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A synergistic mindsets intervention protects adolescents from stress

Social-evaluative stressors—experiences in which people feel they could be judged negatively—pose a major threat to adolescent mental health(1–3) and can cause young people to disengage from stressful pursuits, resulting in missed opportunities to acquire valuable skills. Here we show that replicabl...

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Autores principales: Yeager, David S., Bryan, Christopher J., Gross, James J., Murray, Jared S., Krettek Cobb, Danielle, H. F. Santos, Pedro, Gravelding, Hannah, Johnson, Meghann, Jamieson, Jeremy P.
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9258473/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35794485
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04907-7
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author Yeager, David S.
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Gross, James J.
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Krettek Cobb, Danielle
H. F. Santos, Pedro
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Jamieson, Jeremy P.
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description Social-evaluative stressors—experiences in which people feel they could be judged negatively—pose a major threat to adolescent mental health(1–3) and can cause young people to disengage from stressful pursuits, resulting in missed opportunities to acquire valuable skills. Here we show that replicable benefits for the stress responses of adolescents can be achieved with a short (around 30-min), scalable 'synergistic mindsets' intervention. This intervention, which is a self-administered online training module, synergistically targets both growth mindsets(4) (the idea that intelligence can be developed) and stress-can-be-enhancing mindsets(5) (the idea that one’s physiological stress response can fuel optimal performance). In six double-blind, randomized, controlled experiments that were conducted with secondary and post-secondary students in the United States, the synergistic mindsets intervention improved stress-related cognitions (study 1, n = 2,717; study 2, n = 755), cardiovascular reactivity (study 3, n = 160; study 4, n = 200), daily cortisol levels (study 5, n = 118 students, n = 1,213 observations), psychological well-being (studies 4 and 5), academic success (study 5) and anxiety symptoms during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdowns (study 6, n = 341). Heterogeneity analyses (studies 3, 5 and 6) and a four-cell experiment (study 4) showed that the benefits of the intervention depended on addressing both mindsets—growth and stress—synergistically. Confidence in these conclusions comes from a conservative, Bayesian machine-learning statistical method for detecting heterogeneous effects(6). Thus, our research has identified a treatment for adolescent stress that could, in principle, be scaled nationally at low cost.
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spelling pubmed-92584732022-07-07 A synergistic mindsets intervention protects adolescents from stress Yeager, David S. Bryan, Christopher J. Gross, James J. Murray, Jared S. Krettek Cobb, Danielle H. F. Santos, Pedro Gravelding, Hannah Johnson, Meghann Jamieson, Jeremy P. Nature Article Social-evaluative stressors—experiences in which people feel they could be judged negatively—pose a major threat to adolescent mental health(1–3) and can cause young people to disengage from stressful pursuits, resulting in missed opportunities to acquire valuable skills. Here we show that replicable benefits for the stress responses of adolescents can be achieved with a short (around 30-min), scalable 'synergistic mindsets' intervention. This intervention, which is a self-administered online training module, synergistically targets both growth mindsets(4) (the idea that intelligence can be developed) and stress-can-be-enhancing mindsets(5) (the idea that one’s physiological stress response can fuel optimal performance). In six double-blind, randomized, controlled experiments that were conducted with secondary and post-secondary students in the United States, the synergistic mindsets intervention improved stress-related cognitions (study 1, n = 2,717; study 2, n = 755), cardiovascular reactivity (study 3, n = 160; study 4, n = 200), daily cortisol levels (study 5, n = 118 students, n = 1,213 observations), psychological well-being (studies 4 and 5), academic success (study 5) and anxiety symptoms during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdowns (study 6, n = 341). Heterogeneity analyses (studies 3, 5 and 6) and a four-cell experiment (study 4) showed that the benefits of the intervention depended on addressing both mindsets—growth and stress—synergistically. Confidence in these conclusions comes from a conservative, Bayesian machine-learning statistical method for detecting heterogeneous effects(6). Thus, our research has identified a treatment for adolescent stress that could, in principle, be scaled nationally at low cost. Nature Publishing Group UK 2022-07-06 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9258473/ /pubmed/35794485 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04907-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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