Measuring Chinese Psychological Well-Being With Western Developed Instruments

Zhang, Jie; Norvilitis, Jill M.

doi:10.1207/s15327752jpa7903_06

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“…However, some support for treating the general concept of life satisfaction or subjective well-being as measured by the SWLS as relatively culture free comes from a study conducted by Zhang and Norvilitis (2002) who found that the concept of psychological well-being could be validly assessed in Chinese culture with Westerndeveloped instruments.…”

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Validation of the Satisfaction With Life Scale in a Sample of Hong Kong University Students

Sachs

2003

An International Journal of Psychological Sciences

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Exploratory and confirmatory analyses were used to examine the Satisfaction With Life Scale in a sample of Hong Kong university students. The exploratory analyses showed that the Satisfaction With Life Scale had good internal consistency reliability and that it appeared to measure a unidimensional construct. Comparison of Hong Kong students' scores on the Satisfaction With Life Scale with the normative data for American students and mainland Chinese and Korean students showed that Hong Kong students were more similar, on average, to the American students than to the Asian students in their overall satisfaction with life. Further analysis of the scale's structure using confirmatory factor analysis found that a modified two-factor model defined by present and past life satisfaction items and which allowed the error variances for two items to correlate fit the data best. However, inspection of the fit indices for the modified two-factor model suggested that it over fit the data, while a modified one-factor model, with correlated errors, also showed acceptable fit. Since the modified one-factor model was more parsimonious and agreed with the theoretical development of the scale as a unidimensional measure of general overall life satisfaction, it was retained. It is suggested that because of the Satisfaction With Life Scale's good reliability and cross-cultural validity along with its brevity and broad-band nature in assessing overall satisfaction with life it could have wide applicability as an ancillary measure in a number of research areas.

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Validation of the Satisfaction With Life Scale in a Sample of Hong Kong University Students

Sachs

2003

An International Journal of Psychological Sciences

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“…Higher scores indicate higher depression after reversing the four items. The CES-D scale demonstrate good psychometric properties in China among college students (Zhang and Norvilitis, 2002). Orme et al (1986) claimed that the scale demonstrates good factorial validity.…”

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“…The scale has been used to assess social support among South Asians (Tonsing et al, 2012). In China, the scale is also reliable and valid for use (Zhang and Norvilitis, 2002).…”

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Psychological Strain and Suicidal Ideation among Chinese Young People

Zhang

Zhao

2017

International Journal of Asian Social Science

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Article History KeywordsPsychological strain Suicidal ideation Chinese young people Background: In China, suicide is one of the major causes of death among adolescents and young adults. Various factors affect suicidal ideation. Aim: The current study examined how psychological strains affected suicidal ideation. Method: A questionnaire survey study was conducted in a Chinese university, with a large sample of 979 undergraduate students. The multiple linear regression analysis was used to exam the possible risk factors for suicidal ideation. Results: Grade, religion, course attendance, appearance self-evaluation, depression, social support and psychological strains measured by differential values strain and relative deprivation strain were significantly associated with suicidal ideation. Conclusions: Chinese young people' psychological strains were predictors of suicidal ideation with the important demographic variables controlled for. Contribution/ Originality:This study is one of very few studies which have investigated the association between psychological strains and suicidal ideation among Chinese young people. It revives an understanding that psychological strains especially measured by differential values strain and relative deprivation strain were significantly associated with suicidal ideation.

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“…Although the CES-D has been used primarily to assess depression in the United States, it has also been utilized in China (e.g., Cheng & Chan, 2005), Italy (e.g., De Gennaro et al, 2004), the Netherlands (e.g., Sonnenberg, 2003;Spijker, 2004), Japan (e.g., Nakata et al, 2007;Tanaka, 2006;Wada, 2007), Canada (e.g., Cameron et al, 2006Gatz, 2005), Australia (e.g., Alati et al, 2007;Almeida & Pfaff, 2005), and England (e.g., Sainz & Rey, 2007). Recently, Zhang and Norvilitis (2002) pointed out that this Western-developed instrument has been increasingly applied to the previously understudied populations in China and the reliability of the full CES-D has been demonstrated in a wide variety of samples with estimates of internal consistency ranging from .8 to .9 and test-retest reliabilities ranging from .4 to .7 (Devins et al, 1988). These investigators assessed the quality of the CES-D cross-culturally, finding that it was also reliable and valid based on their Chinese and Americans samples.…”

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Understanding Cultural Influences on Depression by Analyzing a Measure of Its Constituent Symptoms

Lu¹,

Bond²,

Friedman³

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IJPS

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To examine the different understandings of depression between Chinese and Americans, we employed confirmatory factor analysis, multidimensional scaling, and hierarchical cluster analysis of the symptom measure provided by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression Scale (CES-D). The present study revealed a different center-periphery scatter pattern of the twenty items of the CES-D in the two cultural groups, such that Chinese made a clearer discrimination between the affective/interpersonal and somatic items, while Americans conflated such items. Moreover, Chinese tended to further separate somatic symptoms into two subdivisions: subjective symptoms and objective symptoms. These results demonstrate that the conceptual organization of the symptoms characterizing depression is culture-related, suggesting culturally appropriate modifications in its clinical practice.

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Measuring Chinese Psychological Well-Being With Western Developed Instruments

Cited by 202 publications

References 52 publications

Validation of the Satisfaction With Life Scale in a Sample of Hong Kong University Students

Validation of the Satisfaction With Life Scale in a Sample of Hong Kong University Students

Psychological Strain and Suicidal Ideation among Chinese Young People

Understanding Cultural Influences on Depression by Analyzing a Measure of Its Constituent Symptoms

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