Preventing Symptoms of Depression by Teaching Adolescents That People Can Change
Effects of a Brief Incremental Theory of Personality Intervention at 9-Month Follow-Up
Adriana Sum Miu, David Scott Yeager
September 15, 2014
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2167702614548317
an incremental theory of personality—the belief that people’s socially relevant characteristics have the potential to change.
an entity theory of personality—believing people cannot change
Keywords:
- cognitive theories of depression
- implicit theories
- universal prevention
- developmental psychopathology
- psychological interventions
journalistic version:
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/09/24/350933822/hearing-that-things-can-change-reduces-depression-in-teens