Psychology: Techniques and Application

Psychology: Techniques and Application ›› 2025, Vol. 13 ›› Issue (11): 641-653.

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The Relationship Between Stress-Is-Enhancing Mindset and Academic Achievement: Evidence from Variable-Centered and Person-Centered Analyses

  

  1. School of Education and Psychology, University of Jinan
  • Accepted:2025-08-28 Online:2025-10-30 Published:2025-10-30

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Students’ academic achievement is an important index to measure students’ growth and development, and it is also an important indicator of school education and teaching results. Stress-is-enhancing mindset is an effective factor to improve students’ academic achievement. Exploring the relationship between stressis-enhancing mindset and academic achievement has important theoretical value and practical significance in promoting students’ academic development. A variable-centered and person-centered approach was adopted to analyze 347 college students, with the Stress Mindset Scale, Grit Scale, Learning Engagement Scale and Academic Achievement Scale being used. The results showed: (1) Stress-is-enhancing mindset was significantly positively correlated with academic achievement; (2) Grit and learning engagement played a completely mediating role between stress-is-enhancing mindset and academic achievement; (3) Stressis-enhancing mindset could also influence academic achievement through the chain mediating effect of grit and learning engagement. (4) Latent profile analysis of academic achievement scores could be divided into three profiles; Moreover, grit and learning engagement played a chain mediating role between stressis-enhancing mindset and different potential categories of academic achievement. The study revealed the psychological mechanism of the stress-is-enhancing mindset affecting academic achievement, which has a certain enlightening significance for improving the academic achievement level of college students.

Key words: stress-is-enhancing mindset, grit, learning engagement, academic achievement

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  • B844.2
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