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study adopted the methods of the evaluation of personality adjectives, and then explored and
contrasted the personality features. Conclusions showed that these characters had similarities in
human's seeking for truth, kindness and beauty, and differences in ethos and axiology, which were
characteristic from different nations. After analyzing the representations of these commonness and
peculiarity and examining the reasons for these phenomena.
3063.52 Latinos and disclosure of HIV status, Paul Poppen, Fernanda Bianchi, Carol Reisen,
MariaCecilia Zea, John Echeverry, George Washington University, USA
Cultural factors influence disclosure of personal information. In the United States, Latinos are less
likely than non-Latinos to disclose HIV-positive status to others. However, these studies fail to
take into account differences among Latinos due to linguistic, historical, immigration, and cultural
experiences. This study examined disclosure of seropositive status among 344 Latino men who
have sex with men and came from four regions in Latin America (Brazil, Central America/Mexico,
South America, and Caribbean). Latinos from the Caribbean disclosed more to specific targets and
Brazilians disclosed less, demonstrating the importance of differences among cultural groups.
3063.53 Effect of parenting ideas’ type on preschool children’s personality, Ping Zou 1, 2 , Ying
Lizhu 2 , 1 Dalian University, China; 2 Liaoning Normal University, China
This presentation focused on how parenting ideas’ type influenced preschool children’s personality.
By means of self-reported Parenting Inventory and teachers’ evaluating questionnaires to children,
data were collected on 400 of 3-to-6-old children and their parents from 6 kindergartens in Dalian
of China. Results showed that by Analysis of cluster, the parenting ideas could be divided into
three styles, Positive style, Submissive style and Expectant style. They have different effects on
development of children’s personality. Positive style is valuable to children's personality.
Expectant style does not benefit to children's personality. Submissive style could have good or bad
effect on children's personality.
3063.54 Survey of the public view of self-strengthening, Jianhong Zheng, China
Self-strengthening was the constituent part of the Chinese self. The study explored the public view
about self-strengthening by investigated 585 adults (with different sex, age, occupation and
education). The results showed: the public view of self-strengthening mainly involved personality
field. Public regarded self-confidence, unfear difficulty, actualize self-worth, diligence and
persistence as the most important characteristics to self-strengthener. Through factor analysis 6
factors were extracted, i.e. willpower, social adaptability, social attitude, self-attitude, capability
and self-actualization. Significant global effect of education was found, significant effects of sex,
age, education in some characteristics of self-strengthener were also found.
3063.55 Life satisfaction, optimism and problem-solving style of Filipino domestic workers in
Hong Kong, Wai Lap Wong, King Leung Kong, the University of Hong Kong, China
The present study investigated how positive social personalities help to protect Filipino Domestic
Workers (FDWs) in Hong Kong from psychological problems. Life satisfaction, dispositional
optimism, and problem-solving style of 100 FDWs were examined with revised Quality of Life
Inventory, Life Orientation Test, and Problem-solving Inventory respectively. 20 FDWs were
interviewed and qualitative analysis was done by the grounded theory method. Life satisfaction
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