1. Psychometric properties of the stress control mindset measure in university students from Australia and the UK
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Keech, Jacob J, Orbell, Sheina, Hagger, Martin S, O’Callaghan, Frances V, and Hamilton, Kyra
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Clinical and Health Psychology ,Psychology ,Behavioral and Social Science ,Clinical Research ,Good Health and Well Being ,Australia ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,Humans ,Psychometrics ,Reproducibility of Results ,Students ,United Kingdom ,Universities ,coping ,implicit theories ,mindset ,stress ,stress beliefs ,Neurosciences ,Cognitive Sciences ,Clinical sciences ,Biological psychology - Abstract
IntroductionBeliefs about the consequences of stress, stress mindsets, are associated with health and performance outcomes under stress. This article reports the development and examination of the psychometric properties of a measure of stress mindset: The Stress Control Mindset Measure (SCMM). The measure is consistent with theory on mindsets about self-attributes and conceptualizes stress mindset as the extent to which individuals endorse beliefs that stress can be enhancing.MethodsThe study adopted a correlational cross-sectional survey design in two student samples. Undergraduate students from an Australian university (Sample 1, N = 218) and a UK university (Sample 2, N = 214) completed the SCMM and measures of health and well-being outcomes.ResultsConfirmatory factor analyses supported a four-factor structure and strict measurement invariance across samples (ΔCFI
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- 2021