Igniting success: how growth mindset fuels academic achievement through self-belief and strategic effort
Xueying Li, Belal Mahmoud AlWadi, Abid Ahmad, Suad Dukhaykh, Imran Khan · 2025
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Xueying Li, Belal Mahmoud AlWadi, Abid Ahmad, Suad Dukhaykh, and Imran Khan study how a growth mindset lifts nursing students' grades, in a 2025 paper. Students who believe ability can grow tend to persist longer than those who see it as fixed. The team asked what carries that belief into real performance.
They surveyed 511 undergraduate nursing students in China, chosen at random. Modeling linked growth mindset to stronger self-belief and better control of effort, and those two in turn to higher achievement. Mindset alone was not the whole story; confidence and steady effort did the carrying. Teachers who build both the belief and the habits around it may get the largest gains.
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| CREATOR | Xueying Li, Belal Mahmoud AlWadi, Abid Ahmad, Suad Dukhaykh, Imran Khan |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 43 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |