Thinking styles and quality of university life among deaf or hard of hearing and hearing students

Sanyin CHENG, Li Fang ZHANG

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Abstract

The authors explored how thinking styles relate to quality of university life among deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) and hearing university students in mainland China. The first of two studies affirmed the validity and reliability of a modified version of the Quality of University Life Measure (QULM; Sirgy, Grezskowiak, & Rahtz, 2007) among 833 university students (366 DHH, 467 hearing). The second investigated relationships between thinking styles and quality of university life; the Thinking Styles Inventory-Revised II (Sternberg, Wagner, & Zhang, 2007) and modified QULM were administered to 542 students (256 DHH, 286 hearing). Students scoring higher on Type I styles (i.e., more creativitygenerating, less structured, cognitively more complex) tended toward greater satisfaction with university life; those scoring higher on Type II (i.e., more norm- favoring, more structured, cognitively more simplistic) tended toward less satisfaction. Contributions, limitations, and implications of the research are discussed. Copyright © 2017 Gallaudet University Press. All rights reserved.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)8-23
JournalAmerican Annals of the Deaf
Volume162
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017

Citation

Cheng, S., & Zhang, L.-F. (2017). Thinking styles and quality of university life among deaf or hard of hearing and hearing students. American Annals of the Deaf, 162(1), 8-23.

Keywords

  • Thinking styles
  • Quality of university life
  • Deaf or hard of hearing

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