Julian C L Lai
Biographic Data
| ID | 118007 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julian C L Lai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julian C L |
| FAMILY NAME | Lai |
| SIGNATURE | LAI J C L |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4074-689X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Using the Brief Resilience Scale to Assess Chinese People's Ability to Bounce Back From Stress
This study examined the utility of an adapted version of the Brief Resilience Scale (BRS) to measure Chinese undergraduates' ability to bounce back from stress. The BRS together with measures tapping optimism, self-esteem, pessimism, and physical health were administered to 547 Hong Kong and 268 mainland Chinese undergraduates. The BRS was found to measure one single construct and exhibited convergent validity in both samples. Further analyses us…
Bicultural Self, Multiple Social Identities, and Dual Patriotisms Among Ethnic Chinese in Hong Kong
This research tests a model of bicultural self and its implications for social identity (Study 1) and compares the effects of bicultural self and social identity on patriotism (Study 2). Studies are grounded in Hong Kong's cultural-political context, where the century-long bicultural development of Chinese and Western selves is now realigning with Hong Kong's recent reunification with China and the resultant expectation to identify with and be pa…
Effects of Culture Priming on the Social Connectedness of the Bicultural Self: A Self-Reference Effect Approach
This research tests the theoretical prediction that the self-concept of bicultural Chinese would become more socially connected when Chinese primed than when Western primed. Measures of social connectedness are derived from the Self-Reference Effect, according to which information will be memorized better when it references the Self than when it references the non-Self. Under Western priming ( n = 91), memory of information referencing Self is be…
Perception of Environmental Risks among the Chinese People
Consistency in Choice of Social Referent
Similarity has been an important but ill-defined concept in social comparison theory. For social comparisons of competence, similarity should be defined within the same evaluative social context, for example, the same school for students or the same workplace for workers. 104 postsecondary school students, 96 full-time university students, and 81 part-time mature university students were recruited to participate in this study. They filled out a q…
Health Beliefs and Optimism as Predictors of Preventive Health Decisions in Hong Kong Chinese
The effects of components of the Health Belief Model and optimism on preventive intention were examined in 144 Hong Kong Chinese. Two variables related to the Health Belief Model, susceptibility and severity, were experimentally manipulated for an imaginary flu outbreak and a hypothetical vaccine. Participants indicated their intention to take the hypothetical vaccine after reading each of the 4 combinations of high versus low susceptibility and …
Optimism and Coping with Unemployment among Hong Kong Chinese Women
Unemployment and Psychological Health Among Hong Kong Chinese Women
Unemployment and Psychological Health among Hong Kong Chinese Women
The impact of unemployment on psychological health, indexed by the General Health Questionnaire, was studied in 86 unemployed and 79 employed Chinese women in Hong Kong. As with findings reported in the West, the present results showed that the unemployed participants were more disturbed than their steadily employed peers. In addition, the prevalence rate of disturbance (54%) observed in the present sample of unemployed women is comparatively hig…
The Moderating Effect of Optimism on the Relation between Hassles and Somatic Complaints
The relations between hassles, dispositional optimism, and prospective reports of physical symptoms were examined in a group of 90 Hong Kong undergraduates. Given that most hassle scales are confounded by physical and psychological symptomatology, a decontaminated scale specifically tailored to the experiences of college students was used. Multiple regression analyses indicated that hassle scores and the interaction of hassles and optimism unique…
Differential Predictive Power of the Positively versus the Negatively Worded Items of the Life Orientation Test
A self-report measure of dispositional optimism, the Life Orientation Test, was administered to a group of 202 Hong Kong undergraduates. Consistent with prior findings, factor analysis yielded a two-factor solution with all positively worded items loaded on the first factor and all the negatively worded items loaded on the second. Prediction of physical symptom reports from scores on the two subscales was then tested with 85 subjects randomly sel…
Bicultural Self, Multiple Social Identities, and Dual Patriotisms Among Ethnic Chinese in Hong Kong
This research tests a model of bicultural self and its implications for social identity (Study 1) and compares the effects of bicultural self and social identity on patriotism (Study 2). Studies are grounded in Hong Kong's cultural-political context, where the century-long bicultural development of Chinese and Western selves is now realigning with Hong Kong's recent reunification with China and the resultant expectation to identify with and be pa…
Effects of Culture Priming on the Social Connectedness of the Bicultural Self: A Self-Reference Effect Approach
