scholarly journals Exploring Attachment and Spirituality among Christians in China

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Honghong Xu ◽  
Jenny Pak ◽  
Ruina Tu ◽  
Mary Schuberg
Keyword(s):  
Parenting Styles ◽  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Parental Attachment ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Correspondence Theory ◽  
God Attachment ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Chinese Characteristic ◽  
Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory ◽  
Relationship Structures

As research on attachment has exploded, theories and studies on attachment and spirituality also flourished in the west. In contrast, similar researches are scarce in China. Are the attachment theories and measurements applicable universally? Are there any links between parental attachment and God attachment? The present study used mixed methods to examine these questions. First, 355 Christians from Mainland China finished the Relationship Structures Questionnaire (ECR-RS), Attachment to God Inventory, God Image Scales, and Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory-2. Next, a sample of 11 participants were purposefully selected for face-to-face interviews to provide an in-depth understanding of the phenomenon through their life stories and spiritual experiences. Survey results showed significant correlations between parental attachment and spirituality and supported the correspondence theory. Additionally, the higher scores on traditional cultural personality traits correlated with higher scores on insecure attachment. Analysis of themes across 11 cases further revealed patterns between secure/insecure parental attachment and God attachment. Application of western attachment scales in the context of Chinese characteristic parenting styles are discussed.

Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory--English Version

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fanny M. Cheung ◽  
Shu Fai Cheung ◽  
Kwok Leung ◽  
Colleen Ward ◽  
Frederick Leong
Keyword(s):  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Personality Assessment Inventory ◽  
English Version ◽  
Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory

Preferences for Feeding Tube Use and Their Determinants Among Cognitively Intact Nursing Home Residents in Wuhan, China: A Cross-Sectional Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ping Ni ◽  
Eunjeong Ko ◽  
Jing Mao
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Home ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Nursing Home Residents ◽  
Feeding Tube ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Chinese Older Adults ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Advance Care

Introduction: Standard advance care planning practice is yet to be established in Mainland, China, and little is known about feeding tube preferences among Chinese nursing home residents. The purpose of the study was to examine preferences for feeding tube use and its predictors among frail and cognitively competent nursing home residents in Wuhan, China. Method: A cross-sectional sample of 682 nursing home residents were interviewed face-to-face using a structured questionnaire from 2012 to 2014. Results: A total of 54.5% of participants would accept feeding tube. Participants who reported greater quality of life (odds ratio [OR] = 2.67), having health insurance (OR = 2.09) were more willing to accept feeding tube. Participants with greater impairment in physical health (OR = 0.94) were less willing to accept it. Discussion: Health care professionals need to routinely assess nursing home residents’ feeding tube preferences. It is imperative to consider sociocultural perspectives in understanding Chinese older adults’ decision making for end-of-life care.

scholarly journals Short Forms of the Cross-Cultural (Chinese) Personality Assessment Inventory: Reliability, Validity, and Measurement Invariance Across Gender

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mingjie Zhou ◽  
Duan Huang ◽  
Fen Ren ◽  
Weiqiao Fan ◽  
Weiqi Mu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Measurement Invariance ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Personality Assessment Inventory ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Short Forms ◽  
Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory ◽  
The Cross

Filling out long questionnaires can be frustrating, unpleasant, and discouraging for respondents to continue. This is why shorter forms of long instruments are preferred, especially when they have comparable reliability and validity. In present study, two short forms of the Cross-cultural (Chinese) Personality Assessment Inventory (CPAI-2) were developed and validated. The items of the short forms were all selected from the 28 personality scales of the CPAI-2 based on the norm sample. Based on some priori criteria, we obtained the appropriate items and constructed the 56-item Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory (CPAI) and the 28-item CPAI. Then, we examined the factor structure of both short forms with Exploratory SEM (ESEM) and replicated the four-factor structure of the original CPAI-2, reflecting the four personality domains of Chinese people, namely, Social Potency, Dependability, Accommodation, and Interpersonal Relatedness. Further analyses with ESEM models demonstrate full measurement invariance across gender for both short forms. The results show that females score lower than males on Social Potency. In addition, these four factors of both short forms have adequate internal consistency, and the correlation patterns of the four factors, the big five personality traits, and several health-related variables are extremely similar across the two short forms, reflecting adequate and comparable criterion validity, convergent validity, and discriminant validity. Overall, the short versions of CPAI-2 are psychometrically acceptable and have practically implications for measuring Chinese personality and cross-cultural research.

scholarly journals A Study of the Relationship Between Tutor's Personality and Teaching Effectiveness: Does culture make a difference?

