Using Shattered Assumption Theory to Understand How Cyberbullying Victimization is Linked With Perceived Control Among Chinese College Students

2021 ◽  
pp. 088626052110425
Author(s):  
Hongxia Wang ◽  
Li Zhou ◽  
Li Lei
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Perceived Control ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
Basic Psychological Needs ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Chinese College Students ◽  
Indirect Connection ◽  
Personal Belief

Perceived control (PC) is considered as one of the most basic psychological needs of human beings, and it is also an important index to measure individual mental health. Previous studies have shown that negative life experience is an important risk factor for predicting PC. With the prevalence of cyberbullying among college students, this study explored how cybervictimization (CV) was related to the PC, mediated through the personal belief in a just world (PBJW). Besides, this study examined the moderating role of interpersonal forgiveness (IF) in the direct relationship between CV and PC and the indirect connection through PBJW. It was expected that CV would negatively predict the PC, and the PBJW would mediate this relationship. The direct and indirect effects were stronger in individuals with low IF than those with high IF. In this study, 837 Chinese college students were invited to conduct an online survey using a convenient sampling method. Participants were asked to complete the measurement of CV, PBJW, IF, and PC. After controlling gender and age, the results revealed that CV could directly and negatively predict college students’ PC and indirectly predict the PC through the mediation of PBJW. Additionally, IF moderated the effect of CV on PBJW and PC. Unlike what we expected, the effect of CV on PBJW was stronger for low IF individuals than those with high IF, while the effect of CV on PC was stronger for high IF individuals than those with low IF. The unexpected orientation and other results were discussed.

scholarly journals Mitigating Academic Boredom and Increasing Well-Being Among Chinese College Students Based on a Positive Education Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 91
Author(s):  
Zheng Jie ◽  
Samsilah Roslan ◽  
Mohd.Mokhtar Muhamad ◽  
Mas Nida Md Khambari ◽  
Zeinab Zaremohzzabieh
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Intrinsic Motivation ◽  
Academic Outcomes ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
Value Theory ◽  
Basic Psychological Needs ◽  
Positive Education ◽  
Chinese College Students

Academic boredom is negatively related to students’ academic outcomes like intrinsic motivation. Positive education is dedicated to improving both students’ academic outcomes and wellbeing. In this study, China’s “6+2” positive education model was adopted to develop an intervention program that aimed to reduce academic boredom and improve positive emotions, thought-action repertoires, and intrinsic motivation. Theoretically, this emotion-oriented treatment is expected to cultivate positive emotions to broaden students’ attention scope, widen their thought and action repertoires, facilitate intrinsic motivation and build up enduring psychological resources that help them better cope with negative emotions like academic boredom and trigger upward spirals toward emotional wellbeing. This proposed model fills a research gap in existing interventions and provides new theoretical knowledge in terms of reducing academic boredom and improving academic success as well as wellbeing among Chinese college students. The theoretical framework of this study consisted of the broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions, basic psychological needs theory, and the control-value theory of academic emotions.   Received: 11 August 2021 / Accepted: 3 October 2021 / Published: 5 November 2021

scholarly journals The Influence of Flow Experience on Online Consumers’ Information Searching Behavior: An Empirical Study of Chinese College Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 250-257
Author(s):  
Lin Wang ◽  
Suhan Wang
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Perceived Control ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Flow Experience ◽  
Searching Behavior ◽  
Information Searching ◽  
Chinese College Students ◽  
Online Consumers ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Information Searching Behavior

AbstractWith the rapid development of the online shopping market in recent years, flow theory has become one of the main theories used to explore online consumers’ shopping behaviors. Although flow experience may influence information searching behavior, little is known about this topic. This study explored the impacts of flow experience on online consumers’ information searching behavior in festival shopping. The questionnaire survey was conducted in several universities in China. The data, collected from 154 college students, were analyzed quantitatively. As the three key components of flow experience, perceived pleasure has negative effect on information searching frequency, whereas concentration has positive effect on information searching frequency. Perceived control does not have a significant impact on information searching frequency. It also revealed consumers’ information searching behavior positively affecting their purchase intentions in this special shopping context. We found that flow experience is an important psychological factor influencing online consumers’ information searching behavior. The study enriches the emotional dimension of information behavior model and provides insight into the relationships between positive psychological variables with flow experience as the representation and information searching behavior in shopping context.

scholarly journals Assessing the Relationship between Autonomy Support and Student Group Cohesion across Ibero-American Countries

