A meaning-making model of post-migration growth for mainland Chinese university students in Hong Kong

Jia Yan Pan; Shengquan Ye; Chen Chen; Crystal Park

doi:10.1016/j.ijintrel.2018.12.002

A meaning-making model of post-migration growth for mainland Chinese university students in Hong Kong

Jia Yan Pan, Shengquan Ye, Chen Chen^*, Crystal Park

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Studies of stress-related growth have demonstrated the central role of meaning-making processes in the occurrence of growth following stressful life experiences, but few have examined its role in the context of acculturation. This study developed and tested a meaning-making model of post-migration growth using bootstrap-based mediation analysis with a sample of 489 mainland Chinese university students in Hong Kong. The data were collected through an online cross-sectional survey. The results showed that acculturative stressor was a significant risk factor and that sense-making coping and core belief re-examination acted as significant protective factors for post-migration growth. Sense-making coping and core belief re-examination, in sequence, partially mediated the relationship between acculturative stressor and post-migration growth. This model demonstrates the importance of the cognitive processing of meaning-making in Chinese students’ post-migration growth.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-10
Number of pages	10
Journal	International Journal of Intercultural Relations
Volume	69
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2018.12.002
Publication status	Published - Mar 2019

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