Jacky C K Ng
Biographic Data
| ID | 124407 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacky C K Ng |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacky C K |
| FAMILY NAME | Ng |
| SIGNATURE | NG J C K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2723-4387 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Exploring the associations of generalized trust, climate change conspiracy beliefs and freecycling: Empirical evidence from 34 cultures
This study examined the relationships between generalized trust, climate change conspiracy beliefs and freecycling – a community‐based free‐item sharing pro‐environmental behaviour. It also explored the role of societal factors in relation to participation in freecycling, as well as how they are associated with these relationships. Using a panel method, we conducted an online survey with 16,773 participants, stratified by age, gender and region a…
How and when do peer deviant behaviours link to adolescent academic performance: Longitudinal moderated mediation analysis using a Chinese national sample
BACKGROUND: Previous research has associated peer deviant behaviours with lower academic performance in adolescents. However, the mediation and moderation mechanisms underlying this relationship, particularly the moderating role of educational expectations, require further exploration. AIMS: This study aims to examine the longitudinal effect of peer deviant behaviours on academic performance among Chinese adolescents, as well as the mediating rol…
Understanding Covid-19 attributions: The moderating role of global orientations on prosocial and pro-environmental responses across 35 cultures
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented an unprecedented global health crisis, raising important questions about how individuals attribute responsibility to the pandemic and how these attributions shape psychological responses. Drawing on attribution theory, stigma theory, and the globalization orientations framework, the present study examined two moderated mediation models to clarify the associations among attribution (personal attribution and envi…
The role of parent–child communication on Chinese rural left-behind children’s educational expectation: A moderated mediation analysis
Parents are the most intimate and proximal influences on a child’s development. Migration-induced parental absence in rural China might pose a considerable threat to the educational development of left-behind children because of insufficient parent–child communication. Despite growing scholarly attention, we know little of the effect of parental migration on either parent–child communication or the educational expectations of rural students of di…
Reducing the sense of separation: Investigating the temporal association of continuum beliefs and interconnected explanations with stigma and advocacy for individuals with anxiety disorders and schizo…
Background and aims Social stigma has been adversely affecting various aspects of life for people with mental illness across different cultural contexts, highlighting an urgent need to reduce this stigma. It has been theorized that a sense of separation is a key component of stigmatization, and addressing this component is considered a feasible way to reduce social stigma. This study aimed to investigate the temporal relationship between continuu…
Educational Development of Chinese Rural Left‐Behind Children: Promotive and Protective Factors at Multilevels
Recent research from a resilience perspective has underscored the significance of students' internal learning characteristics, alongside support and resources from various external systems, in promoting the positive educational development of rural left‐behind students despite parental absence. Utilizing a strength‐based approach, these studies have identified numerous promotive and protective factors from left‐behind children's multiple systems.…
A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of Multiple Family Narrative Therapy for Families of Children with Dyslexia in Hong Kong: Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Outcomes
Purpose: Dyslexia is a common learning disorder that affects reading and writing abilities and could have a significant impact on family functioning and child development. Despite the availability of educational interventions, many families of children with dyslexia continue to experience difficulties in handling negative emotions and parent–child dyadic interactions associated with the specific disabilities. The present study examines the effect…
A Note on Evaluating the Moderated Mediation Effect
In the past decade, moderated mediation analysis has been extensively and increasingly employed in social and behavioral sciences. With its widespread use, it is particularly important to ensure the moderated mediation analysis will not bring spurious results. Spurious effects have been studied in both mediation and moderation analysis, but this issue remains unexplored in moderated mediation analysis. To fill this gap, we examined the conditions…
When conduct achievement does (and does not) make you smile: It depends on your self-construal
202412 bcch
Who do we trust and how do we cope with Covid-19? A mixed-methods sequential exploratory approach to understanding supportive messages across 35 cultures
Based upon a mixed-methods follow-up exploratory model, we examined the link between trust and coping during the early outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic at the society level. Qualitative data were collected from the supportive messages written by 10,072 community adults across 35 societies. Trust and coping were used as the two pre-defined themes in the conceptual content analysis. Five subthemes emerged from the theme trust, depicting five disti…
The way I see the world, the way I envy others: A person-centered investigation of worldviews and the malicious and benign forms of envy among adolescents and adults
Previous research had extensively studied the consequences of dispositional malicious and benign envy, while relatively few studies examined its determinants. Although one’s worldviews have been proposed to shape the experience of malicious and benign envy, empirical studies directly investigating this notion are scarce. To address this gap, we adopted a person-centered approach to identify different individual profiles that underlie five general…
Does having multiple identities predict life satisfaction? Holistic thinking as a condition for achieving integrated self-concept
