@article{orvidas_burnette_schleider_skelton_moses_dunsmore_2020, title={Healthy Body, Healthy Mind: A Mindset Intervention for Obese Youth}, volume={181}, ISSN={["1940-0896"]}, url={http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85088948544&partnerID=MN8TOARS}, DOI={10.1080/00221325.2020.1796573}, abstractNote={Abstract As growth mindset intervention research continues to develop, more work is needed to understand how to most effectively implement these interventions to encourage healthy cognitions and behaviors. The present study details the initial testing of a single-session, online mindset intervention (Healthy Body, Healthy Mind) for obese children and adolescents enrolled in obesity treatment clinics. Using a pre to post-test design, results indicated that growth mindsets of health and cognitions related to health behavior (nutrition and exercise self-efficacy and perceived control) increased significantly. However, despite efforts to mitigate feelings of culpability, blame also increased from pretest to post-test. Yet, body dissatisfaction decreased significantly. Intrinsic value for health behaviors remained unchanged from pretest to post-test. Analysis of narratives suggests that youth were engaged with the intervention content. Additionally, when youth’s narratives incorporated themes related to the changeable nature of the attribute, they also self-reported stronger growth mindsets. In the discussion, we note implications of findings for the development of large-scale health-based growth mindset interventions that are developmentally-appropriate for children and adolescents.}, number={6}, journal={JOURNAL OF GENETIC PSYCHOLOGY}, author={Orvidas, K. and Burnette, J. L. and Schleider, J. L. and Skelton, J. A. and Moses, M. and Dunsmore, J. C.}, year={2020}, pages={443–457} }
 @article{hoyt_burnette_thomas_orvidas_2019, title={Public Health Messages and Weight-Related Beliefs: Implications for Well-Being and Stigma}, volume={10}, ISSN={["1664-1078"]}, url={http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85077361956&partnerID=MN8TOARS}, DOI={10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02806}, abstractNote={Across two studies, we examined the double-edged sword hypothesis, which outlines effects of weight-related beliefs and public health messages on physical and mental health. The double-edged sword hypothesis proposes that growth mindsets and messages (weight is changeable) predict reduced well-being and stigma via an increase in blame, but also predict greater well-being via an increase in efficacy and less stigma via a reduction in essentialist thinking. We tested this model in a correlational study (N = 311) and in an experimental study, randomly assigning participants (N = 392) to different weight-based public health messages. In Study 1, growth mindsets predicted greater onset blame and more offset efficacy. Blame did not predict any of the outcomes. However, offset efficacy predicted reduced risk for eating disorders, fewer unhealthy weight control behaviors, and less psychological distress. And, growth mindsets had a negative indirect effect on outcomes. In Study 2, we experimentally demonstrated that a changeable message about the nature of weight, designed to also reduce blame, indirectly decreased eating disorder risk, unhealthy weight control behaviors, body shame, and prejudice through increased offset efficacy and decreased social essentialism. This work contributes to our theoretical understanding of the psychological consequences of weight beliefs and messages on well-being and stigma.}, journal={FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY}, author={Hoyt, Crystal L. and Burnette, Jeni L. and Thomas, Fanice and Orvidas, Kasey}, year={2019}, month={Dec} }
 @article{burnette_russell_hoyt_orvidas_widman_2018, title={An online growth mindset intervention in a sample of rural adolescent girls}, volume={88}, ISSN={["2044-8279"]}, url={http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85048912279&partnerID=MN8TOARS}, DOI={10.1111/bjep.12192}, abstractNote={BACKGROUND
Students living in rural areas of the United States exhibit lower levels of educational attainment than their suburban counterparts. Innovative interventions are needed to close this educational achievement gap.


AIMS
We investigated whether an online growth mindset intervention could be leveraged to promote academic outcomes.


SAMPLE
We tested the mindset intervention in a sample of 222 10th-grade adolescent girls (M age = 15.2; 38% White, 25% Black, 29% Hispanic) from four rural, low-income high schools in the Southeastern United States.


