Mediating Role of Creative Mindsets in the Relation between Filial Piety and Psychological Adjustment

ABSTRACT

We examined the mediating role of creative mind-sets in the relationship between filial piety beliefs and children’s psychological adjustment in the context of Chinese culture. In the current study, we adopt structural equation modeling to address this gap. A total of 657 Taiwanese young adults (M age = 16.86 years) were recruited in a survey for the study. The analysis yielded the following results. First, reciprocal filial piety (RFP) belief was linked to a malleable creative mind-set, whereas authoritarian filial piety (AFP) belief was positively associated with a fixed creative mind-set. Second, endorsement of a malleable creative mind-set had nonsignificant associations with any dimension of psychological adjustment, while a fixed creative mind-set contributed negatively to life satisfaction and positively to psychological distress. Third, a fixed creative mind-set, but not a malleable mind-set, mediated the relationship between filial piety beliefs and psychological distress involving social dysfunction and anxiety/depression.

KEYWORDS:

• Filial piety
• fixed creative mind-set
• malleable creative mind-set
• psychological adjustment
• Chinese cultural context
• creativity in counseling

Data Availability Statement

Due to the nature of this research, participants of this study did not agree for their data to be shared publicly, so supporting data is not available.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

This work was funded by University of Macau, with the grant reference number MYRG2016-00047-FED.