Dimensionality of the widely used Rosenberg’s Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) was investigated in a sample of 153 seventh-grade Asian
students from Singapore. Confirmatory factor analyses performed on the scores of the RSES revealed two factors (positive and
negative self-esteem) as hypothesized. Both factors were empirically related to different external variables. Results from
multiple regression analyses indicated that positive self-esteem significantly predicted students’ mastery goal orientation
and academic self-efficacy scores while negative self-esteem significantly predicted students’ disruptive behavior. These
findings provide some preliminary support that the two factors could possibly be measuring substantively distinct dimensions,
thus calling into question the unidimensionalty of the RSES in an Asian school-based sample.
This study was supported by a grant from Center for Research in Pedagogy and Practice, National Institute of Education (CRP
26/04 RA) to Rebecca P. Ang. 相似文献
This study explores two issues concerning the relationships between personality, meta-mood experience, life satisfaction,
and anxiety. First, it explored the incremental value of Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and
Openness to Experience in predicting the three components of meta-mood experience (that is, attention to feelings, emotional
clarity, clarity of feelings and mood repair), after controlling for demographic variables across Australia and Singapore.
Second, it explored the incremental value of the three meta-mood experience components in predicting life satisfaction and
anxiety, after controlling for demographic variables and personality variables across the two countries. One hundred and eighty
nine tertiary students from Australia and 243 tertiary students from Singapore participated in this study. First, hierarchical
regression analyses for both samples suggested that Agreeableness and Neuroticism are the two most important personality predictors
of meta-mood experience, emotional attention, and emotional repair. Second, hierarchical regression analyses for both samples
suggested that emotional repair was a significant predictor for life satisfaction and anxiety, even after controlling for
demographic variables and personality variables. These results have implications for therapeutic interventions with life satisfaction
versus anxiety.
Funding for this research is facilitated partially by a research grant from the National Institute of Education. 相似文献
Adolescent suicide is considered a worldwide problem and an increasing source of concern in Singapore. This study explores
the relationships among four factors of maladjustment (that is, emotional distress, negative self, antisocial behavior, and
anger control problems) and suicidal ideation in two hundred and seventy-one adolescents from Singapore. Findings from the
study indicated that emotional distress, negative self-concept, and antisocial behavior significantly predicted suicidal ideation
for the whole sample. Beta weight is largest for emotional distress, followed by negative self, and then antisocial behavior.
For females, only emotional distress significantly predicted suicidal ideation. Implications of these findings with regard
to working with adolescents with suicidal ideations are discussed.
Funding for this research is facilitated by grant RP 1/01 APH. 相似文献
While the beneficial effects of authoritative parenting style have consistently been demonstrated for Caucasian samples, these
effects have not always been found for Asians. It appears that adolescents who perceived their parents’ style of parenting
as authoritarian are not one homogeneous group. Cluster analyses performed for adolescents’ perceived mothers’ and fathers’
authoritarian parenting style using adolescents’ self-report scores on personal adjustment and social variables as the clustering
variables found similar two-cluster solutions (maladjusted and well-adjusted). External validation evidence revealed that
adolescents in the maladjusted cluster had poorer attitudes towards school and teachers compared to adolescents in the well-adjusted
cluster for both samples. These findings suggest that authoritarian parenting style could possibly have a different cultural
meaning for Asians.
*The authors would like to thank staff from Tampines Family Service Center for their assistance with data collection. The schools,
adolescents and principals who participated in this project are also gratefully acknowledged and thanked. This research is
supported by the Voluntary Welfare Organization Capability Fund grant from the National Council of Social Service, Singapore. 相似文献
Atypical items of their semantic category yield more generalisation than their typical members when relearning in connectionist networks (Plaut, D. C. (1996). Relearning after damage in connectionist networks: toward a theory of rehabilitation. Brain and Language, 52(1), 25–82) and in empirical studies (Kiran, S., & Thompson, C. K. (2003). The role of semantic complexity in treatment of naming deficits: Training semantic categories in fluent aphasia by controlling exemplar typicality. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 46(4), 773–787). It seems therefore that atypical words provide more information about the overall structure of the semantic category due to their specific and shared features. In this view, atypical primes could strongly facilitate the processing of targets compared to typical primes, because typical primes contain little information about the variation between members within a category. In contrast, three semantic priming experiments in visual word recognition showed an advantage with the typical context, but not with the atypical one. These findings were observed in a variety of tasks, including lexical decision, categorisation and semantic judgment. Our results do not support the findings about generalisation in relearning and suggest that typicality effects in semantic priming mostly come from the activation of representative features of categories. 相似文献
As Japan marks the 75th anniversary of World War II in 2020, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe did not offer a fresh apology and maintained that future generations should not have to keep apologizing for past mistakes. This paper uses the unresolved war issue of the military comfort women system as a context to discuss what it means for political apologies to be more than mere political gestures founded on political interests and discusses what it takes to facilitate forgiveness. It will examine the features of a repentant wrongdoer who deserves forgiveness based on how one relates to one’s past wrongdoing in order to distinguish political apologies that are genuine from those that are mere gestures aimed at hasty reconciliation. This will be discussed through the works of Jacques Derrida and Vladimir Jankélévitch. Next, through Jankélévitch’s and Paul Ricoeur’s ideas of forgiveness, it will be discussed how matters of justice and forgiveness should be understood as well as how the history of past wrongs and injustice is necessary for a genuine apology and makes forgiveness possible. It is also a moral responsibility for both perpetrators and victims to remember history in order to achieve personal forgiveness as well as begin social and political reconciliation.