Dirks, Merlin (2023) Handling Work-Related Setbacks: A Professional Skills and Abilities Mindset Analysis. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Setbacks and negative feedback are very common for people, especially in the context of the workplace. Thus, we rely on their beliefs regarding the malleability of skills to explain differences in reactions to negative feedback among people. Mindset, which represents a set of beliefs people possess, is much investigated in general, but research on mindset in the workplace is rather scarce. Specifically, we were interested in the influence of professional skills and abilities mindset on people experiencing negative feedback in the domain of work. Therefore, we hypothesized that a growth mindset leads to more success expectations, which we measured in terms of self-efficacy (H1), and that maladaptive perfectionism influences the relationship between mindset and success expectations (H2). An experiment with two conditions was conducted, where participants were guided towards either believing that their abilities are malleable (growth mindset) or not changeable (fixed mindset). Following the completion of several tasks, participants received negative feedback, and then information regarding their success expectation level was collected. Statistical analyses comparing the two groups revealed that a growth mindset leads to more success expectations and this relationship is influenced by maladaptive perfectionism. However, a small sample size as well as uncertainties about the manipulations require a careful interpretation of the results. Keywords: mindset, professional skills and abilities, setbacks, success expectation, growth and fixed
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Heihal, T.I. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Mar 2023 09:34 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Mar 2023 09:34 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/1829 |
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