Navigational Growth Mindset Scale (He & Hegarty, 2020)
All statements are answered on a 7-point agreement scale. A higher average score indicates more navigational growth mindset (i.e., they believe that navigation is an ability that can be improved), and a lower average score indicates less navigational growth mindset (i.e., they do not believe that navigation ability can be improved/it is more stable or fixed). Unless otherwise specified in the statements below, the responses are scored in the following manner:
- Strongly agree (1)
- Agree (2)
- Somewhat agree (3)
- Neither agree nor disagree (4)
- Somewhat disagree (5)
- Disagree (6)
- Strongly disagree (7)
Participants are given the following instructions, with 8 statements:
Please indicate the extent to which you agree or disagree with the following statements:
1. I have a certain amount of navigation ability, and I can’t really do much to change it.
2. My navigation ability is something about me that I can’t change very much.
3. To be honest, I can’t really change how good I am at tasks related to navigation ability.
4. I can gradually get familiar with a new environment, but I can’t really change my basic navigation ability.
5. No matter who I am, I can significantly change my navigation ability. (reverse-scored)
6. I can always substantially change how good I am at navigating. (reverse-scored)
7. No matter how much navigation ability I have I can always change it quite a bit. (reverse-scored)
8. I can change even my basic navigation ability considerably. (reverse-scored)