Leveraging a Dual-Focused Growth Mindset to Boost Employee Resilience and Work Well-Being: Evidence From a Two-Wave...

Area of Science:

• Organizational Psychology
• Occupational Health
• Human Resource Management

Background:

• The post-pandemic era and AI integration pose new challenges to employee well-being.
• Understanding mechanisms for fostering positive work mindsets is crucial.
• A dual-focused growth mindset (self and work) is proposed as a key factor.

Purpose of the Study:

• To investigate how a dual-focused growth mindset enhances employee work well-being.
• To examine the mediating role of resilience in this relationship.
• To assess the impact of a growth mindset intervention on well-being outcomes.

Main Methods:

• Study 1: Two-wave survey of 606 full-time employees in China.
• Study 2: Quasi-experimental design with an intervention and control group (151 participants total).
• Analyses included correlational, mediation, and quasi-experimental evaluations.

Main Results:

• Both self and work growth mindsets positively correlated with lower mental ill-health symptoms via increased resilience.
• Self-growth mindset's effect on resilience was stronger under high work stress.
• The intervention effectively improved dual growth mindsets, job satisfaction, and flourishing.

Conclusions:

• A dual growth mindset, particularly self-growth, enhances employee well-being and flourishing through resilience.
• Resilience acts as a serial mediator between self-growth mindset and flourishing.
• Growth mindset interventions show promise for improving workplace well-being.