The role of fear of negative evaluation on the effects of self-control on affective states and life satisfaction: A moderated mediation analysis
Does Instagram make you speak ill of others or improve yourself? A daily diary study on the moderating role of malicious and benign envy
Global Consciousness Predicts Behavioral Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic: Empirical Evidence From 35 Cultures
COVID-19 has drastically changed human behaviors and posed a threat to globalism by spurring a resurgence of nationalism. Promoting prosocial behavior within and across borders is of paramount importance for global cooperation to combat pandemics. To examine both self-report and actual prosocial behavior, we conducted the first empirical test of global consciousness theory in a multinational study of 35 cultures ( N = 18,171 community adults stra…
Social axiom and group identity explain participation in a societal event in Hong Kong
The present research aims to identify cognitive and affective factors that explain participation in societal events from a social psychological perspective. This study examined the role of generalized beliefs about the world in the prediction of collective action, and adopted a diary method by collecting daily measures for two consecutive weeks during the 2014 Hong Kong protests. Social identity was significantly associated with group-related emo…
Dialecticism in romantic relationships: An examination in Chinese and American cultural contexts
The cultural theory of naïve dialecticism, denoting Chinese lay beliefs about expectation of change and tolerance of contradiction, was employed to examine Chinese and European Americans' representation and evaluation of their romantic partners and relationships across three studies. We found that Chinese were more likely than Euro‐Americans to spontaneously describe their partners with contradictory attributes (Study 1). While Chinese and Euro‐A…
From Social Networking Site Use to Subjective Well-Being: The Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Mediating Pathways of Prosocial Behavior among Vocational College Students in China
In view of the growing importance of social networking sites (SNS) to adolescents and the mixed and inconclusive empirical evidence on the relationships between SNS use and their well-being, the present study aimed to investigate the associations of social function use intensity (SFUI) and entertainment function use intensity (EFUI) with adolescent life satisfaction and self-esteem, and examine the mediating roles that general prosocial behavior …
Relationships between global orientations and attitudes toward integration policies: A sequential explanatory mixed methods approach
202211 bcww
Does Dispositional Envy Make You Flourish More (or Less) in Life? An Examination of Its Longitudinal Impact and Mediating Mechanisms Among Adolescents and Young Adults
Are the effects always positive? Rethinking the role of parental social capital in the university choice process
The extant literature on parental involvement in the university choice process sheds light on the positive impact of parents’ social capital on enrolment. Little research captures the complex dynamics of parental social capital that might within certain sociocultural and economic contexts compound the effects on university choice and access. This study contributes insight to address this gap, from the context of Hong Kong. It administered a quest…
Why goal pursuers prefer to seek support from close friends: The roles of concerns for accessibility
When selecting among potential supporters, goal pursuers prefer close over distant friends. Using the transactive goal dynamics perspective, we proposed that such preference is partially motivated by concerns for accessibility. Indeed, one correlational study (Study 1) showed that goal pursuers selected close friends partly because they were more accessible. Three additional experiments asked participants to seek support by calling either a close…
Perceiving Change in Responsiveness From the Relationship Partner’s Behaviors
This study examined whether, and how, romantic partners can accurately judge each other’s state level of responsiveness during a conflict discussion. Dating couples ( N = 84 pairs) engaged in a 10-min videotaped discussion about an unresolved conflict and then reviewed the recorded discussion. For each 30-s segment of interaction, participants reported their own responsiveness and judged their partner’s responsiveness. Trained coders also coded e…
Does Believing in Fate Facilitate Active or Avoidant Coping? The Effects of Fate Control on Coping Strategies and Mental Well-Being
The development of control-related constructs has involved different approaches over time, and yet internal and external locus of control are conceptualized as dichotomous factors influencing active versus avoidant coping strategies. While external control is associated with avoidance, a similar belief construct fate control, which denotes that life events are pre-determined and influenced by external forces but predictable and alterable, challen…
Is It Helpful to Believe That Efforts Will Lead to Positive Outcomes? Two Cross-Lagged Panel Investigations among Adolescents and Young Adults
Over the past few decades, the role of self-views in life satisfaction has been extensively investigated. Recently, growing attention has been directed to the question of whether an optimistic worldview, termed "reward for application", helps boost life satisfaction. Conceptually, the association between reward for application and life satisfaction can be paradoxical. Due to various methodological and theoretical shortfalls, previous investigatio…
Conceptualizing psychological processes in response to globalization: Components, antecedents, and consequences of global orientations
The influences of globalization have permeated various aspects of life in contemporary society, from technical innovations, economic development, and lifestyles, to communication patterns. The present research proposed a construct termed global orientation to denote individual differences in the psychological processes of acculturating to the globalizing world. It encompasses multicultural acquisition as a proactive response and ethnic protection…
Rewards of kindness? A meta-analysis of the link between prosociality and well-being
Do people’s world views matter? The why and how
