A meaning-making model of post-migration growth for mainland Chinese university students in Hong Kong |
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| Institution: | 1. Division of General Surgery and Organ Transplantation, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Roma, Italy;2. Institute of Biochemistry, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Roma, Italy |
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| Abstract: | 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. |
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| Keywords: | Meaning-making Post-migration growth Acculturation Chinese International students |
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