Chinese Adolescents in Hong Kong: Family Life, Psychological Well-Being and Risk Behavior

✍ Scribed by Daniel T.L. Shek, Rachel C. F. Sun, Cecilia M.S. Ma (eds.)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Singapur
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 251
Series: Quality of Life in Asia 5
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book documents the findings of a 3-year longitudinal study on the quality of family life, personal well-being and risk behavior in Chinese adolescents in Hong Kong. It presents the profiles of quality of family life (family functioning, parental behavioral control, parental psychological control and parent-child relational qualities); personal well-being (positive youth development and life satisfaction measures) and adolescent risk behavior (substance abuse, delinquency, self-harm and suicidal behavior and behavioral intentions to engage in risk behavior) in different adolescent populations across time. It also examines theoretical issues concerning the interrelationships between family quality of life, psychological well-being and risk behavior in adolescents. Practically speaking, the findings can help youth workers appreciate the importance of family quality of life and positive youth development in shaping the personal well-being and risk behavior in Chinese adolescents in Hong Kong.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Family Quality of Life, Personal Well-Being, and Risk Behavior in Early Adolescents in Hong Kong: Related Phenomena and Research Gaps....Pages 1-18
A Longitudinal Study of the Personal Well-Being and Family Quality of Life Among Chinese Adolescents in Hong Kong....Pages 19-34
Positive Youth Development in Junior Secondary School Students: Do Gender and Time Matter?....Pages 35-49
Parental Behavioral Control, Parental Psychological Control and Parent-Child Relational Qualities: Relationships to Chinese Adolescent Risk Behavior....Pages 51-69
Perceived Family Quality of Life, School Competence, and Academic Adjustment Among Early Adolescents in Hong Kong....Pages 71-91
Subjective Well-Being of Early Adolescents in Hong Kong....Pages 93-109
Development of Delinquent Behavior in Early Adolescents in Hong Kong....Pages 111-131
Substance Abuse in Junior Secondary School Students in Hong Kong....Pages 133-153
A Longitudinal Study on Deliberate Self-Harm and Suicidal Behaviors Among Chinese Adolescents....Pages 155-172
Compensated Dating and Juvenile Prostitution in Early Adolescents in Hong Kong....Pages 173-199
Intention to Gamble Among Junior Secondary School Students in Hong Kong: Changes and Predictors....Pages 201-219
Promotion of Positive Youth Development and Family Quality of Life in Chinese Adolescents....Pages 221-237
Back Matter....Pages 239-246

✦ Subjects

Quality of Life Research; Family

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