ICPS

2023 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2023

Growth Mindset Intervention Among Hungarian Engineering Students

Brussels, Belgium · March 2023

poster · Social Psychology

  • Janos Salamon
    Budapest University of Technology and Economics
  • Janos Salamon
    Artois University
  • Janos Salamon
    ELTE Eötvös Loránd University
  • Gabor Orosz
    Artois University

Abstract

First-year engineering students (N=499) participated in a randomized controlled trial growth mindset intervention. The growth mindset treatment increased the grades of the students by 0.23 standard deviation in contrast to the control condition. Among female students, this difference was even larger (d=0.46) than among male students (d=0.19).

Prevention/Intervention