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Kuan, Tat-Yeung James; Zhang, Li-Fang – Educational Psychology, 2022
Four hundred and twelve secondary school students in Hong Kong responded to the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (ZTPI), the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS), and the Temporal Satisfaction with Life Scale (TSWLS) to examine the relationship between time perspective and subjective well-being. Past-Positive, Present-Hedonistic, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Affective Measures, Well Being
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Chan, David W. – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2013
This study investigated whether gratitude and forgiveness contribute to subjective well-being (life satisfaction, positive affect, and negative affect) above the contribution of the three orientations to happiness in a sample of 143 Hong Kong Chinese teachers. Gratitude and forgiveness correlated substantially and significantly with each other,…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Well Being, Affective Behavior, Foreign Countries
Zhang, Chun-Qing; Chung, Pak-Kwong; Si, Gangyan; Liu, Jing Dong – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2014
The purpose of the present study was to examine the psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II (AAQ-II) across two samples of Chinese college students (n = 183 and n = 366) and a sample of elite Chinese athletes (n = 330). Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses supported the existence of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Psychometrics, Test Validity
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Siu, Andrew M. H.; Shek, Daniel T. L. – Social Indicators Research, 2010
Social problem solving is the cognitive-affective-behavioral process by which people attempt to resolve real-life problems in a social environment, and is of key importance in the management of emotions and well-being. This paper reviews a series of studies on social problem solving conducted by the authors. First, we developed and validated the…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Self Efficacy, Adolescents, Young Adults
Chan, David W. – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2007
This study evaluated the viability of using a self-report instrument to assess separately the positive form and negative form of perfectionism among 317 Chinese gifted students in Hong Kong. These students tended to endorse positive perfectionism more than negative perfectionism. Positive and negative perfectionism were also found to relate…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Life Satisfaction, Self Efficacy, Foreign Countries