Pearly Wong
Biographic Data
| ID | 104100 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pearly Wong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pearly |
| FAMILY NAME | Wong |
| SIGNATURE | WONG P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-5915-6602 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 312 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Designing Research to Capture and Understand Variations in Higher Education in Prison
Higher Education in Prison (HEP) has expanded dramatically due to its success in effecting change in students, their families, and institutions. However, in demonstrating its effectiveness, research has lumped together a vast array of courses into a single construct of HEP. In this conceptual article, we encourage the discipline to think beyond this HEP monolith in order to capture and understand the variation that exists within HEP. We offer thr…
The Impact of Culinary Education on Adolescents' Psychosocial Wellbeing
Culinary education appears to have psychosocial benefits among children and adults; however, this remains unclear among adolescents. This review aimed to synthesise evidence examining the impact of culinary education on adolescents' psychosocial wellbeing. A literature search was conducted in six databases to identify articles published in 2005–2025 in English, using search terms related to culinary education, psychosocial wellbeing, and adolesce…
Expanding Sources of Recognition
An evaluation of a pilot counselling model in Hong Kong for individuals with mild-to-moderate psychological issues
The purpose of this study is to examine the efficacy of a three-session free-of-charge counselling model delivered by trained master’s-level counsellors. One-hundred-and-five people who scored mild or moderate levels on the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale and had not been diagnosed or treated for any psychiatric illness in the past year participated. Data from the pre-intervention, post-intervention, and three-month follow-up questionnaires were …
Acceptability and feasibility of the World Health Organization's Caregiver Skills Training Programme (WHO CST) delivered via eLearning, videoconferencing, and in-person hybrid modalities in Hong Kong
Current findings revealed that CST delivered in three alternative modes were acceptable and feasible, and yielded positive impacts toward both caregivers and children. In-person coaching, and skill-practicing sessions were effective in mitigating child's challenging behaviors while personal interaction, either face-to-face or virtual, is a significant factor in uplifting caregivers' well-being, whereas the self-learning model was appreciated by t…
Collective Motivational Interviewing for Individuals with Drug Use Problems
Collective motivational interviewing (CMI) is a novelty motivational approach which optimises the motivational interviewing (MI) for individuals from collectivistic cultures. While MI has been empirically tested as an effective intervention for addictive disorders and has had a positive effect on facilitating lifestyle changes, CMI has retained the potency of MI as an individualistic intervention, and it further invites the social network resourc…
Collective Motivational Interviewing for Substance Use Problems
Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in the United States
The Resilience of Social Service Providers and Families of Children With Autism or Development Delays During the Covid-19 Pandemic—A Community Case Study in Hong Kong
Background: Hong Kong is one of the earliest cities to have hampered by the COVID-19. When preventive public health measures are enforced, specific groups, who have already been facing inequality before the outbreak, are likely to become more overlooked and vulnerable. Aim: This community case study aims to describe the additional needs of families of children with autism spectrum disorder and other developmental issues, as well as unexpected dif…
Developing a conceptual framework towards promoting a socially inclusive Hong Kong
ABSTRACAn empirically driven consolidated framework is needed to help navigate the development of social inclusion of South Asian and Southeast Asian ethnic minorities in Hong Kong. A qualitative pilot study with 11 individuals, who were social service providers and religious and ethnic community leaders from diverse ethnic backgrounds, was conducted to collect their perceptions of how existing policies affect the social integration of ethnic min…
Dependent convenience
Rural transformation in Nepal is characterized by accelerating out-migration, along with shifting aspirations for becoming "developed" or "modern," which are associated with urban and foreign infrastructure and consumption. In this context, I examine how convenience practices and technologies interact with the social processes of migration and how they together impact people's life choices and produce socioenvironmental and health consequences. U…
Annual Kathmandu Conference on Nepal and the Himalaya
The Vulnerable State and Technical Fixes
I conduct discourse analysis of seven selected official climate change policies and documents of Nepal. In the first part of my analysis, I draw from international climate justice discourses to analyze how policy makers construct Nepal's position in the global arena, in relation to the issue of climate change. In the second part, I draw from political ecology and anthropological understandings of 'vulnerability' and 'adaptation' to analyze how po…
Hikikomori Phenomenon in East Asia
Hikikomori, which originated in Japan, refers to the condition where youths withdraw into the home and do not participate in society for an extended period of time. Recent updates on hikikomori presentation within the region were exchanged at a Hikikomori Round Table and Regional Symposium (HRTRS) discussion late 2017, leading to this perspective paper. Hikikomori presents as an overall homogeneous construct, while diversity in clinical presentat…
Companion Animal Ownership and Human Well-Being in a Metropolis—The Case of Hong Kong
