Exploring the Interactions Between Cognitive Impairment, Depression, and Growth Mindset Among African Americans in the COVID-19 Era
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Abstract
Depression is a common and complex psychiatric disorder that can affect people of all ages, genders, and backgrounds. It is currently characterized by persistent feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and lack of interest in life (Depressive Disorders, n.d.). Depression can have an impact on an individual's attitude in life such as their growth mindset. A Growth mindset is an individual’s belief that their abilities can be developed and improved through effort and learning (Dweck, 2016). This way of thinking can lead to increased resilience, learning, and achievement. Another area that can impact depression and a growth mindset is cognitive dysfunction. Cognitive dysfunction refers to a range of difficulties in cognitive functioning, such as problems with attention, memory, and decision-making (Lam et al., 2014). This current study seeks to examine the influence of cognitive dysfunctions on the relationship between growth mindset and depression throughout the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of N = 312 African American men answered a survey using Qualtrics. Results suggest that cognitive dysfunction fully mediated the relationship between growth mindsets and depression. Findings suggest that while developing a growth mindset is important for reinforcing a resilient perspective, reducing dysfunctional cognitions may be a necessary component of growth. Keywords: African American, cognitive dysfunction, COVID-19, depression, growth mindset Sources: Lam, R. W., Kennedy, S. H., Mclntyre, R. S., & Khullar, A. (2014). Cognitive dysfunction in major depressive disorder: effects on psychosocial functioning and implications for treatment. Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie, 59(12), 649–654. https://doi.org/10.1177/070674371405901206 Depressive Disorders. Psychiatry Online. (n.d.). Retrieved March 14, 2023, from https://dsm.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.books.9780890425787.x04_Depressive_Disorders Dweck, C. (2016). What having a "growth mindset" actually means. Harvard Business Review. Retrieved March 14, 2023, from https://hbr.org/2016/01/what-having-a-growth-mindset-actually-means
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".