This study used the Social Exclusion Scale for Adolescents and the Malevolent Creative Behavior Scale to study the relationship between social exclusion and malevolent creativity by taking 150 hard-of-hearing students from a particular education school in Meizhou. The results showed a significant negative correlation between social rejection and malevolent creativity in hard-of-hearing students, the neglect dimension of social exclusion significantly affects the total score of malevolent creativity, and the neglect dimension has a negative predictive effect on malevolent creativity.

Xiaona Zong, Haotian Dong. A study on the relationship between social exclusion and malevolent creativity of hard-of-hearing students. Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (2023) Vol. 6, Issue 25: 106-111. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJHSS.2023.062517.

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