Ming Hong

There is relatively little research in China on the current situation and influencing factors of PTG of parents of children with autism, and the research conclusions are inconsistent. Quantitative research is difficult to deeply depict the dynamic process of PTG of parents of children with autism, and cannot deeply explore the main factors affecting PTG. However, qualitative research has a unique advantage in this regard. 15 parents of autistic children from China participated in the present study. Data collected by one to one in-depth interview which was analyzed by thematic analysis. Four themes yielded. They are: significant increase in personal strength; significant improvement in interpersonal relationships; continuously deepening life perception; worry and confusion about the child’s future. The main influencing factors of PTG of parents of autistic children include the support of significant others and the partners, family income, cultural context, social reality and parents’ roles.Parents who experience traumatic events value money more than before, which is different from previous research findings. The current status and influencing factors of PTG of Chinese parents of autistic children are different from existing research results and have the characteristics of Chinese cultural context. However, more research results are needed to test it.

This study examines the perceived stigma and its relationship to self-identity among students with hearing impairment. Students (n = 151) with hearing impairment (female = 49.67%; mean age = 13.87 years, SD = 1.26 years) completed the Individual Perceived Stigma Scale and the Self-Identity Scale. Following regression analysis, the results showed that higher devaluation and social distancing significantly lower self-identity. Furthermore, descriptive statistics showed relatively low levels of perceived stigma and an overall low level of self-identity among hearing-impaired students. The results support the disability identity theory in the Chinese cultural setting.

We examined the mediating role of proactive personality and self-identity on the relationship between mental health and parenting style among college students. Participants were 406 Chinese college students (female = 61.80%, mean age = 19.56 years, SD = 1.38 years). The students completed the following measures: Short-Egna Minnen av Barndoms Uppfostran, Proactive Personality Scale, Self-identity Status Scale, and General Health Questionnaire. Path analyses results show proactive personality to lower the risk for mental health with parental rejection, and to enhance mental health with parental warmth. A high sense of self-identity predicted good mental health among the college students, although the effect was greater for proactive personality. Moreover, proactive personality and self-identity had a significant mediating effect, enhancing mental health. Improving the mental health of college students may depend on their personality assets and the quality of parenting style they experienced.

We examined the mediating role of social support and loneliness in self-identity and internet addiction among college students. Participants were 364 Chinese college students (female = 66.50%; mean age = 20.21 years, SD = 1.51 years). The students completed the following measures: Self-identity Status Scale, Social Support Scale, UCLA Loneliness Scale, and Internet Addiction Scale. The results showed two dimensions of self-identity of future self-involvement desire and present self-involvement to significantly predict internet addiction. Self-identity not only directly influenced college students’ internet addiction, but also indirectly impacted their internet addiction through the serial mediating effects of social support and loneliness. Student development and support interventions for preventing and reducing risk for internet addiction should seek to reconstruct their self-identity; thereby increasing their social support.

This study examined self-esteem and psychological capital as a mediator of the relationship between Big Five personality traits and creativity. A convenience sample of 732 college students from Guangdong, Jiangsu, and Jiangxi provinces participated (females = 71.7%; mean age = 20.86, SD = 4.26 years). The participants completed measures of self-esteem, psychological capital, Big Five personality, and creativity. We utilised Structural Equation Modelling to determine the direct and indirect effects of self-esteem and psychological capital on Big Five personality traits and creativity. The results show that self-esteem and psychological capital directly mediated the relationship between the Big Five personality traits of neuroticism, openness, extroversion, and conscientiousness and the creativity of college students. When neuroticism is low and openness to experience scores are high, high scores on self-esteem and psychological capital predict high creativity. Self-esteem and psychological capital also mediated the relationship between extroversion and conscientiousness. Specifically, the higher the scores of extroversion and conscientiousness, the higher the level of self-esteem, psychological capital, and creativity.