A5016212071- Forgiveness and Related Behaviors
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Family Dynamics and Relationships
- Conflict Management and Negotiation
- Personality Traits and Psychology
- Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Antioxidants, Aging, Portulaca oleracea
- Education and Learning Interventions
- Islamic Studies and Radicalism
- Work-Family Balance Challenges
- Health and Wellbeing Research
- Workaholism, burnout, and well-being
City University of Hong Kong
2017-2024
Chinese University of Hong Kong
2008-2023
University of Hong Kong
2017
Education University of Hong Kong
2013-2015
Virginia Commonwealth University
2012
This study adopted a spillover-crossover model to examine the roles of personality and perceived social support as antecedents work-family interface among dual-earner couples in China. Married (N = 306) from 2 major cities China (Shanghai Jinan) completed questionnaires measuring relationship-oriented trait (i.e., family orientation), work support, conflict enhancement. The results showed that orientation was positively associated with family-to-work enhancement negatively for both husbands...
How perspective-taking ability changes with age (i.e., whether older adults are better at understanding others' behaviors and intentions show greater empathy to others or not) is not clear, prior empirical findings on this phenomenon yielding mixed results. In a series of experiments, we investigated the from motivational perspective. Perceived closeness between participants experimenter (Study 1) target in an emotion recognition task 2) was manipulated examine could influence participants'...
The purpose of this paper is to discuss cultural similarities and differences in the processes forgiveness. Forgiveness a complex construct without consensual definition. Generally speaking, forgiveness process that involves change cognitions, emotions, motivations, behaviors regarding transgressor ( R. D. Enright & P. Fitzgibbons, 2000 ). Scientific interest has rapidly increased recent years, but whether conceptualizations underling mechanisms are similar across cultures still remain...
Objectives To determine whether a brief self-directed forgiveness workbook intervention could alter forgiveness, depression symptoms, and anxiety symptoms. Design A multisite randomised waitlist-controlled trial was conducted among 4598 participants. Recruitment occurred from 11 February 2020 to 30 September 2021. Final follow-up on 25 October Setting Participants were recruited community-based samples in sites Colombia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, South Africa, Ukraine. Individuals (n=7837)...
Prior research has documented a relationship between narcissism and aggression but focused only on dispositional without considering situational factors that may increase temporarily. This study explored the possibility an in state would foster aggressive responding by increasing anger hostile attributional bias following unexpected provocation among 162 college students from China. We created guided‐imagination manipulation to heighten investigated its effects anger, aroused attribution...
This study investigated the link between exposure to violence and psychosocial adjustment for 442 Chinese secondary school students in Form 1-3. The completed an inventory assessing through witnessing direct victimization different settings (community, school, home). Multiple measures informants (i.e., self-report, teacher report, report) were used assess emotional, behavioral, cognitive functioning adolescents. results of this showed that overall was related emotional behavior problems....
Objective This study investigates the efficacy of 6-hour REACH Forgiveness intervention among culturally diverse undergraduates. Method Female undergraduates (N = 102) and foreign extraction (46.2%) domestic (43.8%) students in United States were randomly assigned to immediate treatment or waitlist conditions. Treatment effect culture on response assessed using measures emotional decisional forgiveness across 3 time periods. Results Students condition reported greater improvement...
Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness of a forgiveness public health intervention at promoting forgiveness, mental health, and flourishing. Methods: Colombian students ( N = 2,878) private, nonreligious university were exposed to 4-week community campaign assessed pre- post-campaign. Results: Forgiveness, flourishing outcomes showed improvements after campaign. On average, participants reported engaging in 7.18 SD 3.99) 16 types activities. The number activities that engaged evidenced...
Forgiveness is an emotion regulation process that important for both physical and mental health. Given its benefits, studying the facilitation of forgiveness important. Researchers have already demonstrated relationship between self-control forgiveness. However, in this study, we aim to extend previous research by examining regulating processes possible mediating role self-regulatory strength University students (N = 317) Hong Kong who were recruited participate study completed online...
Importance: Forgiveness interventions have been shown in prior randomized trials to reduce depression and anxiety symptoms. Most such require trained therapists, limiting scalability. Objective: To determine whether a brief self-directed forgiveness workbook intervention could alter forgiveness, symptoms, Design: A multi-site waitlist-controlled trial was conducted among 4,598 participants. Recruitment occurred from February 11, 2020 September 30, 2021. Final follow-up occured October 25,...
The current study investigated the relationships between attachment to mother and romantic partners, role of partner support culture as moderators that relationship. University students who were currently in a relationship recruited from Hong Kong USA, completed measures on styles support. Results showed maternal anxiety was correlated with anxiety; avoidance avoidance, but this linkage varied by level Romantic also associated support, stronger for HK Chinese than Americans. These results...
Religious communities, like other are ripe for interpersonal offenses.We examined the degree to which group identification predicted forgiveness of an in-group offender.We effects a victim's perception his or her religious as state-specific personal variable on by integrating Social Identity Theory into model Relational Spirituality (Davis, Hook, & Worthington, 2008) help explain responses transgressions within context.Data were collected from members Christian congregations mid-west region...