Schmidt, Linnea (2023) Facing Setbacks at Work, an Analysis of Professional Skills and Abilities Mindset and Maladaptive Perfectionism. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
This paper examines how individuals’ reactions to setbacks differ by investigating the SOMA framework outlined by Burnette et al. (2012), which states that people’s reactions to setbacks will result in success expectations and negative affect. Burnette et al. (2012) posit that mindset, either believing that skills are malleable and developable, defined as a growth mindset, or cannot be changed, defined as a fixed mindset, underlie people’s reaction to setbacks. In this paper, an experiment prompting people to subscribe to either Professional Skills and Abilities (PSaA; Schmitt & Scheibe, 2022) growth or fixed mindset was designed to check how people react to setbacks in a workplace setting. We found that a growth PSaA mindset indeed increased individuals’ success expectations compared to a fixed PSaA mindset at the p<.05 level. Furthermore, individual differences are essential to how people deal with setbacks. Thus we investigate how PSaA mindset affects reported success expectations might also differ depending on one’s traits like maladaptive perfectionism. Maladaptive perfectionism is thought to buffer the effects of a primed growth PSaA mindset and amplify the effects of a primed fixed PSaA mindset. The interaction of maladaptive perfectionism and PSaA was insignificant at p<.05, thus not supporting the hypothesis.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Heihal, T.I. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Jul 2023 16:09 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Jul 2023 16:09 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/2262 |
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