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Growth mindset buffers the adverse effects of math anxiety on psychological symptoms among upper-grade students at Chinese ethnic elementary schools.
| Τίτλος: | Growth mindset buffers the adverse effects of math anxiety on psychological symptoms among upper-grade students at Chinese ethnic elementary schools. |
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| Συγγραφείς: | Chang B; School of Educational Science, Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University, Guangzhou, China., Sun L; Faculty of Education, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, China., Fang J; School of Educational Science, Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University, Guangzhou, China. Electronic address: bdjs2004@163.com. |
| Πηγή: | Acta psychologica [Acta Psychol (Amst)] 2026 Aug; Vol. 268, pp. 107399. Date of Electronic Publication: 2026 Jul 11. |
| Τύπος έκδοσης: | Journal Article |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
| Στοιχεία περιοδικού: | Publisher: North Holland Publishing Country of Publication: Netherlands NLM ID: 0370366 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1873-6297 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00016918 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Acta Psychol (Amst) Subsets: MEDLINE |
| Imprint Name(s): | Publication: Amsterdam : North Holland Publishing Original Publication: The Hague. |
| Ιατρικοί όροι (MeSH): | Anxiety*/psychology , Anxiety*/ethnology , Students*/psychology , Mathematics* , Self Efficacy*, China/ethnology ; Ethnicity/psychology ; Humans ; Female ; Child ; Male ; Longitudinal Studies ; Schools ; East Asian People |
| Περίληψη: | To examine the relationship and underlying mechanisms between mathematics anxiety (MA) and mental health among upper-grade students in border ethnic elementary schools, we conducted three substudies. Study 1 surveyed 1636 sixth-grade students from border ethnic elementary schools using the Children's Mathematics Anxiety Scale, the General Self-Efficacy Scale, the Brief Symptom Inventory, and the Growth Mindset Scale. Study 2 involved a six-month longitudinal study with three waves of data collection. Study 3 implemented a growth mindset (GM) intervention. The results consistently demonstrated that: (1) MA was positively correlated with psychological symptoms (PS) and negatively correlated with self-efficacy (SE), while SE was negatively correlated with PS; (2) SE partially mediated the effect of MA on PS; and (3) GM significantly moderated the three pathways through which MA influenced PS via SE. These findings provide empirical support for mental health prevention and intervention strategies for upper-grade students in China's border ethnic primary schools. (Copyright © 2026. Published by Elsevier B.V.) |
| Competing Interests: | Declaration of competing interest The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. |
| Σχόλια: | Erratum in: Acta Psychol (Amst). 2026 Aug 10:107566. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.107566.. (PMID: 42575749) |
| Contributed Indexing: | Keywords: Growth mindset; Mathematics anxiety; Psychological symptoms; Self-efficacy |
| Entry Date(s): | Date Created: 20260711 Date Completed: 20260724 Latest Revision: 20260810 |
| Update Code: | 20260811 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.107399 |
| PMID: | 42435564 |
| Βάση Δεδομένων: | MEDLINE |
| ISSN: | 1873-6297 |
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| DOI: | 10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.107399 |