Thinking styles and emotions.
This study aimed to explore the relationship between thinking styles and emotions among university students in Hong Kong. Participants were 99 2nd-year students (23 men and 76 women) who responded to the Thinking Styles Inventory-Revised (TSI-R), based on R. J. Sternberg's (1988) theory of mental self-government, and to the Iowa Managing Emotions Inventory (IMEI), based on A. Chickering's (1969) theory of psychosocial development. Results indicated not only that thinking styles were associated with emotions but also that thinking styles had predictive power for emotions beyond age. The author discusses implications of these findings for faculty members and student-development educators.
Zhang
Li-Fang
LF
Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong. lfzhang@hku.hk
D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D044466:Asian People / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004644:Emotions; D005178:Faculty; D005260:Female; D006723:Hong Kong / Q000208:ethnology; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D010551:Personality / Q000145:classification*; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology; D013663:Teaching; D013850:Thinking