APS

30th APS Annual Convention · 2018

Cultural Differences in Personal Growth Initiative As a Predictor of Life Satisfaction: Evidence for Using Resources Among Easterners and Being Planful Among Westerners

San Francisco, CA · May 2018

Poster · Clinical Science

  • Mingqi Li
    Skidmore College
  • Zihao Zhou
    University of Michigan
  • Tianbi Duan
    University of Pennsylvania
  • Yifan Dai
    Wake Forest University
  • Zhihang Yang
    University of Michigan
  • Xiaping Zheng
    Beijing Jiaotong University
  • Kaidi Wu
    University of Michigan
  • Olivia Chang
    Research Action Academy, Ann Arbor
  • Hongfei Yang
    Zhejiang University
  • Edward Chang
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Abstract

This study examined for cultural variations in personal growth initiative as a predictor of life satisfaction between Chinese and American college students. Results indicated that using resources was a unique predictor for Chinese, whereas planfulness was a unique predictor for Americans.

Cultural

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