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Finds fixed emotion mindsets affect emotional responses in students, suggesting new intervention strategies.
= 15.38; 48.9% boys; 67.49% non-White) across the 2022-2023 school year. Total-effect models revealed FEMs predicted significantly more disengagement and involuntary dysregulation; indirect-effect models revealed that FEMs predicted significantly lower proactive engagement and higher cognitive avoidance via lower cognitive flexibility. Results also revealed that cognitive flexibility predicted significantly lower FEMs, and involuntary dysregulation predicted marginally higher FEMs. These results highlight the importance of mindsets in the development of effective emotion regulation and identify one potential mechanism that may underlie this link. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).
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