Publications by authors named "Boby Ho-Hong Ching"

This scoping review explored the recent literature on the relationship between helicopter parenting and psychological adjustment among emerging adults in a university setting. A literature search was conducted on PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and PsycINFO to identify all original peer-reviewed studies published between 2020 and 2024 in English that examined the association between helicopter parenting and indices of psychological distress among college students. Twenty-three studies were included in this review.

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This study investigates the effects of the sport education model on physical literacy and its subsequent impact on daily physical activity levels among university students. Through mediation analysis, this study seeks to uncover the role of situational motivation in these effects. The participants in this study consist of 188 university students (male n = 132, female n = 70; mean age: 18.

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Background: Recent research showed that cross-notation magnitude knowledge of fractions and decimals was related to better performance in fraction arithmetic, but it remains unclear whether it made an independent contribution to fraction arithmetic longitudinally when other cognitive variables are considered.

Aims: To examine the extent to which children's earlier knowledge of cross-notation magnitude predicted subsequent performance in fraction addition and subtraction as well as fraction multiplication and division longitudinally.

Sample: Three hundred and fifty-four Chinese children (M = 112.

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Evidence for the prospective associations among parental failure mindset, helicopter parenting, and children's intelligence mindset is lacking. This three-wave longitudinal study (12 months apart between waves) addressed this research gap by testing whether perceived maternal helicopter parenting mediated the link between perceived maternal failure mindset and intelligence mindset. Participants included 525 Chinese adolescents (47.

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  • Social perceptions of speakers are influenced by their vocal characteristics and the semantic content of their speech, with specific focus on vocal pitch and types of semantic cues.
  • Antisocial cues consistently led to negative evaluations of speakers, while prosocial cues didn't significantly enhance positive perceptions compared to neutral cues.
  • Vocal pitch affects warmth and competence perceptions differently, with high pitch associated with warmth but less competence, and low pitch linked to competence but reduced warmth, highlighting the complexities of how voice influences stereotypes in social contexts.
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  • The study explored how beliefs about transgender identities are influenced by biological explanations and the effects of right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) among Chinese university students.
  • Participants read one of three articles: one suggesting transgender identity is biologically determined, one describing an interplay of biology and environment, and a control that didn’t discuss origins.
  • Results showed that low-RWA individuals had more positive beliefs about transgender identity when exposed to biological explanations, while high-RWA individuals had mixed responses, indicating that the impact of biological attributions on attitudes is shaped by personal beliefs on authority.
  • The findings suggest that presenting biological explanations does not always lead to more supportive attitudes, as it may reinforce essentialist views based on the reader's RWA level.
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This experimental study examined the effects of biological explanations on individuals' stigma against children with ADHD. We randomly assigned 174 undergraduate students to read one of the three fictitious articles: the first article focused on the determining role of biology in affecting children's ADHD symptoms (biological determinist), the second article highlighted the interplay between biological and environmental factors (interactionist), and the third article was unrelated to ADHD (control). Analyses of variance showed that participants who read the biological determinist message, relative to the control group, were (a) less likely to blame the children for their problems, but (b) more likely to endorse fixed beliefs about the nature of ADHD (entity beliefs).

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This 3-year longitudinal study examined the extent to which body weight contingent self-worth (CSW) predicted depressive symptoms in 439 adolescent girls and the roles of unstable self-esteem and interpersonal sexual objectification in this association. Half-longitudinal mediation showed that the indirect effect of body weight CSW on depression via instability of self-esteem was significant. Prior levels of body weight CSW predicted increases in unstable self-esteem, which predicted increments in depressive symptoms over time.

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Based on objectification theory and the consumer culture impact model, this study examined psychological predictors of cosmetic surgery consideration in 314 Chinese adolescent girls. Path analyses revealed several findings. First, both interpersonal sexual objectification and materialism contributed to internalized appearance ideals, which in turn related to body surveillance, body shame, and facial appearance concerns.

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Introduction: This longitudinal study investigated whether and how parental conflicts contributed to adolescents' endorsement of materialistic values.

Method: Two hundred and fourteen Chinese adolescents in Hong Kong (102 boys; mean age = 16.52 years) completed a set of questionnaires including materialism, emotional insecurity, parental conflict behaviour, and perceptions of parents (warmth, autonomy, and involvement).

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The aim of this study was to explore the relative contributions of phonological, semantic radical, and morphological awareness to Chinese word recognition in deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children. Measures of word recognition, general intelligence, phonological, semantic radical, and morphological awareness were administered to 32 DHH and 35 hearing children in Hong Kong. Hierarchical regression analyses showed that tone, semantic radical, and morphological awareness made independent contributions to word recognition in DHH children after the effects of age and intelligence were statistically controlled for.

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