Over the past decades, personality and social psychologists have extensively investigated the role of self-views in individual functioning. Research on world views, however, has been less well studied due to overly specific conceptualizations, and little research about how and why they impact life outcomes. To answer why and how world views matter, we conducted 7 studies to examine the functions, antecedents, and consequences of generalized belie…
Are the effects always positive? Rethinking the role of parental social capital in the university choice process
The extant literature on parental involvement in the university choice process sheds light on the positive impact of parents’ social capital on enrolment. Little research captures the complex dynamics of parental social capital that might within certain sociocultural and economic contexts compound the effects on university choice and access. This study contributes insight to address this gap, from the context of Hong Kong. It administered a quest…
Studying parental involvement and university access and choice: An ‘interacting multiple capitals’ model
Capital‐embedded parental involvement in education is essential in enhancing university enrolment and maximising the educational potentials for equality and excellence. Previous studies in this field have mainly utilised Perna's (, ) model, which defines parental involvement as social capital and identifies the additive influences of different types of capital (including social, economic and cultural capital) on university access and choice. Yet,…
Does Language Affect Personality Perception? A Functional Approach to Testing the Whorfian Hypothesis
Whether language shapes cognition has long been a controversial issue. The present research adopts a functional approach to examining the effects of language use on personality perception and dialectical thinking. We propose that language use activates corresponding cultural mindsets, which in turn influence social perception, thinking, and behavior. Four studies recruited C hinese‐ E nglish bilinguals ( N = 129 in Study 1, 229 in Study 2, 68 in …
Conceptualizing psychological processes in response to globalization: Components, antecedents, and consequences of global orientations
The influences of globalization have permeated various aspects of life in contemporary society, from technical innovations, economic development, and lifestyles, to communication patterns. The present research proposed a construct termed global orientation to denote individual differences in the psychological processes of acculturating to the globalizing world. It encompasses multicultural acquisition as a proactive response and ethnic protection…
Do people’s world views matter? The why and how
Over the past decades, personality and social psychologists have extensively investigated the role of self-views in individual functioning. Research on world views, however, has been less well studied due to overly specific conceptualizations, and little research about how and why they impact life outcomes. To answer why and how world views matter, we conducted 7 studies to examine the functions, antecedents, and consequences of generalized belie…
How long can cultural events elevate group identity salience? The mediating role of affective adaptation
Cultural events have been found to make one’s group identity temporarily more salient. How long such an elevated sense of identity can endure remains, however, an empirical question. Building upon the model of affective adaptation, we propose that the elevated sense of group identity may decrease quickly during a culturally important event, and this process is mediated by the decline of positive emotions during the event. Consistent with this pre…
Studying parental involvement and university access and choice: An ‘interacting multiple capitals’ model
Capital‐embedded parental involvement in education is essential in enhancing university enrolment and maximising the educational potentials for equality and excellence. Previous studies in this field have mainly utilised Perna's (, ) model, which defines parental involvement as social capital and identifies the additive influences of different types of capital (including social, economic and cultural capital) on university access and choice. Yet,…
Unpacking Structure-Oriented Cultural Differences Through a Mediated Moderation Model: A Tutorial With an Empirical Illustration
Explaining cultural differences in the magnitude of psychological constructs and associations between psychological constructs is pivotal in cross-cultural psychology. Although unpacking level-oriented cultural differences has been well documented in the literature, discussion on methods to unpack structure-oriented cultural differences is limited. To tackle this problem, we propose an application of mediated moderation analysis. By estimating an…
Why goal pursuers prefer to seek support from close friends: The roles of concerns for accessibility
When selecting among potential supporters, goal pursuers prefer close over distant friends. Using the transactive goal dynamics perspective, we proposed that such preference is partially motivated by concerns for accessibility. Indeed, one correlational study (Study 1) showed that goal pursuers selected close friends partly because they were more accessible. Three additional experiments asked participants to seek support by calling either a close…
Perceiving Change in Responsiveness From the Relationship Partner’s Behaviors
This study examined whether, and how, romantic partners can accurately judge each other’s state level of responsiveness during a conflict discussion. Dating couples ( N = 84 pairs) engaged in a 10-min videotaped discussion about an unresolved conflict and then reviewed the recorded discussion. For each 30-s segment of interaction, participants reported their own responsiveness and judged their partner’s responsiveness. Trained coders also coded e…
Does Believing in Fate Facilitate Active or Avoidant Coping? The Effects of Fate Control on Coping Strategies and Mental Well-Being
The development of control-related constructs has involved different approaches over time, and yet internal and external locus of control are conceptualized as dichotomous factors influencing active versus avoidant coping strategies. While external control is associated with avoidance, a similar belief construct fate control, which denotes that life events are pre-determined and influenced by external forces but predictable and alterable, challen…
