Huen, Mei Yiu Jenny. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 86-90). / Abstracts in English and Chinese; appendix also in Chinese. / Chapter Chapter 1: --- Introduction --- p.9 / Philosophical Origin of Human Finitude in the Literature of Philosophy / The Concept of Human Finitude in Various Fields of Psychology / The Construct of Beliefs in Human Finitude / Beliefs in Human Finitude as a Lay Theory Approach / Using Lay Beliefs of Human Finitude to Predict Behavioral Tendencies / Relationship between Beliefs in Human Finitude and Other Scales / Aims and Overview of the Studies / Chapter Chapter 2: --- Methodology / Study 1 - Development of the Scale --- p.26 / Participants / Procedures / Content Analysis / Pilot Test 1 / Pilot Test 2 / Study 2a - Qualitative Validation of the BHF --- p.40 / Participants and Procedures / Results and Discussion / Study 2b - Quantitative Validation of the BHF --- p.43 / Participants / Procedures / Results and Discussion / Study 3 - Nomological Network of the BHF --- p.50 / Participants and Procedures / Measures / Results and Discussion / Chapter Chapter 3: --- Discussion --- p.77 / General Discussion / Theoretical Significance / Limitations / Future Directions / Human Existence with Human Limitations: Some Concluding Remarks / References --- p.86 / Appendices / Appendix 1: The Extract Presented in Study 1 --- p.91 / Appendix 2a: Raw Set of 205 items in Chinese --- p.92 / Appendix 2b: Raw Set of 205 items in English (translated) --- p.98 / Appendix 3: Percentage of raters who rated each of the 205 items on the 3 essential levels --- p.106 / Appendix 4: Percentage of raters who categorized each of the 205 items into the 3 hypothesized categories or an otherwise specified category --- p.113 / Appendix 5a: Reduced Set of 184 items in Chinese --- p.120 / Appendix 5b: Reduced Set of 184 items in English --- p.126 / Appendix 6: Level of agreement to the 184 items in the reduced set --- p.133 / Appendix 7: Percentage of respondents who categorized each of the 184 items into the 7 hypothesized categories or an otherwise specified category --- p.143 / Appendix 8a: The final version of the BHF scale in four domains (Chinese version) --- p.153 / Appendix 8b: The final version of the BHF scale in four domains (English version) --- p.155 / Appendix 9: Content validity ratio (CVR) of each of the 60 items in the scale --- p.157 / Appendix 10: Percentage of raters who categorized each of the items of the BHF into the 5 hypothesized domains or an otherwise specified domain --- p.159 / Appendix 11: Factor analysis of the BHF --- p.163 / Appendix 12: The original items of essentialism (subscale of biological basis) and the rephrased items --- p.165
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_326345 |
Date | January 2008 |
Contributors | Huen, Mei Yiu Jenny., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Psychology. |
Source Sets | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Language | English, Chinese, Chinese |
Detected Language | English |
Type | Text, bibliography |
Format | print, 165 p. ; 30 cm. |
Rights | Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
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