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Direct linkDatu, Jesus Alfonso D.; Yuen, Mantak; Fung, Eric; Zhang, Jiahong; Chan, Serene; Wu, Florence – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2022
Passion and perseverance for long-term goals (often referred to as grit) has been found to be associated with well-being in typically developing students and adults. However, previous studies primarily relied on a two-factor model of grit, underpinned by "perseverance of effort" and "consistency of interests." This model has…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Resilience (Psychology), Personality Traits, Self Efficacy
Yuen, Mantak; Chan, Ryder T. H.; Zhang, Jiahong; Fung, Eric; Chan, Serene – Gifted and Talented International, 2023
Meaning in Life Children Questionnaire (MIL-CQ) was developed with reference to Frankl's meaning triangle that has dimensions of Attitude, Creativity, and Experience. The current study translated MIL-CQ into Chinese (MIL-CQ-C), and evaluated its psychometric properties in a sample of 264 upper primary and secondary school gifted students in Hong…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Test Validity, Chinese, Foreign Countries
Yuen, Mantak; Datu, Jesus Alfonso D. – School Psychology International, 2021
Limited research has been conducted so far to explore how meaning in life can promote key academic and psychological benefits in a school context. The research reported here aimed to address this issue by assessing how meaning in life is associated with dimensions of connectedness, academic self-efficacy (Study 1) and personal self-efficacy (Study…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Well Being, Parent Student Relationship, Teacher Student Relationship
Yuen, Mantak; Lee, Queenie A. Y.; Chung, Y. B. – Pastoral Care in Education, 2021
A student's 'meaning in life' and his/her connectedness to school, friends and family are believed to be factors that influence the development of life skills. Teachers could be aware of these factors in their endeavours to foster 'whole-person development' in their students. In this small-scale study, twelve secondary school teachers participated…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Life Satisfaction, Peer Relationship, Parent Student Relationship
Datu, Jesus Alfonso D.; Yuen, Mantak; Chen, Gaowei – School Psychology Quarterly, 2018
Previous investigations mostly relied on the two-factor model of grit (with "perseverance of effort" and "consistency of interests" as major dimensions) which received a number criticisms in the extant literature. Recent studies have provided promising lines of evidence regarding the "triarchic model of grit" (TMG)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Females, Resilience (Psychology)
Lam, Cici Sze-ching; Yeung, Patcy P. S.; Yuen, Mantak – Journal of Psychologists and Counsellors in Schools, 2018
This report is part of a larger project investigating school satisfaction of early adolescents in Hong Kong. The research questions in this part of the study focused on the school experience of 21 high-ability Chinese students aged 9-14 in Hong Kong primary and secondary schools. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with each of the…
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Foreign Countries, High Achievement, Preadolescents
Kwan, Anderson C. K.; Yuen, Mantak – Gifted and Talented International, 2013
The authors report on the implementation of an enrichment programme titled "Mathematics in the Workplace" for mathematically talented students, aged 8 to 12 years, who were studying in Primary 3 to Primary 6 classes in Hong Kong. The aim of the pilot programme was to enable gifted learners to make connections between mathematics and its…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Grade 4
Wang, Kenneth T.; Yuen, Mantak; Slaney, Robert B. – Counseling Psychologist, 2009
This study investigates the cross-cultural construct validity of perfectionism using the Chinese translation of the Almost Perfect Scale-Revised (APS-R; Slaney, Mobley, Trippi, Ashby, & Johnson, 1996) with 509 Chinese high school students from Hong Kong. The factor structure of the Chinese APS-R and correlations between the APS-R subscales and…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Construct Validity, Factor Structure, Emotional Adjustment
