Parents' beliefs about failure and reactions to children's failures, not their own mindsets, predict children's mindsets¶
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q3 i? Parents' beliefs about failure and their reactions to children's failures consistently predicted children's mindsets, while parents' and children's mindsets showed little correlation. → Dweck 2019
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Dweck 2019¶
Dweck, C. S., & Yeager, D. S. (2019). Mindsets: A View From Two Eras. Perspectives on Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691618804166
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Haimovitz's studies found little if any correlation between parents' and children's mindsets; instead "parents' beliefs about failure and their reactions to children's failures" consistently predicted children's mindsets. No effect sizes are printed in the quoted text.
"Her research found that it was parents' beliefs about failure and their reactions to children's failures that consistently predicted their children's mindsets (Haimovitz & Dweck, 2016; for a discussion of how overt cues such as adults' praise or reactions to failure might be more visible to children than the adults' actual mindsets, see Haimovitz & Dweck, 2017)."
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Related Claims¶
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Parents' beliefs about failure and reactions to children's failures, not their own mindsets, predict children's mindsets |
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Parents' beliefs about failure and reactions to children's failures, not their own mindsets, predict children's mindsets |
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