Professor Jeni L Burnette on how to increase your growth mindset for mental health, the importance of viewing challenges as opportunities, how a fixed mindset for anxiety can hold you back and much more...

Jeni is a professor in the department of Psychology at North Carolina State University. Her research is focused on understanding how to implement growth mindset interventions. She has published over 60 journal articles and her work has been featured in New York Times and Huffington Post.

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Chapters

0:00 Show Intro

1:25 What are GMs? 

4:20 GMs for MH

7:38 Mindsets for Anxiety

11:00 Appraising Threats

14:44 Benefits of a GM 

18:40 Beliefs about the cause of diseases

21:40 The role of environments in GMs 

24:35 Changing your mindset

Further Resources

Jeni's website https://www.jeniburnette.com/

"Growth mindset of anxiety buffers the link between stressful life events and psychological distress and coping strategies" (2017) by Schroder et. al.

"Obesity is a disease" examining the self-regulatory impact of this public-health message (2014) by Hoyt et. al.

"A systematic review and meta-analysis of growth mindset interventions. For whom, how and why might such interventions work?" (2023) by Burnette et. al.

"Implicit theories of body weight: Entity beliefs can weigh you down" (2010) by Burnette