Lee, Wendy;
(2022)
The role of emotion mindsets in adolescent anxiety and well-being.
Doctoral thesis (D.Ed.Psy), UCL (University College London).
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Abstract
An important part of the Educational Psychologist role involves the design and implementation of universal and targeted interventions to increase the use of evidence-based strategies for improving anxiety and psychological well-being outcomes in educational settings. Literature suggests that a key to motivation for engaging with healthy strategy use is the beliefs that individuals hold about the controllability of emotions. However, no research has yet examined beliefs which are specific to the malleability of anxiety in adolescents under the age of 18 years. Method: Self-report data was collected from 332 participants aged 16 – 18 attending post-16 educational settings in an inner city of England using validated questionnaires. Qualitative data was subsequently collected from a subset of the participants using semi-structured interviews in a follow-up study. Results: Anxiety malleability beliefs were a stronger predictor of anxiety and well-being than emotion controllability beliefs. Anxiety malleability beliefs were positively correlated with the reappraisal emotion regulation strategy and negatively correlated with the suppression strategy. Reappraisal did not mediate the association between the two beliefs and anxiety symptoms but did mediate the association between the two beliefs and psychological well-being. Adolescent anxiety malleability beliefs appeared to vary across features and contexts which were specific to anxiety. Discussion: implications on EP practice in the design and implementation of interventions include: addressing anxiety malleability beliefs before strategy use, targeting psychological well-being alongside anxiety outcomes, and evaluating individual differences in the relationship between anxiety beliefs and a wider range and combination of strategy use.
| Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
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| Qualification: | D.Ed.Psy |
| Title: | The role of emotion mindsets in adolescent anxiety and well-being |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author 2022. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author's request. |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Psychology and Human Development UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10153396 |
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