Is children’s intelligence malleable? Parental perspectives on implicit theories of intelligence

This study set out to examine a little-researched topic: parents’ theories of the malleability of children’s intelligence. The aim of the study was to examine the structure and the reliability of a questionnaire concerning the malleability of intelligence, based on Dweck’s (1999) theory and sent to a sample of Finnish parents. Further points of interest were whether the parents held incremental theories rather than entity theories of children’s...