TABLE 2.

Summary statistics and mean inter-item correlations of implicit theories measures.

Implicit theories domains	Number of item	Likert-scale	M (SD)	Mean inter-item correlations (min, max)
				Within-subscale	Between-subscale
Study 1 (N = 183)	23	1–7
Emotion	4		2.91 (0.72)	0.12 (0.01, 0.35)	0.12 (−0.16, 0.34)
Intelligence	3		3.57 (1.35)	0.66 (0.54, 0.73)	0.18 (−0.04, 0.48)
Personality	4		4.05 (0.95)	0.35 (0.03, 0.65)	0.14 (−0.06, 0.48)
Cognition	4		2.78 (0.85)	0.41 (0.24, 0.50)	0.18 (−0.05, 0.44)
Behaviors	4		2.80 (0.80)	0.39 (0.23, 0.51)	0.13 (−0.16, 0.38)
Feeling	4		3.15 (0.93)	0.42 (0.27, 0.56)	0.19 (−0.04, 0.44)
Study 2 (N = 146)	23	1–7
Intelligence	3		3.55 (1.37)	0.80 (0.76, 0.82)	0.12 (−0.06, 0.26)
Personality	4		3.81 (0.97)	0.38 (0.08, 0.68)	0.15 (−0.06, 0.39)
Cognition	4		2.83 (0.81)	0.42 (0.31, 0.52)	0.24 (−0.04, 0.62)
Behaviors	4		2.86 (0.88)	0.49 (0.30, 0.60)	0.26 (−0.06, 0.62)
Feeling	4		3.17 (0.94)	0.41 (0.26, 0.60)	0.22 (−0.11, 0.58)
Emotion	4		2.83 (0.91)	0.32 (0.08, 0.60)	0.12 (−0.16, 0.34)
Study 3 (N = 355)	18	1–6
Intelligence	3		3.36 (0.96)	0.73 (0.71, 0.75)	0.17 (0.02, 0.32)
Personality	3		4.05 (0.93)	0.66 (0.63, 0.68)	0.12 (−0.03, 0.32)
Cognition	3		2.52 (0.66)	0.48 (0.45, 0.51)	0.23 (0.05, 0.46)
Behaviors	3		2.48 (0.68)	0.49 (0.43, 0.53)	0.18 (0.00, 0.46)
Feeling	3		2.89 (0.81)	0.60 (0.55, 0.67)	0.22 (0.05, 0.43)
Emotion	3		2.48 (0.81)	0.44 (0.24, 0.69)	0.19 (−0.03, 0.43)
Study 4 (N = 1,731)	18	1–6
Intelligence	3		3.44 (0.96)	0.64 (0.60, 0.67)	0.15 (0.07, 0.30)
Personality	3		4.13 (0.91)	0.62 (0.60, 0.65)	0.12 (−0.02, 0.30)
Cognition	3		2.70 (0.73)	0.56 (0.54, 0.57)	0.25 (0.01, 0.51)
Behaviors	3		2.66 (0.71)	0.47 (0.37, 0.54)	0.22 (−0.02, 0.51)
Feeling	3		2.98 (0.88)	0.61 (0.57, 0.69)	0.24 (0.04, 0.45)
Emotion	3		2.53 (0.77)	0.41 (0.28, 0.51)	0.21 (0.06, 0.37)

M, mean of the subscale score; SD, standard deviation of the subscale score.