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Reducing risk for anxiety and depression in adolescents: Effects of a single-session intervention teaching that personality can change

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Schleider, Jessica L., Weisz, John R.·2016·Behaviour Research and Therapy

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Efforts to reduce youth mental health problems have advanced greatly but have not lowered overall rates of youth mental illness. Thus, a need exists for disseminable, mechanism-targeted approaches to reducing risk of youth psychopathology. Accordingly, we conducted a randomized-controlled trial testing whether a single-session intervention teaching growth personality mindsets (the belief that personality is malleable) reduced known risk factors for anxiety and depression in adolescents experiencing or at risk for internalizing problems (N = 96, ages 12-15). Compared to a supportive-therapy control, a 30-min computer-guided mindset intervention strengthened adolescents' perceived control; this improvement was associated with increases in growth mindsets. Further, electrodermal activity recovery slopes showed that youths receiving the mindset intervention recovered from a lab-based social stressor over three times as fast as control group youths. Improvements in growth mindsets and perceived control were linked with faster stress recovery. Results suggest a disseminable strategy for reducing internalizing problem risk among adolescents.

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Authors: Schleider, J. L., & Weisz, J. R.
Affiliations: Harvard University (US)
Corresponding author: Schleider, Jessica L.
ORCID: Schleider, Jessica L.
Weisz, John R.
Venue: Behaviour Research and Therapy
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2016-12
Volume: 87
Pages: 170-181
ISSN: 0005-7967 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2016.09.011
PMC: PMC5127737
OpenAlex: W2524633373
Cited by: 152
References: 104
Citations by year: 2026: 16 · 2025: 21 · 2024: 18 · 2023: 24 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 17 · 2019: 15 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 1
FWCI: 11.77
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Licence: www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations: Behaviour Research and Therapy (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders: National Institute of Mental Health (F31MH108280)
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
Keywords: growth mindset, adolescents, anxiety, depression, internalizing problems, perceived control, single-session intervention, electrodermal activity, stress recovery, youth mental health, risk mitigation
MeSH terms: Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior, Anxiety, Child, Depression, Female, Galvanic Skin Response, Humans, Male, Personality, Psychotherapy, Brief, Risk Factors, Stress, Psychological, Therapy, Computer-Assisted

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