Global urbanization has given cause for a re-assessment of the nature and importance of the relationship between humans and domesticated animals. In densely-populated urban societies, where loneliness and alienation can be prevalent, the use of animals as human companions has taken on heightened importance. Hong Kong is the world's most urbanised political entity, and thus provides an ideal context for the exploration of the role of animals in th…
Exploring the culturally specific factors of mental health in South Asian minority students in Hong Kong
Ethnic minority mental health in Hong Kong is understudied. This study assessed the mental well-being of minority youth in Hong Kong and explored culturally relevant factors that may promote or adversely affect this well-being. Four focus groups (including Pakistani and Indian students) were involved in this pilot qualitative study. Thematic analysis generated five main themes, related to: positive mental health outcomes for students: (1) peer an…
Examining the Association Between Resilience and Risk Behaviors Among South Asian Minority Students in Hong Kong
The relationship between risk behaviors and resilience among South Asian minority youth identifying themselves as Pakistani, Indian, Pakistani-Hong Konger, or Indian-Hong Konger (N = 405) in a Hong Kong school setting was investigated using hierarchical linear regression analysis. Lower neighborhood disorganization, higher neighborhood characteristics, and higher individual resilience predicted lower likelihood of substance use in all ethnic grou…
Integrating resilience and positive youth development for the promotion of positive health behaviours among ethnic minorities
Hong Kong, a traditionally ethnically homogeneous society, seems to fail encouraging positive development of ethnic minority young people. Studying resilient ethnic minority, young adults may provide insights into developing programmes and policies to encourage positive health behaviours. A pilot qualitative study of individual interviews with South Asian young minority adults was conducted to develop a conceptual framework by incorporating resil…
Commentary on
Efficacy of a Multicomponent Intervention with Animal-Assisted Therapy for Socially Withdrawn Youth in Hong Kong
This is an evaluation study of a pilot multicomponent program with animal-assisted therapy ( AAT ) for socially withdrawn youth with or without mental health problems in Hong Kong. There were fifty-six participants. Decreased level of social anxiety, and increased levels of perceived employability and self-esteem across two withdrawn groups were observed. When comparing those who did and did not receive the AAT component(s), however, AAT did not …
Building a typology of young people’s conventional and online political participation
Previous studies of the impact of social media on youth’s participation in politics are largely inconclusive. It is partly attributable to a diverse conceptualization of political participation and media use. Using a holistic definition of political participation and an analytical approach of building a typology of political participation, this study constructed a four-group typology for young people’s political participation in a randomized mobi…
Knowledge, attitudes and behaviors associated with mental illness among the working population in Hong Kong
Mental health-related issues such as stress and depressive symptoms are common in the workplace and costly to both employees and employers. Stigma against mental illness limits one’s help-seeking attitudes and behavior, thereby leading to social isolation and deteriorating performance in the workplace. This study aimed at examining what aspects of knowledge, attitude and previous contacts with people with mental illness influence working adults’ …
Beyond Recovery
It is a worldwide trend that more households are having pets or companion animals. Hence, there has been an increasing number of animal lovers experience companion animal loss bereavement. This form of bereavement has not been explored in Chinese societies. We conducted a qualitative study using in-depth interviews with 31 animal lovers and recruited through convenience and snowball sampling in Hong Kong. Companion animal loss bereavement appears…
Health and Psychosocial Service Use among Suicides without Psychiatric Illness
Although mental illness is a major suicide risk factor, some cases of suicide list no symptoms of mental disorder at the time of death. Studying suicides without psychiatric illness has important implications for social work because this group's service needs seem to have been overlooked. The authors of this article conducted a psychological autopsy study of 150 people who committed suicide and 150 age- and gender-matched living controls. Suicide…
Suicide Notes in Hong Kong in 2000
Suicide notes have been regarded as one of the most informative data sources to understand the reasons why people commit suicide. However, there is a paucity of suicide note studies, leaving researchers with an assumption that this phenomenon remains static over time. This study examines this assumption by comparing the characteristics of note-leavers of the same population at 2 different points in time. The authors investigated the characteristi…
Strangers From A Different Shore
Theory of Segmented Assimilation and the Adoption of Marijuana use and Delinquent Behavior by Asian Pacific Youth
This article examines the adoption of behaviors of the teen drug and delinquent subcultures among Asian Pacific youth within the framework of the theory of segmented assimilation. Alejandro Portes and Min Zhou's theory offers a new perspective to the question: Under what conditions are youth susceptible to marijuana use and delinquent behavior? In contrast to Milton Gordon's classic one-path theory, segmented assimilation theory looks to the immi…
A Study of Sexual Satisfaction and Frequency of Sex Among Hong Kong Chinese Couples
There have been several studies in Western societies on the causes and consequences of sexual satisfaction within marriage. Little is known, however about the marital sexual relationship in Chinese societies. Moreover, most published studies used married individuals rather than married couples as participants. The present study examined data from a well-established knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) survey of 1,124 Hong Kong Chinese couples …
