From BAS/BIS to Psychological Hardiness: Serial Mediation by Self-Growth and Creativity

This dataset contains item-level questionnaire data collected from 430 Chinese undergraduate music students. The dataset includes measures of the Behavioral Activation System (BAS), Behavioral Inhibition System (BIS), psychological hardiness, self-growth goal orientation, and creativity, as well as basic demographic variables. Composite variables were computed as mean scores following the procedures described in the accompanying codebook. BAS items 12 and 13, and BIS items 3, 4, and 5 were reverse-coded prior to score aggregation. The data were used to examine a serial mediation model (PROCESS Model 6) in which BAS/BIS predicted psychological hardiness via self-growth goal orientation and creativity. A detailed codebook and analysis notes are provided to support transparency and reproducibility.