METHODS
We conducted a randomized controlled trial to test the efficacy of the growth mindset intervention, relative to a sexual health programme. We used random sampling and allocation procedures to assign girls to either the mindset intervention (n = 115) or an attention-matched control programme (n = 107). We assessed participants at pre-test, immediate post-test, and 4-month follow-up.


RESULTS
Relative to the control condition, students assigned to the mindset intervention reported stronger growth mindsets at immediate post-test and 4-month follow-up. Although the intervention did not have a total effect on academic attitudes or grades, it indirectly increased motivation to learn, learning efficacy and grades via the shifts in growth mindsets.


CONCLUSIONS
Results indicate that this intervention is a promising method to encourage growth mindsets in rural adolescent girls.}, number={3}, journal={BRITISH JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY}, publisher={Wiley}, author={Burnette, Jeni L. and Russell, Michelle V. and Hoyt, Crystal L. and Orvidas, Kasey and Widman, Laura}, year={2018}, month={Sep}, pages={428–445} }
 @article{orvidas_burnette_russell_2018, title={Mindsets applied to fitness: Growth beliefs predict exercise efficacy, value and frequency}, volume={36}, ISSN={["1878-5476"]}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2018.02.006}, DOI={10.1016/j.psychsport.2018.02.006}, abstractNote={Two studies examined if individuals’ implicit theories, or mindsets, of fitness predict exercise behavior and whether self-efficacy and self-value mediated this relationship. Study 1 was a correlational study (n = 117) in which participants completed measures of mindsets of fitness, physical exercise self-efficacy, fitness self-value and exercising frequency. In Study 2, an experimental study (N = 314), participants were randomly assigned to read a news article portraying fitness as either malleable (growth condition) or static (fixed condition). Participants again completed measures of mindsets, physical exercise self-efficacy, and fitness self-value as well as future exercise intentions. In Study 1, mindsets of fitness predicted exercise frequency, with stronger growth mindsets positively relating to self-reports of exercise frequency. And, self-efficacy and self-value mediated this relationship. In Study 2, we successfully manipulated fitness mindsets. Self-reported growth mindsets of fitness predicted greater exercise intentions and self-efficacy and self-value mediated this relationship. However, the manipulation failed to predict exercise intentions. Study 1 provided initial support for the relationship between stronger growth mindsets of fitness and greater exercise efficacy, value and past exercise frequency. Study 2 offered experimental evidence of the potential to foster stronger growth mindsets. We discuss implications for future intervention development.}, journal={PSYCHOLOGY OF SPORT AND EXERCISE}, publisher={Elsevier BV}, author={Orvidas, K. and Burnette, J. L. and Russell, V. M.}, year={2018}, month={May}, pages={156–161} }
 @article{ehrlinger_burnette_park_harrold_orvidas_2017, title={Incremental theories of weight and healthy eating behavior}, volume={47}, ISSN={["1559-1816"]}, url={http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85017539871&partnerID=MN8TOARS}, DOI={10.1111/jasp.12439}, abstractNote={We examined whether a belief in weight as malleable (an incremental theory) leads to healthier eating than a belief that weight is fixed (an entity theory). Participants with incremental theories of weight consumed fewer calories from high-calorie foods in a lab-based taste test than did those with more entity theories of weight. This pattern held correlationally, with naturallyoccurring theories of weight (Study 1), and when we experimentally manipulated participants’ theories of weight (Study 2). A third study provided evidence that differences in self-efficacy regarding food mediate the relationship between theories of weight and eating behavior (Study 3). One way to encourage healthy eating might be to develop interventions that encourage more incremental views of weight.}, number={6}, journal={JOURNAL OF APPLIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY}, author={Ehrlinger, Joyce and Burnette, Jeni L. and Park, Jina and Harrold, Mycah L. and Orvidas, Kasey}, year={2017}, month={Jun}, pages={320–330} }