Building a typology of young people’s conventional and online political participation
Previous studies of the impact of social media on youth’s participation in politics are largely inconclusive. It is partly attributable to a diverse conceptualization of political participation and media use. Using a holistic definition of political participation and an analytical approach of building a typology of political participation, this study constructed a four-group typology for young people’s political participation in a randomized mobi…
Exploring the culturally specific factors of mental health in South Asian minority students in Hong Kong
Ethnic minority mental health in Hong Kong is understudied. This study assessed the mental well-being of minority youth in Hong Kong and explored culturally relevant factors that may promote or adversely affect this well-being. Four focus groups (including Pakistani and Indian students) were involved in this pilot qualitative study. Thematic analysis generated five main themes, related to: positive mental health outcomes for students: (1) peer an…
Dependent convenience
Rural transformation in Nepal is characterized by accelerating out-migration, along with shifting aspirations for becoming "developed" or "modern," which are associated with urban and foreign infrastructure and consumption. In this context, I examine how convenience practices and technologies interact with the social processes of migration and how they together impact people's life choices and produce socioenvironmental and health consequences. U…
Integrating resilience and positive youth development for the promotion of positive health behaviours among ethnic minorities
Hong Kong, a traditionally ethnically homogeneous society, seems to fail encouraging positive development of ethnic minority young people. Studying resilient ethnic minority, young adults may provide insights into developing programmes and policies to encourage positive health behaviours. A pilot qualitative study of individual interviews with South Asian young minority adults was conducted to develop a conceptual framework by incorporating resil…
Commentary on
Asiacentrism and Asian American Studies
(1995). Asiacentrism and Asian American Studies? Amerasia Journal: Vol. 21, No. 1-2, pp. 137-148
Issei, Nisei, and Sansei
Storage and Retrieval of Data on Communist China
Research Article| May 01 1968 Storage and Retrieval of Data on Communist China Paul Wong Paul Wong Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1939) 8 (5): 378–383. https://doi.org/10.2307/2642319 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site …
Coding and Analysis of Documentary Materials from Communist China
Research Article| March 01 1967 Coding and Analysis of Documentary Materials from Communist China Paul Wong Paul Wong Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1938) 7 (3): 198–211. https://doi.org/10.2307/2642238 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Ico…
Coding and Analysis of Documentary Materials from Communist China
Research Article| March 01 1967 Coding and Analysis of Documentary Materials from Communist China Paul Wong Paul Wong Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1938) 7 (3): 198–211. https://doi.org/10.2307/2642238 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Ico…
Storage and Retrieval of Data on Communist China
Research Article| May 01 1968 Storage and Retrieval of Data on Communist China Paul Wong Paul Wong Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1939) 8 (5): 378–383. https://doi.org/10.2307/2642319 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site …
Small Groups and Political Rituals in China
From Vietnam to America
Issei, Nisei, and Sansei
Strangers From A Different Shore
Asiacentrism and Asian American Studies
(1995). Asiacentrism and Asian American Studies? Amerasia Journal: Vol. 21, No. 1-2, pp. 137-148
Race, Ethnicity, And Nationality In The United States
Introduction Paul Wong * Racism Today: Continuity and Change in the PostCivil Rights Era Howard Winant * Racial Identity and the State: Contesting the Federal Standards for Classification Michael Omi * From the Immigrant Paradigm to the Praxis of Transformative Critique: The Situation of Asians in Late Capitalist United States E. San Juan Jr. * The New Racism: Toward an Analysis of the U.S. Racial Structure, 1960s1990s Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, with…
Theory of Segmented Assimilation and the Adoption of Marijuana use and Delinquent Behavior by Asian Pacific Youth
This article examines the adoption of behaviors of the teen drug and delinquent subcultures among Asian Pacific youth within the framework of the theory of segmented assimilation. Alejandro Portes and Min Zhou's theory offers a new perspective to the question: Under what conditions are youth susceptible to marijuana use and delinquent behavior? In contrast to Milton Gordon's classic one-path theory, segmented assimilation theory looks to the immi…
A Study of Sexual Satisfaction and Frequency of Sex Among Hong Kong Chinese Couples
There have been several studies in Western societies on the causes and consequences of sexual satisfaction within marriage. Little is known, however about the marital sexual relationship in Chinese societies. Moreover, most published studies used married individuals rather than married couples as participants. The present study examined data from a well-established knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) survey of 1,124 Hong Kong Chinese couples …
Suicide Notes in Hong Kong in 2000
Suicide notes have been regarded as one of the most informative data sources to understand the reasons why people commit suicide. However, there is a paucity of suicide note studies, leaving researchers with an assumption that this phenomenon remains static over time. This study examines this assumption by comparing the characteristics of note-leavers of the same population at 2 different points in time. The authors investigated the characteristi…
