Comparison of Self-Strength, Seeking Help and Happiness between Pakistani and Chinese Adolescents: A Positive Psychology Inquiry
作者机构:Department of EducationGuangzhou UniversityGuangzhou510006China Department of EducationThe University of LahoreLahore54950Pakistan
出 版 物:《International Journal of Mental Health Promotion》 (国际心理健康促进杂志(英文))
年 卷 期:2023年第25卷第3期
页 面:389-402页
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学科分类:1002[医学-临床医学] 100214[医学-肿瘤学] 10[医学]
基 金:funded by“13th Five-Year Plan”of National Education Science in China(No.BBA200033)
主 题:Comparative study happiness seeking help positive psychology self-strength
摘 要:Adolescents’emotions and preferences are influenced by their childhood *** today’s world,there is a pervasive eagerness for *** has been linked to feelings of self-strength,seeking help,and psy-chological *** current quantitative research was designed with a positive psychological perspective to compare Pakistani and Chines adolescents’self-strength,seeking help,and *** research design of the study was *** study population consisted of 400 Pakistani and 409 Chinese adolescents studying in the elementary grades of both *** sample was selected by using a simple random sampling *** consisted of 413 boys(51%)and 396 girls(49%),319(39)of them were from the age group of 13–14 years,386(48%)of them were from the age group of 15–16 years,and 104(12.9%)were from the age group of 17–18 *** different scales were developed to collect study *** sample t-test and simple linear regression were used to test study *** analysis revealed that Pakistani adolescents have signifi-cantly higher self-strength,seeking help and happiness than their *** was also found that adolescents’self-strength and seeking help significant affect their *** on thefindings,it was suggested to inves-tigate the factors contributing to the improved self-strength,seeking help,and happiness of Pakistani *** was also recommended to investigate the mediating effect of adolescents’self-strength on the relationship between their happiness and seeking help.