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Seo E, Lee HY, Jamieson JP, et al. Trait attributions and threat appraisals explain why an entity theory of personality predicts greater internalizing symptoms during adolescence. Dev Psychopathol. 2021;1-11doi: 10.1017/S0954579420001832.
Seo, E., Lee, H. Y., Jamieson, J. P., Reis, H., Josephs, R. A., Beevers, C. G., & Yeager, D. S. (2021). Trait attributions and threat appraisals explain why an entity theory of personality predicts greater internalizing symptoms during adolescence. Development and psychopathology, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579420001832
Seo, Eunjin, et al. "Trait attributions and threat appraisals explain why an entity theory of personality predicts greater internalizing symptoms during adolescence." Development and psychopathology vol. (2021): 1-11. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579420001832
Seo E, Lee HY, Jamieson JP, Reis H, Josephs RA, Beevers CG, Yeager DS. Trait attributions and threat appraisals explain why an entity theory of personality predicts greater internalizing symptoms during adolescence. Dev Psychopathol. 2021 Mar 23;1-11. doi: 10.1017/S0954579420001832. Epub 2021 Mar 23. PMID: 33752772; PMCID: PMC8458488.
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Dev Psychopathol. 2021 Mar 23;1-11. doi: 10.1017/S0954579420001832. Epub 2021 Mar 23.

Trait attributions and threat appraisals explain why an entity theory of personality predicts greater internalizing symptoms during adolescence.

Development and psychopathology

Eunjin Seo, Hae Yeon Lee, Jeremy P Jamieson, Harry Reis, Robert A Josephs, Christopher G Beevers, David S Yeager

Affiliations

  1. Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
  2. Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
  3. Department of Psychology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA.

PMID: 33752772 PMCID: PMC8458488 DOI: 10.1017/S0954579420001832

Abstract

Adolescents who hold an entity theory of personality - the belief that people cannot change - are more likely to report internalizing symptoms during the socially stressful transition to high school. It has been puzzling, however, why a cognitive belief about the potential for change predicts symptoms of an affective disorder. The present research integrated three models - implicit theories, hopelessness theories of depression, and the biopsychosocial model of challenge and threat - to shed light on this issue. Study 1 replicated the link between an entity theory and internalizing symptoms by synthesizing multiple datasets (N = 6,910). Study 2 examined potential mechanisms underlying this link using 8-month longitudinal data and 10-day diary reports during the stressful first year of high school (N = 533, 3,199 daily reports). The results showed that an entity theory of personality predicted increases in internalizing symptoms through tendencies to make fixed trait causal attributions about the self and maladaptive (i.e., "threat") stress appraisals. The findings support an integrative model whereby situation-general beliefs accumulate negative consequences for psychopathology via situation-specific attributions and appraisals.

Keywords: appraisals; attributions; biopsychosocial; implicit theories; internalizing symptoms

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