Shyness Mindset Scale (SMS)

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Instrument Overview

The Shyness Mindset Scale (Valentiner et al., 2011) is an open-source 4-item measure of perceptions about social interaction and competence as well as specific beliefs regarding shyness in social settings. This measure was developed in the context of a study that applied mindset theory to the domain of inhibited social behavior using a sample of 93 incoming college freshmen. It was adapted from Dweck's work on mindset for intelligence (Hong, Chiu, Dweck, Lin, & Wan, 1999).

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Organization

Student Well-Being Category

American Institutes for Research® partnered with the Annenberg Institute at Brown University to collect instruments related to student well-being.

Content

Grades
Post secondary
Keywords
Student Well-Being ; Social-Emotional Competence ; Relationship Skills ; Self Awareness ; Self Management ; Social Awareness ; Shyness ; Fixed/Growth Mindset ; Mindset theory ; Inhibited social behavior ; College belongingness
Languages
English
Respondent
Student

Administration Information

Length
4 items
Administration
Paper

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Setting
Undefined

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Psychometric References

Valentiner, D. P., Mounts, N. S., Durik, A. M., & Gier-Lonsway, S. L. (2011). Shyness mindset: Applying mindset theory to the domain of inhibited social behavior. Personality and Individual Differences, 50(8), 1174-1179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2011.01.021