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  • Educational Psychology

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  • Emotional intelligence (EI) is linked to academic success, but mechanisms influencing engagement and burnout are unclear.
  • Regulatory focus theory and social comparison theory offer frameworks to understand EI mindset impacts.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Investigate how EI mindsets (growth vs. fixed) affect college students' academic engagement and burnout.
  • Examine the mediating roles of promotion and prevention focus.
  • Analyze the moderating effect of performance-prove goal orientation.

Main Methods:

  • Study 1: Scenario experiment to assess EI mindset effects.
  • Study 2: Three-wave longitudinal data collection to confirm pathways.
  • Statistical analyses including mediation and moderation models.

Main Results:

  • Growth mindset of EI (GMOE) enhances engagement and reduces burnout via promotion focus.
  • Fixed mindset of EI (FMOE) increases burnout and reduces engagement via prevention focus.
  • Performance-prove goal orientation moderates these indirect effects, strengthening or weakening pathways based on orientation levels.

Conclusions:

  • EI mindsets critically shape academic engagement and burnout through distinct regulatory focus pathways.
  • Performance-prove goal orientation plays a significant moderating role, highlighting individual differences.
  • Findings offer insights for interventions promoting adaptive EI mindsets in higher education.