@article{ref1,
title="Effects of a growth mindset of personality on emerging adults' defender self-efficacy, moral disengagement, and perceived peer defending",
journal="Journal of interpersonal violence",
year="2020",
author="Derr, Shannon and Morrow, Michael T.",
volume="35",
number="3-4",
pages="542-570",
abstract="This study investigated the effects of a brief educational exercise aimed to promote a growth mindset of personality (the belief that personality traits are malleable) on outcomes linked to peer defending. Undergraduates (<i>N</i> = 60) were randomly assigned to complete a learning task designed to foster a growth mindset of personality or to a matching control task. They then read a vignette of a college student victimized by peers and completed paper-and-pencil measures of defender self-efficacy, moral disengagement, and perceived defender behavior, followed by a brief manipulation check. The experimental manipulation was successful, and participants who completed the growth mindset of personality intervention reported higher defender self-efficacy, lower moral disengagement, and higher perceived defending behavior. There was also a significant indirect effect of the experimental manipulation on perceived defending via self-efficacy, suggesting that a growth mindset of personality may influence peer defending through gains in defender self-efficacy. Implications are discussed for bullying prevention, with emphasis on programming for emerging adults at college.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0886-2605",
doi="10.1177/0886260517713716",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260517713716"
}