Trial reportThe British journal of educational psychology2025
Explore your brain: A randomized controlled trial into the effectiveness of a growth mindset intervention with psychosocial and psychophysiological components.
Trial report in The British journal of educational psychology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Explore your brain: A randomized controlled trial into the effectiveness of a growth mindset intervention with psychosocial and psychophysiological components.The British journal of educational psychology · 2025Trial
- Coping styles mediate the relation between mindset and academic resilience in adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic: a randomized controlled trial.Scientific reports · 2023Trial
- Exploring Neural Evidence of Attention in Classroom Environments: A Scoping Review.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Why does the brain matter for education?The British journal of educational psychology · 2025Article
- Efficacy of a Web-Based Integrated Growth Mindset Intervention on Reducing Anxiety Among Social Work and Counseling Practicum Trainees: Protocol for a 2-Arm Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Differentiating mathematical mindset, growth mindset, and self-efficacy through intervention research: a neuroplasticity approach.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Changes in physiological arousal during an arithmetic task: profiles of elementary school students and their associations with mindset, task performance and math grade.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Growth mindset and school burnout symptoms in young adolescents: the role of vagal activity as potential mediator.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundAlthough past research demonstrated growth mindset interventions to improve school outcomes, effects were small. This may be due to the theoretical nature of psychosocial techniques (e.g., reading about brain plasticity), which may not be optimally convincing for students.
aimsTo address this issue and improve effectiveness, we developed a growth mindset intervention, which combined psychosocial and psychophysiological components. The latter adds a convincing experience of influencing one's own brain activity, using mobile electroencephalography (EEG) neurofeedback, emphasizing the controllable and malleable nature of one's brain. SAMPLE: In this randomized controlled trial (RCT), twenty high-school classes (N = 439) were randomized to either the active control condition (no mindset messaging) or our newly developed growth mindset intervention condition (4 × 50 min).
methodsSchool outcomes (pre, post, 1-year follow-up) were analysed with Linear Mixed Models (LMM: variable-oriented) and Latent Transition Analysis (LTA: person-oriented).
resultsLMM: students in the growth mindset intervention reported increased growth mindset directly after the intervention (post, d = .38) and at 1-year follow-up (d = .25) and demonstrated a protective effect against deterioration of math grades at 1-year follow-up (d = .36), compared to controls. LTA: we identified three mindset profiles (Fixed, Growth competitive, Growth non-competitive), with more frequent transitions from fixed to one of the growth mindset profiles at 1-year follow-up for students in the growth mindset intervention compared to controls (OR 2.58-2.68).
conclusionsCompared to previous studies, we found relatively large effects of our intervention on growth mindset and math grades, which may be attributable to synergetic effects of psychosocial and psychophysiological (neurofeedback) components. The person-oriented approach demonstrated more holistic effects, involving multiple motivational constructs.
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