Childhood Trauma and Malevolent Creativity: The Chain Mediation Effect of Positive Parenting and Resilience

This study aims to examine the relationship between childhood trauma and malevolent creativity in college students, as well as the mediating roles of positive parenting and resilience. An online survey was conducted using the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire-28 item Short Form (CTQ-SF), the Malevolent Creativity Behavior Scale (MCBS), the Short-form Parenting Styles Questionnaire (EMBU), and the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC). Data from 860 participants were analyzed using SPSS 27.0 and the PROCESS 4.2 macro for mediation effect tests based on the Bootstrap method. The results indicate that malevolent creativity was significantly positively correlated with childhood trauma (r = 0.38, P