Health and Psychosocial Service Use among Suicides without Psychiatric Illness
Although mental illness is a major suicide risk factor, some cases of suicide list no symptoms of mental disorder at the time of death. Studying suicides without psychiatric illness has important implications for social work because this group's service needs seem to have been overlooked. The authors of this article conducted a psychological autopsy study of 150 people who committed suicide and 150 age- and gender-matched living controls. Suicide…
Beyond Recovery
It is a worldwide trend that more households are having pets or companion animals. Hence, there has been an increasing number of animal lovers experience companion animal loss bereavement. This form of bereavement has not been explored in Chinese societies. We conducted a qualitative study using in-depth interviews with 31 animal lovers and recruited through convenience and snowball sampling in Hong Kong. Companion animal loss bereavement appears…
Building a typology of young people’s conventional and online political participation
Previous studies of the impact of social media on youth’s participation in politics are largely inconclusive. It is partly attributable to a diverse conceptualization of political participation and media use. Using a holistic definition of political participation and an analytical approach of building a typology of political participation, this study constructed a four-group typology for young people’s political participation in a randomized mobi…
Knowledge, attitudes and behaviors associated with mental illness among the working population in Hong Kong
Mental health-related issues such as stress and depressive symptoms are common in the workplace and costly to both employees and employers. Stigma against mental illness limits one’s help-seeking attitudes and behavior, thereby leading to social isolation and deteriorating performance in the workplace. This study aimed at examining what aspects of knowledge, attitude and previous contacts with people with mental illness influence working adults’ …
Efficacy of a Multicomponent Intervention with Animal-Assisted Therapy for Socially Withdrawn Youth in Hong Kong
This is an evaluation study of a pilot multicomponent program with animal-assisted therapy ( AAT ) for socially withdrawn youth with or without mental health problems in Hong Kong. There were fifty-six participants. Decreased level of social anxiety, and increased levels of perceived employability and self-esteem across two withdrawn groups were observed. When comparing those who did and did not receive the AAT component(s), however, AAT did not …
Integrating resilience and positive youth development for the promotion of positive health behaviours among ethnic minorities
Hong Kong, a traditionally ethnically homogeneous society, seems to fail encouraging positive development of ethnic minority young people. Studying resilient ethnic minority, young adults may provide insights into developing programmes and policies to encourage positive health behaviours. A pilot qualitative study of individual interviews with South Asian young minority adults was conducted to develop a conceptual framework by incorporating resil…
Commentary on
Hikikomori Phenomenon in East Asia
Hikikomori, which originated in Japan, refers to the condition where youths withdraw into the home and do not participate in society for an extended period of time. Recent updates on hikikomori presentation within the region were exchanged at a Hikikomori Round Table and Regional Symposium (HRTRS) discussion late 2017, leading to this perspective paper. Hikikomori presents as an overall homogeneous construct, while diversity in clinical presentat…
Companion Animal Ownership and Human Well-Being in a Metropolis—The Case of Hong Kong
Global urbanization has given cause for a re-assessment of the nature and importance of the relationship between humans and domesticated animals. In densely-populated urban societies, where loneliness and alienation can be prevalent, the use of animals as human companions has taken on heightened importance. Hong Kong is the world's most urbanised political entity, and thus provides an ideal context for the exploration of the role of animals in th…
Exploring the culturally specific factors of mental health in South Asian minority students in Hong Kong
Ethnic minority mental health in Hong Kong is understudied. This study assessed the mental well-being of minority youth in Hong Kong and explored culturally relevant factors that may promote or adversely affect this well-being. Four focus groups (including Pakistani and Indian students) were involved in this pilot qualitative study. Thematic analysis generated five main themes, related to: positive mental health outcomes for students: (1) peer an…
Examining the Association Between Resilience and Risk Behaviors Among South Asian Minority Students in Hong Kong
The relationship between risk behaviors and resilience among South Asian minority youth identifying themselves as Pakistani, Indian, Pakistani-Hong Konger, or Indian-Hong Konger (N = 405) in a Hong Kong school setting was investigated using hierarchical linear regression analysis. Lower neighborhood disorganization, higher neighborhood characteristics, and higher individual resilience predicted lower likelihood of substance use in all ethnic grou…
Annual Kathmandu Conference on Nepal and the Himalaya
The Vulnerable State and Technical Fixes
I conduct discourse analysis of seven selected official climate change policies and documents of Nepal. In the first part of my analysis, I draw from international climate justice discourses to analyze how policy makers construct Nepal's position in the global arena, in relation to the issue of climate change. In the second part, I draw from political ecology and anthropological understandings of 'vulnerability' and 'adaptation' to analyze how po…
Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in the United States
Psychology (18 works) · Political science (17 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Ethnic group (9 works) · Psychiatry (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works)