Kappes, Heather Barry 
ORCID: 0000-0002-6335-3888, Stephens, Elizabeth J. and Oettingen, Gabriele
(2011)
Implicit theories moderate the relation of positive future fantasies to academic outcomes.
Journal of Research in Personality, 45 (3).
pp. 269-278.
ISSN 0092-6566
Abstract
We hypothesized and observed that the degree to which students endorsed entity theories – the view that intelligence is fixed rather than malleable – attenuated the affective benefits and exacerbated the achievement drawbacks of positive fantasies in the academic domain. Positive fantasies only predicted low anger and anxiety for schoolchildren who did not strongly endorse entity theories (Study 1), and positive fantasies only predicted poor final school grades for vocational students who did strongly endorse entity theories (Study 2). An experiment indicated that for university students with stronger entity theories, positive fantasies demanded relatively little attention (Study 3), suggesting that positive fantasies obscure the opportunity for the preemptive self-regulation which promotes successful performance.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-resear... |
| Additional Information: | © 2011 Elsevier |
| Divisions: | Management |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Sep 2012 10:29 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Apr 2024 08:19 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/46287 |
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