This research tests the theoretical prediction that the self-concept of bicultural Chinese would become more socially connected when Chinese primed than when Western primed. Measures of social connectedness are derived from the Self-Reference Effect, according to which information will be memorized better when it references the Self than when it references the non-Self. Under Western priming ( n = 91), memory of information referencing Self is be…
Using the Brief Resilience Scale to Assess Chinese People's Ability to Bounce Back From Stress
This study examined the utility of an adapted version of the Brief Resilience Scale (BRS) to measure Chinese undergraduates' ability to bounce back from stress. The BRS together with measures tapping optimism, self-esteem, pessimism, and physical health were administered to 547 Hong Kong and 268 mainland Chinese undergraduates. The BRS was found to measure one single construct and exhibited convergent validity in both samples. Further analyses us…
Optimism and Coping with Unemployment among Hong Kong Chinese Women
Differential Predictive Power of the Positively versus the Negatively Worded Items of the Life Orientation Test
A self-report measure of dispositional optimism, the Life Orientation Test, was administered to a group of 202 Hong Kong undergraduates. Consistent with prior findings, factor analysis yielded a two-factor solution with all positively worded items loaded on the first factor and all the negatively worded items loaded on the second. Prediction of physical symptom reports from scores on the two subscales was then tested with 85 subjects randomly sel…
The Moderating Effect of Optimism on the Relation between Hassles and Somatic Complaints
The relations between hassles, dispositional optimism, and prospective reports of physical symptoms were examined in a group of 90 Hong Kong undergraduates. Given that most hassle scales are confounded by physical and psychological symptomatology, a decontaminated scale specifically tailored to the experiences of college students was used. Multiple regression analyses indicated that hassle scores and the interaction of hassles and optimism unique…
Unemployment and Psychological Health Among Hong Kong Chinese Women
Unemployment and Psychological Health among Hong Kong Chinese Women
The impact of unemployment on psychological health, indexed by the General Health Questionnaire, was studied in 86 unemployed and 79 employed Chinese women in Hong Kong. As with findings reported in the West, the present results showed that the unemployed participants were more disturbed than their steadily employed peers. In addition, the prevalence rate of disturbance (54%) observed in the present sample of unemployed women is comparatively hig…
Optimism and Coping with Unemployment among Hong Kong Chinese Women
Consistency in Choice of Social Referent
Similarity has been an important but ill-defined concept in social comparison theory. For social comparisons of competence, similarity should be defined within the same evaluative social context, for example, the same school for students or the same workplace for workers. 104 postsecondary school students, 96 full-time university students, and 81 part-time mature university students were recruited to participate in this study. They filled out a q…
Health Beliefs and Optimism as Predictors of Preventive Health Decisions in Hong Kong Chinese
The effects of components of the Health Belief Model and optimism on preventive intention were examined in 144 Hong Kong Chinese. Two variables related to the Health Belief Model, susceptibility and severity, were experimentally manipulated for an imaginary flu outbreak and a hypothetical vaccine. Participants indicated their intention to take the hypothetical vaccine after reading each of the 4 combinations of high versus low susceptibility and …
Perception of Environmental Risks among the Chinese People
Effects of Culture Priming on the Social Connectedness of the Bicultural Self: A Self-Reference Effect Approach
This research tests the theoretical prediction that the self-concept of bicultural Chinese would become more socially connected when Chinese primed than when Western primed. Measures of social connectedness are derived from the Self-Reference Effect, according to which information will be memorized better when it references the Self than when it references the non-Self. Under Western priming ( n = 91), memory of information referencing Self is be…
Bicultural Self, Multiple Social Identities, and Dual Patriotisms Among Ethnic Chinese in Hong Kong
This research tests a model of bicultural self and its implications for social identity (Study 1) and compares the effects of bicultural self and social identity on patriotism (Study 2). Studies are grounded in Hong Kong's cultural-political context, where the century-long bicultural development of Chinese and Western selves is now realigning with Hong Kong's recent reunification with China and the resultant expectation to identify with and be pa…
Using the Brief Resilience Scale to Assess Chinese People's Ability to Bounce Back From Stress
This study examined the utility of an adapted version of the Brief Resilience Scale (BRS) to measure Chinese undergraduates' ability to bounce back from stress. The BRS together with measures tapping optimism, self-esteem, pessimism, and physical health were administered to 547 Hong Kong and 268 mainland Chinese undergraduates. The BRS was found to measure one single construct and exhibited convergent validity in both samples. Further analyses us…
Psychology (11 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Optimism (5 works) · Optimism, Hope, and Well-being (5 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (3 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (3 works)