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Dyadic Effects of Fluid Mindset on Psychological Growth in Immigrant Mothers and Their Children: Indirect Effect of Resilience

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Abstract

Immigration research has recently investigated positive adaptation outcomes such as psychological growth. This study tested actor and partner effects between fluid mindset and psychological growth, mediated by resilience, in 200 migrant mother–child dyads from Mainland China to Hong Kong. Mothers’ fluid mindset had significant actor and partner effects on their own and their children’s psychological growth, whereas children’s fluid mindset showed an actor effect. For mothers and children, fluid mindset had significant actor indirect effects on psychological growth via resilience. Mothers’ fluid mindset had a significant partner indirect effect on children’s psychological growth via children’s resilience. The findings have implications for enhancing immigrants’ psychological growth by strengthening fluid mindset and considering mothers and children as the intervention unit in resilience programs.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1507-1522
Number of pages16
JournalFamily Process
Volume60
Issue number4
Online published5 Dec 2020
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2021

Research Keywords

  • Actor–partner interdependence model
  • Fluid mindset
  • Immigration
  • Mother–child dyads
  • Psychological growth
  • Resilience

RGC Funding Information

  • RGC-funded

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