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Development of Infant Mental Health in Hong Kong SAR
Under the influences of both Chinese and Western cultures, parenting practices in Hong Kong have been undergoing generational shifts. This chapter...
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School Counselling in Hong Kong: a Profession in Need of an Identity
A strong professional identity is associated with the provision of more effective counselling services. In Hong Kong, however, the role of school...
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Validation of Positive Youth Development Scale and Implications for Adolescent in Hong Kong Community
BackgroundThe five components (5Cs) positive youth development (PYD) model has been demonstrated to be applicable in many Western societies. The...
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Assessing executive functions in preschoolers in Germany and Hong Kong: testing for measurement invariance
While an emerging body of research has documented cross-cultural differences in executive functions (EF) development in the early years, few studies...
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Timing of Sexuality Education: Hong Kong Preteens’ Perception of Sexual Health
Although young people want to know more about sexuality, they do not feel they have received what they need to learn. In Chinese societies, scant...
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Positive parenting, attachment, epistemic curiosity, and competence motivation of preschool children in Hong Kong: A serial mediation model
Parenting plays a vital role in children’s development. Children’s competence motivation is a unique and essential element of children’s approaches...
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Chapter 4: Hong Kong
Hong Kong is an intersectional place by nature, culture, and history, a fact reflected in this chapter’s snapshots of the people and places...
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Implementation of Positive Education Projects in Hong Kong
Applying the PERMA model, several positive education projects were launched in pre-primary, primary, high schools, and universities in Hong Kong. The...
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Curriculum-Based Measurement in Languages Other than English: a Sco** Review and Call for Research
Approximately five million students in US public schools have a home language other than English and are actively learning English (National Center...
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From Means to Goal: A History of Mental Health in Hong Kong from 1850 to 1960
The British ruled Hong Kong as a colony from 1842, when China ceded Hong Kong Island after the First Opium War. The colonial territory was expanded...
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Effects of a Brief Mindfulness Curriculum on Self-reported Executive Functioning and Emotion Regulation in Hong Kong Adolescents
ObjectivesSocial and emotional skills training is important for adolescents, whose stress vulnerability may be exacerbated during academic and social...
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Can watching the World Cup make you mentally healthier? Positive associations between involvement in physical activities and flourishing were mediated by psychological need satisfaction
BackgroundThe current understanding of the relationship between physical activity involvement and flourishing, as well as the underlying...
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Development in Childhood and Adolescence
This chapter asks whether and to what extent similar principles of child development can be discovered in all cultures and to what extent the...
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Cultural moderation in sports impact: exploring sports-induced effects on educational progress, cognitive focus, and social development in Chinese higher education
BackgroundThis research examines the nuanced challenges confronting Chinese university students within the dynamic milieu of Chinese education. The...
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You Get What You Pay For: Three Years of Applied Behavior Analysis in Hong Kong With Relative Cost
There are decades of research literature that support the effective application of applied behavior analysis (ABA) in schools that have students with...
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Effectiveness of Robotic Intervention on Improving Social Development and Participation of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder – A Randomised Controlled Trial
Evidence-based robotic intervention programmes for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have been limited. As yet, there is insufficient...
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The Longitudinal Associations of Household Economic Pressure and Home Chaos with Children’s Executive Functioning, Word Reading, and School Readiness
BackgroundEvidence shows that children’s household contexts of economic pressure and home chaos may better represent children’s daily home...
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The Development of School Satisfaction in Chinese Early Adolescents: The Contributions of Peer Liking and Academic Performance
Research in Western countries has shown a general declining trend of school satisfaction over time among adolescents, yet it remains unclear how...
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Guidance and counseling relations to high school students’ positive development and psychopathology: A non-recursive modeling study
School guidance and counseling services are important for adolescent development. This study focused on the predictive role of three main delivery...
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