Asian adolescent and young adult adoptees' psychological well-being: Examining the mediating role of marginality

Adolescent adoptees from an ethnic minority background different from that of their adoptive parents can face unique challenges to their psychosocial adjustment that may include, for some, a sense of marginality and low self-esteem. Using a web-based survey design with a sample of 100 internationally adopted Asian adolescent and young adults, the present study examined how feelings of marginality mediate the relationship between ethnic and racial socialization and psychological well-being among Asian adoptees. The results showed that (a) supports for racial socialization decreased adoptees' feeling of marginality and thereby, increased their positive sense of self; and (b) ethnic socialization was not related to feelings of marginality and self-esteem. This study illustrates the importance of providing post adoption services addressing racial socialization issues. Further, adoptive parents should teach their children how to deal with racial prejudice and discrimination, and prepare them by helping them to develop positive coping strategies.     

Child welfare agency climate influence on worker commitment

This research focuses on understanding the relationship of organizational climate to commitment for child welfare workers in private, non-governmental organizations. Commitment is measured as a latent construct of agency investment derived from Landsman's study (2001). Agency investment includes measures of workers' time, cost, and emotional difficulty for changing their line of work. Organizational climate is embedded in Parker et al. (2003) modification of James and colleagues' theory of primary domains of work environment perceptions. Parker's Psychological Climate survey measured organizational climate. Four hundred forty-one workers in three not-for-profit agencies under contract with the public child welfare system were sampled. Autonomy, Challenge and Innovation were significantly associated with agency investment. This indicates that worker perceptions of having job autonomy, the job being challenging, and the organization as innovative predict greater job commitment.     

社区工作者的心理素养与构建

构建和谐社会强调从建设和谐社区入手,和谐社区建设过程中社区工作者扮演了重要的角色,而社区工作者的心理素养则在较深层面上影响和决定社区工作者的工作情况,笔者在阐述社区工作者心理素养的内涵和开展心理素养建设的必要性的基础上,提出了建立心理素养评估体系、开展团队心理辅导和加大培训工作力度三个构建和提高社区工作者心理素养的途径。     

抗逆力视野下的高校贫困生心理问题

我国高校贫困生作为大学生中的弱势群体,其心理问题已成为社会各界共同关注的热点问题。当前抗逆力研究采用新范式定义和解读问题,把问题看作是抗逆力的一种形式,是生命功能的一种体现。基于此,我们提出把问题看做"抗逆力酶"来催化贫困生抗逆力养成的建构模式,并肯定其在解决贫困生心理问题中的积极价值定位,提出抗逆力的养成是解决贫困生心理问题的新途径。     

抗逆力视野下的高校贫困生心理问题

我国高校贫困生作为大学生中的弱势群体,其心理问题已成为社会各界共同关注的热点问题。当前抗逆力研究采用新范式定义和解读问题,把问题看作是抗逆力的一种形式,是生命功能的一种体现。基于此,我们提出把问题看做"抗逆力酶"来催化贫困生抗逆力养成的建构模式,并肯定其在解决贫困生心理问题中的积极价值定位,提出抗逆力的养成是解决贫困生心理问题的新途径。     

Self-efficacy and psychological well-being of nursing home residents in China: the mediating role of social engagement

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to explore the role of self-efficacy and social engagement in psychological well-being of Chinese nursing home residents. A total of 307 residents completed the measurement of social engagement, self-efficacy and psychological well-being. The results showed that satisfaction with physical environment, social support, social activity engagement and self-efficacy were all positively correlated with psychological well-being. At the same time, social engagement partially mediated the effect of self-efficacy on psychological well-being. The results of this study should indicate additional actions for managers of nursing homes and social workers to improve the psychological well-being of older adults.     

Late Adolescents’ Coping Styles in Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Conflicts using the Narrative Disclosure Task

The present study examined differences in coping styles of female late adolescents who were writing repeated narratives about either interpersonal or intrapersonal conflicts. Following the paradigm of Pennebaker’s (Hints on writing a running experiment. Unpublished manual, 1994) narrative disclosure task, 30 female adolescents wrote about the most upsetting event in their lives for 20 min on three consecutive days. These narratives were coded for the presence of interpersonal family conflict, peer conflict, and intrapersonal conflict (e.g., academic failure, medical problem), as well as 30 specific coping processes, including processes such as resignation, blaming others, and taking active steps. These 30 processes were later grouped into five broad coping styles: approach, cognitive, avoidant, internally-focused, and externally-focused coping. The results indicated that coping styles differed significantly depending on the type of conflict. External coping strategies (e.g., blaming others, acting out) were used more often in conflicts with parents, while conciliatory coping strategies (e.g., taking active steps to solve the problem), were used more often with peer conflict. Coping strategies tended to become more adaptive by the end of the third writing session (i.e., restructuring and acceptance increased, while withdrawal, distraction, and acting out decreased). The study is aimed to enhance our understanding of adaptation to psychosocial stressors of adolescence. Clinical implications of the results are discussed and are especially relevant to practitioners working with adolescent females and their families.

新时代背景下大学生创业心理现状及提升途径研究

目前,我国各高校普遍开设了创新创业教育课程,但是大学生创业的成果并不明显,获得创业成功的更是少数。在大学生创业过程中,创业心理起到了关键性作用。本文针对创业心理的主要内容和当代大学生存在的创业心理现状进行分析,探讨提升大学生创业心理素质的途径。     

Materialist/postmaterialist values and their association with psychological health and health locus of control: A population-based study

This study investigates the association between Ronald Inglehart's materialist/postmaterialist index, a psychological aspect of the material pathway to inequalities in health, and health locus of control and psychological health. The data used is from the 2008 public health survey in Skåne, a cross-sectional postal questionnaire study with 28,198 respondents (response rate 54%), conducted in southern Sweden during the fall of 2008. Psychological health (GHQ12), health locus of control (external vs. internal) and the four-item Inglehart's index were assessed. A Multiple Logistic Regression Model was used to control for age, sex, country of origin, socioeconomic status and interpersonal trust. External locus of control was observed among 32.7% of the respondents. Poor psychological health was found in 18.2% of the women and 13.8% of the men. Materialist values were positively associated with low socioeconomic status, while a reverse association between postmaterialist values and low socioeconomic status was observed. External health locus of control was strongly and positively associated with materialist values among both men and women. Psychological health was not associated with materialist/postmaterialist values. The materialist/postmaterialist index, a psychological aspect of the material pathway to inequalities in health, is associated with health locus of control but not with mental health.     

A narrative review of interventions addressing the parental–fetal relationship

Background

Expectant parents develop varying degrees of emotional affiliation with the unborn child. Interventions supporting this relationship may be beneficial given its link to maternal health behaviour during pregnancy, as well as the parental–infant bond after birth.