Persistence and disengagement in personal goal pursuit

V Brandstätter, K Bernecker - Annual Review of Psychology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Persistence in and timely disengagement from personal goals are core components of
successful self-regulation and therefore relevant to well-being and performance. In the …

Investigating the role of English as a foreign language learners' academic motivation and language mindset in their grit: a theoretical review

Y Liu - Frontiers in psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
This review made a critical attempt to examine the studies on the role of English as a foreign
language (EFL) learners' academic motivation and growth mindsets in their grit. Some …

The plasticity of well-being: A training-based framework for the cultivation of human flourishing

CJ Dahl, CD Wilson-Mendenhall… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Research indicates that core dimensions of psychological well-being can be cultivated
through intentional mental training. Despite growing research in this area and an increasing …

Perceiving effort as poor learning: The misinterpreted-effort hypothesis of how experienced effort and perceived learning relate to study strategy choice

A Kirk-Johnson, BM Galla, SH Fraundorf - Cognitive psychology, 2019 - Elsevier
How do learners make decisions about how, what, and when to study, and why are their
decisions sometimes ineffective for learning? In three studies, learners experienced a pair of …

Self-regulation for creative activity: The same or different across domains?

A Zielińska, B Forthmann, I Lebuda… - … of Aesthetics, Creativity …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
To put creative ideas and insights into action, people need to overcome obstacles, monitor
their processes, and effectively evaluate the steps they take. Across two studies (N= 832 and …

A serial mediation model testing growth mindset, life satisfaction, and perceived distress as predictors of perseverance of effort

KKL Lam, M Zhou - Personality and Individual Differences, 2020 - Elsevier
Recent studies have consistently lent support for the significant association between growth
mindset and perseverance of effort; however, only a handful of studies focused on …

Who sticks with meditation? Rates and predictors of persistence in a population-based sample in the USA

SU Lam, KM Riordan, O Simonsson, RJ Davidson… - Mindfulness, 2023 - Springer
Objectives Despite the well-documented psychological benefits of meditation practice,
limited research has examined factors associated with meditation practice persistence. Like …

Incremental intelligence matters: How L2 writing mindsets impact feedback orientation and self-regulated learning writing strategies

J Xu - Assessing Writing, 2022 - Elsevier
This study investigated the relationship between growth and fixed mindsets, orientation
toward written corrective feedback, and self-regulated learning (SRL) writing strategies in …

Overarching states of mind

N Herz, S Baror, M Bar - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2020 - cell.com
We all have our varying mental emphases, inclinations, and biases. These individual
dispositions are dynamic in that they can change over time and context. We propose that …

Grit and academic self-efficacy as serial mediation in the relationship between growth mindset and academic delay of gratification: a cross-sectional study

H Zhao, Y Li, L Wan, K Li - Psychology Research and Behavior …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose With a growth mindset, individuals focus on the process of growth, actively seek
challenges, recognise and accept failures, and apply more effort and monitor themselves to …