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Implicit theories of intelligence across academic domains: A study of meaning making in adolescents of Mexican descent
Author(s) -
Quihuis Gisell,
Bempechat Janine,
Jimenez Norma V.,
Boulay Beth A.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
new directions for child and adolescent development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.628
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1534-8687
pISSN - 1520-3247
DOI - 10.1002/cd.45
Subject(s) - psychology , trait , meaning (existential) , implicit personality theory , theory of multiple intelligences , social psychology , human intelligence , personality , developmental psychology , computer science , psychotherapist , programming language
Abstract Research on beliefs about intelligence used questionnaires to characterize students as viewing intelligence as either a malleable quality of a fixed trait. In our study, regardless of the belief they endorsed, all students spoke about intelligence as malleable in subsequent interviews.