Trial reportJournal of abnormal child psychology2019
The Effect of an Intervention Teaching Adolescents that People can Change on Depressive Symptoms, Cognitive Schemas, and Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Hormones.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The effects of school-based interventions on physiological stress in adolescents: A meta-analysis.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2022Pooled it
- The Relationship Between Multidimensional Motivation and Endocrine-Related Responses: A Systematic Review.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2021Pooled it
- Improving Mental Health in Adolescent Girls via a Randomized Trial of an Emotion Mindset Intervention.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2026Trial
- The online mindset intervention 'The Growth Factory' for adolescents with intellectual disabilities: moderators and mediators.Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDR · 2022Trial
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- Cultivating emotional resilience in adolescent girls: Effects of a growth emotion mindset lesson.Child developmentTrial
- Examining concurrent validity and item selection of the Session Wants and Needs Outcome Measure (SWAN-OM) in a children and young people web-based therapy service.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Specific Pathways from Parental Distress Reactions to Adolescent Depressive Symptoms: The Mediating Role of Youths' Reactions to Negative Life Events.Journal of psychopathology and behavioral assessment · 2022Article
- Trait attributions and threat appraisals explain why an entity theory of personality predicts greater internalizing symptoms during adolescence.Development and psychopathology · 2022Article
- Effect of Growth Mindset on Mental Health Two Years Later: The Role of Smartphone Use.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Future Directions in Single-Session Youth Mental Health Interventions.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53Article
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Abstract
Interest is increasing in developing universal interventions to prevent depression in adolescents that are brief enough to be scaled up. The aim of this study was to test the effects on depressive symptoms, cognitive schemas, and Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Hormones of an intervention focused on teaching an element of an incremental theory of personality, namely, the belief that people can change. We also examined whether grade level moderated the effects of the intervention. A double-blind, randomized, controlled trial was conducted with 867 Spanish adolescent participants (51.9% boys, Grades 8-10) randomly assigned to an incremental theory intervention (n = 456) or an educational control intervention (n = 411). The adolescents completed measures of depressive symptoms and negative cognitive schemas at pretest, at 6-month follow-up, and at 12-month follow-up. A subsample of 503 adolescents provided salivary samples for cortisol and DHEA-S testing. In 8th grade, adolescents who received the incremental theory intervention displayed a greater decrease in depressive symptoms and cognitive schemas and a lower increase in DHEA-S. Moreover, in adolescents who received the intervention, the rate of adolescents with high depression scores decreased by almost 18% whereas in the control group, the rate increased by 37%. Surprisingly, the effects of the intervention were in the opposite direction among adolescents in 9th grade. These data indicate that a brief universal intervention could prevent depressive symptoms under some conditions, but developmental characteristics can moderate the effectiveness of this approach.
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