2002 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bobbie Chan
Keyword(s):  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Teaching Effectiveness ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Myers Briggs Type Indicator ◽  
Chinese Tradition ◽  
Personality Inventories ◽  
Type Indicator ◽  
Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory ◽  
Universal Domain

Good tutoring requires appropriate interpersonal and pedagogical skills. Tutor personality is a major factor affecting how tutors communicate and deals with students, and yet it is a largely unexplored context of distance education. Using the Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory (CPAI)* this paper examines how the personality of tutors’ affects their teaching effectiveness at a distance learning institution in Hong Kong. The results are compared to those reported by Chan (2001) in a similar study using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). The results indicate that certain scales on the Chinese Tradition factor of the CPAI are significantly related to tutors’ teaching performance, and that the MBTI could not subsume all the CPAI scales. Future research with the CPAI should explore whether this Chinese Tradition factor is unique to the Chinese culture or whether it comprises elements of a universal domain useful in understanding key interpersonal aspects of personality that have been absent from Western personality inventories.

scholarly journals Tobacco dependence affects determinants related to quitting intention and behaviour

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Haoxiang Lin ◽  
Meijun Chen ◽  
Qingping Yun ◽  
Lanchao Zhang ◽  
Chun Chang
Keyword(s):  
Nicotine Dependence ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cigarette Use ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Logistic Regression Models ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Almost All

AbstractThis study uses protection motivation theory (PMT) to examine the quitting intentions and behaviours of smokers who have varying levels of nicotine dependence. Our goals are to identify the psychological factors that influence smoking cessation and to provide valuable evidence to promote theory-guided interventions. This is a cross-sectional study that was conducted from July to August 2020. Participants were randomly selected on the streets of 26 provinces on mainland China. Data were collected via face-to-face interviews. Our analysis was conducted in three steps. First, we employed descriptive statistics to present the overall characteristics of our sample. Second, we analysed the association between PMT constructs and quitting intentions stratified by nicotine dependence. Third, we tested how quitting intentions were associated with quitting behaviours in each subgroup using logistic regression models. For intention, almost all the PMT constructs were significantly associated with quitting intention in the low-dependence group. For the moderate- and high-dependence groups, only perceived vulnerability (coefficient = 0.35, P = 0.04) was positively associated with quitting intention. For behaviour, we found a stronger association between quitting intention and behaviour in the low-dependence group (Coef. = 1.67, P = 0.00) than for the other groups. We found a significant association between e-cigarette use and quitting behaviour only in the low-dependence group (Coef. = 1.34, P = 0.00). Coefficients for the moderate- and high-dependence groups were not statistically significant. Smokers at various levels of nicotine dependence have different psychological factors that influence their intentions to stop smoking. Quitting intention was more significantly associated with quitting behaviour for the low nicotine-dependence group than for the other groups. More convincing research is necessary to determine how e-cigarette use affects quitting behaviour in the long term.

scholarly journals THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN PARENTAL ATTACHMENT AND THE PARENTING: A REVIEW AND PRELIMINARY META-ANALYSIS

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 339-362
Author(s):  
Yi Huang
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Parenting Styles ◽  
Parental Attachment ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Significant Negative Correlation ◽  
Positive Parenting ◽  
Insecure Attachment ◽  
Secure Attachment ◽  
Internal Working Model ◽  
Negative Parenting

According to the internal working model, attachment is rooted in one's previous interactive experience, which can affect further interpersonal relationships through reaction to others, including the parent-child relationships. However, no meta-analysis examining the link between parental attachments and parenting styles was done before. This meta-analysis study aimed to examine the associations between parents' patterns of attachment and parenting styles. Sixteen published articles and 2342 participants were included in the analysis. It was found that parental secure attachment correlated with positive parenting, but no significant negative correlation emerged between secure attachment and negative parenting. Regarding maternal insecure attachment, the results showed it correlated with positive parenting negatively and significantly. Also, there was a significant association between the insecure attachment and negative parenting. This research suggests that parental attachment pattern is linked to parenting styles.

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