsifiable predictions about withdrawal timing, help-seeking patterns, strategy switching, and explanations for difficulty; no data are reported.

"misalignment among the three belief dimensions is predicted to be a primary driver of what might be termed growth-oriented disengagement, wherein students endorse self-change while withdrawing due to perceived infeasibility of available routes."

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