Life event scaling: The Chinese experience

Chan, David; Chan-Ho, M.W.; Chan, T. S.

doi:10.1016/0277-9536(84)90060-1

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“…Negative life events A 22-item scale to measure recent experience of negative life events was constructed by reviewing the work of Cheng (1997), D. W. Chan, M. W. Chan, and T. Chan (1984), Tiet et al (2001), and Swearingen and Cohen (1985). Based on responses from a sample of 618 Chinese adolescents, Cheng developed a 44-item scale to measure subjective ratings of life events.…”

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Resilience in Young Adulthood: The Moderating Influences of Gender-related Personality Traits and Coping Flexibility

Lam

McBride‐Chang

2007

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The study was designated to explore the resilient (moderating) influences of gender-related personality traits and coping flexibility on the relations between life event stress and psychosocial adjustment in a sample of 291 Chinese young adults. Multiple outcomes (i.e., psychological, physical, and interpersonal aspects of adjustments) were separately examined with regression analysis. The interaction effects explained 5% of the unique variance in the psychological distress model and 4% of the unique variance in the interpersonal functioning model beyond the main effects. Coping flexibility tended to reduce the associations between life event stress and depression. Furthermore, masculinity buffered the link between life event stress and interpersonal functioning. The three-way interaction masculinity×femininity×stress also predicted additional unique variance in interpersonal functioning, which indicates that non-gender-typed respondents showed greater resilience to recent life stress than did their gendertyped counterparts. Implications of these findings are discussed.

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Resilience in Young Adulthood: The Moderating Influences of Gender-related Personality Traits and Coping Flexibility

Lam

McBride‐Chang

2007

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“…7Emotional Significance reflects the emotional impact and stressfulness of an event. This characteristic is mostly applied to negative life events (e.g., degree of upsettingness of an event; Chan et al, 1984) but can also be applied to positive life events (e.g., how significant is an event). Table 1 also contains other characteristics for which we were not able to identify a general category (see Column "Other").…”

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A Dimensional Taxonomy of Perceived Characteristics of Major Life Events

Luhmann¹,

Faßbender²,

Alcock³

et al. 2020

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Major life events (MLEs) are studied in many different areas in psychology such as personality development, clinical psychology, or posttraumatic growth. In all of these areas, a common finding is that MLEs differ in their effects on psychological outcomes. However, a framework that allows a systematic examination of these differences is still absent. This paper presents a systematic literature review and 4 empirical studies (Ns between 226 and 449, total N = 1,477) in which we developed and evaluated a dimensional taxonomy of nine perceived characteristics of MLEs: valence, impact, predictability, challenge, emotional significance, change in world views, social status changes, external control, and extraordinariness. These event characteristics can be measured reliably with the Event Characteristics Questionnaire (ECQ). Perceived event characteristics predicted individual differences in changes in subjective well-being in both retrospective and longitudinal data after MLEs over and above established predictors of subjective well-being such as personality and demographic characteristics. A comparison between the ECQ and established taxonomies of situation characteristics such as the DIAMONDS (Rauthmann et al., 2014) showed high conceptual and empirical convergence between some ECQ subscales (e.g., valence, challenge) with characteristics of situations, whereas other ECQ subscales (e.g., social status changes, external control) were conceptually and empirically distinct from situation characteristics. In sum, including measures of perceived event characteristics in studies on MLEs may enhance our understanding of why MLEs differ in the direction, strength, and duration of their effects on psychological outcomes.

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“…On the one hand, Chan and associates (Chan & Chan-Ho, 1983;Chan, Chan-Ho, & Chan, 1984) examined perception of the impact of various stressful life events among Chinese people and the relationship between stressful life events and depression. Although a significant association was found between stressful life events and depression, their research did not include the psychosocial variable of social support.…”

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Role of Perceived Social Support on Depression in Chinese Adolescents: A Prospective Study Examining the Buffering Model

Cheng

1997

J Applied Social Pyschol

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In response to the dearth of attempts to examine functions of perceived social support on depression in Chinese adolescents, a prospective study was conducted to examine the relationship among stressful life events, perceived social support, and depression. The present results provided support for the buffering model, indicating that the function of perceived social support in mitigating subsequent depression was prominent only under high stress levels. These results were discussed in terms of the socialized role of Chinese adolescents, as well as the function of esteem enhancement of perceived social support in alleviating depression. Reciprocal relationships between initial depression levels and subsequent levels of social support were also discussed. Possible counseling and prevention programs for Chinese adolescents are proposed.Recent Chinese research revealed that more than 20% of Chinese adolescents had symptoms of depression (e.g., Boys' and Girls' Clubs Association of Hong Kong, 1992; Shek, 199 la). As the underlying causes are scrutinized, depression for Chinese adolescents is most commonly related to problematic relations with family, friends, or romantic partners

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Life event scaling: The Chinese experience

Cited by 9 publications

References 18 publications

Resilience in Young Adulthood: The Moderating Influences of Gender-related Personality Traits and Coping Flexibility

Resilience in Young Adulthood: The Moderating Influences of Gender-related Personality Traits and Coping Flexibility

A Dimensional Taxonomy of Perceived Characteristics of Major Life Events

Role of Perceived Social Support on Depression in Chinese Adolescents: A Prospective Study Examining the Buffering Model

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