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Year: 2022 - 2023 2 term

Programme: Ph.D. in Psychology

Supervisor: Winnie Wing-Sze MAK

Student name: Chun Yat Alan TONG

Thesis title:

Understanding Resistance against Positivity

Keywords: Positive psychology, Resistance, Persuasion, Mental health promotion, Rhetorics

Participants: Study 1: 344 adults; Study 2: 184 adults; Study3: 28 adults

Measures: The Chinese-Life Orientation Test-Revised, Nonattachment Scale-Short Form, Self-compassion Scale-Short Form, The Dialectical Thinking in Social Perception Scale, The Mental Health Continuum-Short Form, The 2-item Patient Health Questionnaire, The 2-item Generalized Anxiety Disorder, The Positivity Scale

Measures abr: CLOT-R, NAS-SF, SCS-SF, DTSPS, MHC-SF, PHQ-2, GAD-2, P-Scale

Abstract: abstract/2022-2023PhD/TONGChunYatAlan_abstract.pdf

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