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  • Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Cognitive Psychology

Background:

  • Chronic self-doubt negatively impacts psychological health and performance.
  • Incremental beliefs about ability may mitigate some effects of self-doubt.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To experimentally test if incremental beliefs about ability can reduce the negative effects of self-doubt.
  • To investigate the moderating role of ability mindsets on self-doubt.

Main Methods:

  • Experiment 1: Manipulated ability beliefs (incremental vs. entity) and measured responses to self-doubt.
  • Experiment 2: Employed a 2x2 factorial design manipulating ability beliefs and self-doubt induction.

Main Results:

  • Experiment 1 showed incremental beliefs buffered against negative effects of self-doubt on nervousness and performance.
  • Experiment 2 found self-doubt lowered self-esteem under entity beliefs but not incremental beliefs.
  • Replication of Experiment 1's affect and performance findings was not achieved in Experiment 2.

Conclusions:

  • Provides some causal evidence that adopting an ability-is-malleable mindset can reduce self-doubt's negative impacts.
  • Further experimental research is needed to fully understand the moderating role of mindsets on self-doubt effects.