The Bright Side of Growth Mindset of Intelligence: Three-wave Longitudinal Links with Hope, Depression, and Flourishing among Adolescents

The alarmingly high prevalence of depression and historically understudied flourishing highlight the dual challenges of improving adolescent wellbeing worldwide. Responding to these pressing issues and drawing on the dual-continua model of mental health, the present study aimed to investigate the prospective effects of growth mindset of intelligence on both depression and flourishing concurrently, while examining hope as a potential underlying pathway through the lens of positive psychology. Using cluster sampling, we conducted a three-wave, six-month-interval longitudinal survey with a sample of 3384 secondary students (43.5