Is It Helpful to Believe That Efforts Will Lead to Positive Outcomes? Two Cross-Lagged Panel Investigations among Adolescents and Young Adults
Over the past few decades, the role of self-views in life satisfaction has been extensively investigated. Recently, growing attention has been directed to the question of whether an optimistic worldview, termed "reward for application", helps boost life satisfaction. Conceptually, the association between reward for application and life satisfaction can be paradoxical. Due to various methodological and theoretical shortfalls, previous investigatio…
Rewards of kindness? A meta-analysis of the link between prosociality and well-being
Does Dispositional Envy Make You Flourish More (or Less) in Life? An Examination of Its Longitudinal Impact and Mediating Mechanisms Among Adolescents and Young Adults
Are the effects always positive? Rethinking the role of parental social capital in the university choice process
The extant literature on parental involvement in the university choice process sheds light on the positive impact of parents’ social capital on enrolment. Little research captures the complex dynamics of parental social capital that might within certain sociocultural and economic contexts compound the effects on university choice and access. This study contributes insight to address this gap, from the context of Hong Kong. It administered a quest…
Social axiom and group identity explain participation in a societal event in Hong Kong
The present research aims to identify cognitive and affective factors that explain participation in societal events from a social psychological perspective. This study examined the role of generalized beliefs about the world in the prediction of collective action, and adopted a diary method by collecting daily measures for two consecutive weeks during the 2014 Hong Kong protests. Social identity was significantly associated with group-related emo…
Dialecticism in romantic relationships: An examination in Chinese and American cultural contexts
The cultural theory of naïve dialecticism, denoting Chinese lay beliefs about expectation of change and tolerance of contradiction, was employed to examine Chinese and European Americans' representation and evaluation of their romantic partners and relationships across three studies. We found that Chinese were more likely than Euro‐Americans to spontaneously describe their partners with contradictory attributes (Study 1). While Chinese and Euro‐A…
From Social Networking Site Use to Subjective Well-Being: The Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Mediating Pathways of Prosocial Behavior among Vocational College Students in China
In view of the growing importance of social networking sites (SNS) to adolescents and the mixed and inconclusive empirical evidence on the relationships between SNS use and their well-being, the present study aimed to investigate the associations of social function use intensity (SFUI) and entertainment function use intensity (EFUI) with adolescent life satisfaction and self-esteem, and examine the mediating roles that general prosocial behavior …
Relationships between global orientations and attitudes toward integration policies: A sequential explanatory mixed methods approach
202211 bcww
Who do we trust and how do we cope with Covid-19? A mixed-methods sequential exploratory approach to understanding supportive messages across 35 cultures
Based upon a mixed-methods follow-up exploratory model, we examined the link between trust and coping during the early outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic at the society level. Qualitative data were collected from the supportive messages written by 10,072 community adults across 35 societies. Trust and coping were used as the two pre-defined themes in the conceptual content analysis. Five subthemes emerged from the theme trust, depicting five disti…
The way I see the world, the way I envy others: A person-centered investigation of worldviews and the malicious and benign forms of envy among adolescents and adults
Previous research had extensively studied the consequences of dispositional malicious and benign envy, while relatively few studies examined its determinants. Although one’s worldviews have been proposed to shape the experience of malicious and benign envy, empirical studies directly investigating this notion are scarce. To address this gap, we adopted a person-centered approach to identify different individual profiles that underlie five general…
Does having multiple identities predict life satisfaction? Holistic thinking as a condition for achieving integrated self-concept
The role of fear of negative evaluation on the effects of self-control on affective states and life satisfaction: A moderated mediation analysis
Does Instagram make you speak ill of others or improve yourself? A daily diary study on the moderating role of malicious and benign envy
Global Consciousness Predicts Behavioral Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic: Empirical Evidence From 35 Cultures
COVID-19 has drastically changed human behaviors and posed a threat to globalism by spurring a resurgence of nationalism. Promoting prosocial behavior within and across borders is of paramount importance for global cooperation to combat pandemics. To examine both self-report and actual prosocial behavior, we conducted the first empirical test of global consciousness theory in a multinational study of 35 cultures ( N = 18,171 community adults stra…
A Note on Evaluating the Moderated Mediation Effect
In the past decade, moderated mediation analysis has been extensively and increasingly employed in social and behavioral sciences. With its widespread use, it is particularly important to ensure the moderated mediation analysis will not bring spurious results. Spurious effects have been studied in both mediation and moderation analysis, but this issue remains unexplored in moderated mediation analysis. To fill this gap, we examined the conditions…
When conduct achievement does (and does not) make you smile: It depends on your self-construal
202412 bcch
Psychology (28 works) · Social Psychology (26 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (13 works) · Developmental psychology (12 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (11 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Mediation (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (7 works) · Sociology (7 works)