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Trait attributions and threat appraisals explain why an entity theory of personality predicts greater internalizing symptoms during adolescence
Development and Psychopathology ( IF 5.317 ) Pub Date : 2021-03-23 , DOI: 10.1017/s0954579420001832
Eunjin Seo 1 , Hae Yeon Lee 2 , Jeremy P Jamieson 3 , Harry Reis 3 , Robert A Josephs 1 , Christopher G Beevers 1 , David S Yeager 1
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Adolescents who hold an entity theory of personality – the belief that people cannot change – are more likely to report internalizing symptoms during the socially stressful transition to high school. It has been puzzling, however, why a cognitive belief about the potential for change predicts symptoms of an affective disorder. The present research integrated three models – implicit theories, hopelessness theories of depression, and the biopsychosocial model of challenge and threat – to shed light on this issue. Study 1 replicated the link between an entity theory and internalizing symptoms by synthesizing multiple datasets (N = 6,910). Study 2 examined potential mechanisms underlying this link using 8-month longitudinal data and 10-day diary reports during the stressful first year of high school (N = 533, 3,199 daily reports). The results showed that an entity theory of personality predicted increases in internalizing symptoms through tendencies to make fixed trait causal attributions about the self and maladaptive (i.e., “threat”) stress appraisals. The findings support an integrative model whereby situation-general beliefs accumulate negative consequences for psychopathology via situation-specific attributions and appraisals.



中文翻译:

特质归因和威胁评估解释了为什么人格实体理论预测青春期有更大的内化症状

持有人格实体理论(即人们无法改变的信念)的青少年更有可能在向高中过渡的社会压力过渡期间报告内化症状。然而,令人费解的是,为什么关于改变潜力的认知信念可以预测情感障碍的症状。本研究整合了三个模型——内隐理论、抑郁绝望理论以及挑战和威胁的生物心理社会模型——来阐明这个问题。研究 1 通过综合多个数据集( N = 6,910)复制了实体理论与内化症状之间的联系。研究 2 使用 8 个月的纵向数据和 10 天的日记报告检查了这种联系背后的潜在机制,在压力很大的高中一年级(N = 533,3,199 份每日报告)。结果表明,人格实体理论通过对自我和适应不良(即“威胁”)压力评估做出固定特质因果归因的倾向来预测内化症状的增加。研究结果支持一种综合模型,即情境一般信念通过特定情境的归因和评估来累积对精神病理学的负面影响。

更新日期:2021-03-23
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