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (11) ◽  
pp. 3981
Author(s):  
Juan Antonio Moreno-Murcia ◽  
Elisa Huéscar Hernández ◽  
Luís Cid ◽  
Diogo Monteiro ◽  
Filipe Rodrigues ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Intrinsic Motivation ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Autonomy Support ◽  
Group Cohesion ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
Basic Psychological Needs ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Needs Satisfaction ◽  
Perceived Autonomy Support

Teacher-endorsed supporting behaviors present themselves as key influencers of student adaptive academic and social functions. The objective of this paper was twofold. First, this study sought to test a model in which student-perceived autonomy support was associated with group cohesion, considering the mediating role of basic psychological needs satisfaction and intrinsic motivation. Second, the current study examined the dimensionality of the model across five Western countries, namely Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico. A convenience sample of 3033 college students (Mage = 21.51 ± SD = 3.71) were recruited for the analysis. The results revealed that perceived autonomy support was positively associated with needs satisfaction, being consequently associated with intrinsic motivation and, ultimately, with group cohesion. Additionally, a multigroup analysis revealed that the model was invariant across college students from the different countries. The current results are discussed around the promotion of teacher uses of autonomy-supportive behaviors fostering adaptive outcomes in students regarding positive social relations and that the cultures of Ibero-American countries are equivalent in this process.

scholarly journals The interplay between psychological need satisfaction and psychological need frustration within a work context: A variable and person-oriented approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter C. Rouse ◽  
Philip J. F. Turner ◽  
Andrew G. Siddall ◽  
Julia Schmid ◽  
Martyn Standage ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Health ◽  
Psychological Functioning ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Psychological Symptoms ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
Need Satisfaction ◽  
Basic Psychological Needs ◽  
Psychological Need ◽  
Need Frustration ◽  
Psychological Need Satisfaction

AbstractA plethora of empirical data support a positive (or “brighter”) pathway to optimal human functioning as specified within Basic Psychological Needs Theory (Ryan and Deci in Psychol Inq 11(4):319–33, 2000). Yet, far less is known about the negative (or “darker”) pathway, a process evoking of human dysfunction and ill-being (cf. Vansteenkiste and Ryan in J Psychother Integr 23(3):263, 2013). Further, debate surrounds the independence and interplay between psychological need satisfaction and psychological need frustration and how these dynamic constructs are experienced within individuals. In this work, variable and person-oriented analyses were employed to: (i) investigate the relationships between the basic psychological needs and symptoms of stress, depression and anxiety as well as with life satisfaction; and (ii) identify different psychological need profiles and their relationship with psychological function. Participants (N = 2236; M Age = 42.16 years; SD = 7.8) were UK-based operational firefighters who completed an online survey. Results of regression analyses showed a moderating effect of psychological need satisfaction on the relationship between need frustration and negative psychological symptoms. Latent profile analyses revealed five distinct basic psychological need profiles that carry implications for human psychological functioning. Some support for an asymmetrical relationship between need satisfaction and need frustration emerged (Vansteenkiste and Ryan in J Psychother Integr 23(3):263, 2013), yet, examples of above average need satisfaction and frustration scores were also observed. Worker profiles where psychological need frustration prevailed over need satisfaction had the poorest psychological health.

scholarly journals Being active during lockdown: the recovery potential of physical activity for well-being

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clément Ginoux ◽  
Sandrine Isoard-Gautheur ◽  
Claudia Teran-Escobar ◽  
Cyril Forestier ◽  
Aïna Chalabaev ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Latent Variable ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
Need Satisfaction ◽  
Basic Psychological Needs ◽  
Subjective Vitality ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Recovery Experiences

Objective. To examine the indirect relationships between physical activity, and well-being (i.e., need satisfaction, subjective vitality, and stress) of individuals, through recovery experiences (i.e., detachment from lockdown, relaxation, mastery and control over leisure time) during the spring 2020 COVID-19 lockdown.Design. Cross-sectional.Methods. 405 participants answered an online survey including questions on physical activity, recovery experiences, subjective vitality, perceived stress and basic psychological needs satisfaction. Structural equation modelling tested a full-mediated model in which physical activity predicted recovery experience, which in turn predicted well-being.Results. Physical activity was positively related to a latent variable representing recovery experiences, which in turn was positively related to a latent variable representing well-being.Conclusions. Physical activity carried out regularly during the COVID-19 lockdown predicted positively well-being through recovery experiences. The study results highlight the importance of maintaining or increasing physical activity during periods when recovery experiences and well-being may be threatened.

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