Abstract
This study has examined the validation of the Coping Strategy Indicator (CSI) with the 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) as a criterion for a sample of Chinese university students in Hong Kong, which consists of one hundred and ninety-four freshmen from the local universities. The relationship between freshmen’s coping efforts and adjustment to university life in the Hong Kong context has been investigated, using the CSI as the measure of coping and the GHQ-12 as the screening instrument for mental health. The results indicate high internal consistency of the three CSI coping scales, implying that the CSI can be a valid instrument to assess the coping efforts of university students of Hong Kong. Moreover, the samples of freshmen are found to prefer positive coping strategies, and female students are more willing to seek social support than males in coping with stress.
Highlights
For the past few years Hong Kong has witnessed an increasing number of students committing suicide: 71 cases between 2013 and 2016 (Cheung, 2017; Erickson, 2017; Wong, 2017)
This study has examined the validation of the Coping Strategy Indicator (CSI) with the 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) as a criterion for a sample of Chinese university students in Hong Kong, which consists of one hundred and ninety-four freshmen from the local universities
This study has explored validating the CSI with GHQ-12 as a criterion for a sample of Chinese university students in Hong Kong, and the results indicate high internal consistency of the three CSI scales
Summary
For the past few years Hong Kong has witnessed an increasing number of students committing suicide: 71 cases between 2013 and 2016 (Cheung, 2017; Erickson, 2017; Wong, 2017). Within the first six months of the academic year 2015-16, twenty-two students committed suicide in Hong Kong, and ten of them were university students (Cheung & Chiu, 2016). A spokeswoman for The Chinese University of Hong Kong reported that some incoming students had already shown symptoms of depression and anxiety even before the academic year started and that appropriate counselling services had been strengthened for those students
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