Affect Balance Mediates the Relationship Between Gratitude and Mental Health: A Study With Chinese Middle School Students in Special With Hearing Loss

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Abstract

For students without disabilities, evidence exists of significant links between gratitude and mental health, and between affect balance and mental health, yet few investigations have tested gratitude, affect balance and mental health status in one study to reveal their complicated relationships, especially in students with disabilities. The present study investigated the mediation role of affect balance, self-esteem between gratitude and mental health among middle school students with disabilities in China. 102 Chinese middle school students with hearing loss completed a self-report questionnaire.Results showed in Chinese middle school students with hearing loss, in bridging the link between their gratitude and mental health status, affect balance played an inhibitory role in the interaction between gratitude and mental health problems. Practical implications are discussed.

Authors

• hou ting ting, University of Ji'nan

• Fuyi Yang