This study focuses on how sport participants in general react to success and failure in competitive sport. Eighty (80) respondents who compete in sport on international, national, provincial and school level were used for this study. Data were collected by employing the Task and Ego Orientation in Sport Questionnaire (TEOSQ), the Self-Theory Questionnaire that measured if the participants have ...

► Person perception often involves comparing individual targets to reference points. ► Past work argues that difference versus similarity focus yields less stereotyping. ► We suggest this could reverse if self, rather than group, representations are focal. ► In two studies, we manipulate comparison mindset and activated representation. ► We find an interaction: impact of comparison mindset depe...

Finding creative new ideas requires both release from fixation and a productive search mindset. Recent research has shown that messy desks, walking, and mind-wandering can lead to more new uses for old objects. Here we show that a humancentric mindset is superior to mind-wandering for generating more alternative uses and more creative uses because it provides both release from fixation and an e...

According to the Rubicon Model of Action Phases (in: J. Gollwitzer, 1996), Motivation, volition, and action, Enzyclopedia of psychology, series "motivation and emotion", Vol. 4, Hogrefe, Göttingen, 1996, pp. 531-582), different stages in goal pursuit are accompanied by different mindsets that enhance processing of mindset-congruous information. Before people engage in action, they usually delib...

This study aimed to examine the quality of life in EFL classrooms by investigating relationship between foreign language enjoyment, growth mindset, and performance a public university China. The employed an explanatory sequential research design involving 388 students. data were collected via survey questionnaire, English test, interviews. findings indicated moderate as students possessed enjoy...

The human psyche is equipped with the capacity to solve similar problems in different ways. Social psychologists describe the different, complementary mental states that enable a person to reach a given end as mindsets. Mindset theories rest on the assumption that people can and do switch mindsets and that doing so requires a drastic change in perspective. Given the importance of being able to ...