Psychological Development and Education ›› 2018, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (5): 586-594.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2018.05.09

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The Influence of Intelligence and Personality Implicit Theories on College Students' Coping Styles and Depression: Variable-oriented and Person-oriented Analyses

HU Xinyi1, CHEN Yinghe2   

  1. 1. The Psychological Quality Education Centre, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044;
    2. Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
  • Published:2018-10-25

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Abstract: The present study aimed at exploring the influence of college students' intelligence and personality implicit theories on coping style and depression. 624 college students completed Theories of Intelligence and Personality Questionnaire, Coping Style Questionnaire and CES-D Scale. The results were as follows:(1) Variable-oriented analyses revealed that college students' implicit theories of intelligence and personality predicted positive coping style significantly. (2) Person-oriented analyses revealed that college students could be divided into four types according to implicit theories by Latent Profile Analysis. The four types were named as entity intelligence and personality theory type, moderate intelligence and personality theory type, incremental intelligence/malleable personality theory type, and entity intelligence/malleable personality theory type separately. The four groups exhibited significant difference on scores of intelligence implicit theories. The four groups also exhibited significant difference on scores of personality implicit theories, except the difference between incremental intelligence/malleable personality theory type and entity intelligence/malleable personality theory type. (3) College students with incremental intelligence/malleable personality theory type exhibited significantly higher positive coping style and significantly lower negative coping style and depression than the other three types. Students with entity intelligence/malleable personality theory type exhibited significantly higher negative coping style and depression than the other three types.

Key words: implicit theory of intelligence, implicit theory of personality, coping style, depression, college students

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