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Effect of Emotion Mindsets on Emotion Processing

NCT03978871 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 163

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Summary

The guiding scientific premise for this research is that a growth emotion mindset will promote more adaptive emotion processing than a fixed emotion mindset. Because emotional sensitivity is particularly salient in adolescent girls, we will focus on this group. Using an experimental design, adolescent girls will be randomly assigned to either a mindset manipulation or a control group (brain education). Each group will complete a 25-minute computer-based lesson followed by a social stressor and a functional magnetic resonance imaging session. Two specific aims will be addressed: (1) to determine whether a growth mindset induction, relative to a control condition, predicts more adaptive emotion processing at the neural, behavioral, and psychological levels of processing; and (2) to determine whether neural processing of emotion accounts for the effect of a growth emotion mindset manipulation on behavioral and psychological processing of emotion. This study builds on a strong empirical database establishing the effect of mindsets on multiple domains of functioning but will be the first to examine the implications of a growth vs. fixed mindset about emotion for emotion processing in adolescent girls, thereby elucidating one specific youth attribute that can support or disrupt emotional development.

Conditions

  • Emotions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Growth Mindset

Growth emotion mindset induction

BEHAVIORAL

Brain Education

Brain education

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Auburn University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Karen D Rudolph, PhD · University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
13 Years
Max Age
18 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-08-27
Primary Completion
2022-06-27
Completion
2022-10-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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