<b>Childhood Trauma and Malevolent Creativity: The Chain Mediation Effect of Positive Parenting and Resilience</b>

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 &lt; 0.001) and significantly negatively correlated with positive parenting (r = -0.12, P &lt; 0.001) and resilience (r = -0.11, P &lt; 0.001). Positive parenting was significantly positively correlated with resilience (r = 0.50, P &lt; 0.001). Furthermore, childhood trauma significantly positively predicts malevolent creativity (B = 0.33, P &lt; 0.001), positive parenting style (B = 0.24, P &lt; 0.001), and resilience (B = 0.31, P &lt; 0.001). Positive parenting style significantly positively predicts resilience (B = 1.25, P &lt; 0.001) and significantly negatively predicts malevolent creativity (B = -0.28, P &lt; 0.001). resilience significantly negatively predicts malevolent creativity (B = -0.07, P &lt; 0.001). Even after accounting for positive parenting style and resilience in the regression model, childhood trauma still significantly positively predicts malevolent creativity (B = 0.44, P &lt; 0.001). The results revealed that positive parenting style and resilience play significant chain mediation roles between childhood trauma and malevolent creativity.