Mindsets and Their Effects on Health and Well-being
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Mindsets are our core assumptions regarding a domain or category (eg, intelligence, healthy eating, stress, and physical activity) [Decades of psychological research show that mindsets are critical yet often overlooked factors influencing individuals’ motivation, behavior, and performance (eg, mindsets about intelligence) [In the context of physical activity, initial research suggests that people have mindsets about their physical activity level’s adequacy and its corresponding health consequences (In experimental research, a study examined a sample of hotel room attendants who objectively met physical activity guidelines through their work but still perceived themselves as inactive as they were unaware that their work counted as exercise. An intervention informing room attendants that their work constituted adequate exercise resulted in reduced weight, body fat, and blood pressure 1 month later compared with a control group [Although these studies provide suggestive evidence that AAMs may affect health and well-being, other studies have yielded less promising results. In particular, one intervention failed to induce positive changes in mindsets about physical activity [To better understand when and why AAMs can influence health and well-being, it is important to explain Conceptual model of how activity adequacy mindset (AAM) may influence health and well-being through affective, behavioral, and physiological processes and how these are measured in this study.Second, a person’s AAM may affect their Third, a person’s AAM may induce 