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Crafting Growth Mindset

Funded by the Research Council of Finland, 2023–2027

This project aims to examine the explicit and implicit ways in which schools, teachers, and peers influence the mindsets of primary school students. It will combine analyses of large-scale survey data with new data collected through classroom observations and social network surveys. The findings will equip educators with concrete strategies to effectively implement growth mindset in their practices.

Publications

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Fang, Y., Yu, J., Toyama, H., & Salmela-Aro, K. (2025). School principals’ job burnout and job satisfaction in Finland: The impact of work–family conflict, role conflict, and sense of community. Educational Management Administration & Leadership.

Yu, J., Järvinen, J., & Salmela-Aro, K. (2025). Momentary achievement goal profiles: Associations with instructional activities, interest, and anxiety. Learning and Instruction.

Olive, K., Yu, J., Vinni-Laakso, J., & Salmela-Aro, K. (2024). Social and dimensional comparisons of achievement in multifaceted task value formation among adolescents. Learning and Individual Differences.

Altikulaç, S., Janssen, T., Yu, J., Nieuwenhuis, S., & van Atteveldt, N. (2024). Mindset profiles of secondary school students: Associations with academic achievement, motivation, and school burnout symptoms. British Journal of Educational Psychology.

Yu, J., Kreijkes, P., & Salmela-Aro, K. (2023). Interconnected trajectories of achievement goals, academic achievement, and well-being: Insights from an expanded goal framework. Learning and Individual Differences.

Yu, J., Kreijkes, P., & Salmela-Aro, K. (2022). Students' growth mindset: Relation to teacher beliefs, teaching practices, and school climate. Learning and Instruction.

Yu, J., McLellan, R., & Winter, L. (2021). Which boys and which girls are falling behind? Linking adolescents’ gender role profiles to motivation, engagement, and achievement. Journal of Youth and Adolescence.

Yu, J., & McLellan, R. (2020). Same mindset, different goals and motivational frameworks: Profiles of mindset-based meaning systems. Contemporary Educational Psychology.

Yu, J., & McLellan, R. (2019). Beyond academic achievement goals: The importance of social achievement goals in explaining gender differences in self-handicapping. Learning and Individual Differences.

Media Coverage

The Independent | Boys who defy masculine stereotypes get higher grades in GCSEs

TES | Schools must help pupils fight gender norms

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