Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between mother’s and adolescent’s failure mindset, along with the mediating effects of mother’s happiness and mother-adolescent open communication. For this study, self-reported data of 270 mother-adolescent dyads were analyzed using SPSS and Process macro. The results revealed that mother’s failure mindset directly predicted adolescent’s failure mindset and the mediating effect of mother-adolescent open communication was significant although the mediating effect of mother’s happiness was not significant. Furthermore, the mediation effect of mother’s failure mindset on adolescent’s failures mindset through mother’s happiness and mother-adolescent open communication was also significant. These results suggest that “failure-is-enhancing“ mindset of mother improved mother’s positive affect and parenting skills, which contributes to developing adolescent’s belief system about failure. Putting the results together, this study has its significant in that it identified the intergenerational relationship of failure mindset.