Sheung-Tak Cheng
Biographic Data
| ID | 225037 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sheung-Tak Cheng |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sheung-Tak |
| FAMILY NAME | Cheng |
| SIGNATURE | CHENG S |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2923-4217 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 260 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Exploring the potential of large language models to understand interpersonal emotion regulation strategies from narratives
Interpersonal emotion regulation involves using diverse strategies to influence others' emotions, commonly assessed with questionnaires. However, this method may be less effective for individuals with limited literacy or introspection skills. To address this, recent studies have adopted narrative-based approaches, though these require time-intensive qualitative analysis. Given the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and large language model…
Perceived Life Expectancy Predicts Time Investment in Productive Aging Activities: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study
OBJECTIVES: Despite known benefits of productive aging, it is unclear what explains time allocation in productive activities. We investigated whether productive engagement in older people can be explained by their age, health, socioeconomic status, and perceived life expectancy in Hong Kong. METHODS: We interviewed 390 community-dwelling older persons for their health and perceived life expectancy, followed by a 7-day ecological momentary assessm…
Resilience as a protective factor against elder abuse by family caregivers: Findings from a cross-sectional study in Hong Kong
Purpose This study aims to explore the risk and protective factors of abuse on older adults by family caregivers, with a special focus on the protective role of caregiver resilience in elder abuse. Design/methodology/approach This cross-sectional survey was conducted on a purposive sample of 600 family caregivers of community-dwelling older adults in Hong Kong (mean age = 71.04 and female = 67.2%). Caregivers reported in a guided interview about …
Will there be a silver lining in the end? Lessons from and reflections on the Covid-19 pandemic in Hong Kong and beyond
This article provides an analysis of the psychological and moral transformations as people confront the risk of infection, using Hong Kong as a case example. In the face of an unfamiliar threat, the need for uncertainty reduction gives rise to hasty, uncritical, and oversimplified assumptions about risk reduction, while prejudice against people and nations who do not share similar practices, as well as those symptomatic or at risk of catching the…
Benefit-Finding Intervention Delivered Individually to Alzheimer Family Caregivers: Longer-Term Outcomes of a Randomized Double-Blind Controlled Trial
Benefit-finding is an efficacious intervention for depressive symptoms in Alzheimer caregivers, with strong effects in the medium-term post-intervention and possible moderate effects in the longer-term post-intervention
Perspective-Taking Interventions for Intergenerational Caregivers of Alzheimer’s Diseases: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Purpose: The present study examined the effects of perspective-taking (PT) intervention in the context of intergenerational caregiving. Method: Seventy-two adult child caregivers of persons living with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) were randomized into two 8-week interventions: (1) connecting through caregiving (CTC: 37 participants) with intergenerational PT reappraisals and (2) basic skill building (BSB: 35 participants). The CTC intervention focuse…
Unravelling positive aspects of caregiving in dementia: An integrative review of research literature
The Effect of Negative Aging Self-Stereotypes on Satisfaction With Social Support
The central role of the family as a support provider might be the reason why the activation of negative age stereotypes led to less satisfaction with family, but not nonfamily
Dementia Caregiver Burden: A Research Update and Critical Analysis
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: This article provides an updated review of the determinants of caregiver burden and depression, with a focus on care demands and especially the differential effects of various neuropsychiatric symptoms or symptom clusters. Moreover, studies on caregivers for frontotemporal and Lewy body dementias were referred to in order to identify differences and similarities with the mainstream literature based largely on Alzheimer caregive…
Self-Perception of Aging and Satisfaction With Children’s Support
A negative self-perception of aging may create vulnerability to intergenerational tension that puts older people at risk of adverse psychological and physical health outcomes
Positive Portrayals of Old Age Do Not Always Have Positive Consequences
These findings pinpoint the conditions under which positive portrayals of old age may benefit older adults
Gains and losses in creative personality as perceived by adults across the life span
In this study, we used a life span model to study the subjective perception of creative personality (CP) in emerging, young, middle-aged, and older Hong Kong Chinese adults. We also asked participants to estimate the approximate age by which people develop and lose CP across adulthood. We expected an interesting interplay between internalized age stereotypes and age-related differentiation in beliefs about personality development. Older adults pe…
Childlessness and Subjective Well-being in Chinese Widowed Persons
Findings support the importance of children, and supportive exchanges with them, for the subjective well-being of Chinese widowed persons. Being women and having physical dependencies might amplify the effects of childlessness
Gratitude Orientation Reduces Death Anxiety but Not Positive and Negative Affect
This study aims at investigating whether a gratitude induction procedure can reduce death anxiety and promote emotional well-being. Ninety Chinese undergraduate students were randomly assigned into one of three experimental conditions: gratitude, hassle, and neutral. In each condition, participants were instructed to spend 15-20 minutes to reflect on past events and to write up to five events of the designated category. Subsequently, they respond…
Social Exchanges and Subjective Well-being: Do Sources of Positive and Negative Exchanges Matter
Well-being is determined not just by social exchanges but also by where they come from. In this regard, the vertical family, the horizontal family, and the nonfamily represent a hierarchy of preference for Chinese older adults, which, to some extent, reflects the influence of familism
Shame, internalized heterosexism, lesbian identity, and coming out to others: A comparative study of lesbians in mainland China and Hong Kong.
The purpose of this study was to investigate coming out to family and friends and their relationships to shame, internalized heterosexism, lesbian identity, and perceived social support in Chinese lesbians from 2 different cultural settings-Mainland China (N = 244) and Hong Kong (N = 234). Results of structural equation modeling showed that, in both samples, a sense of shame was related to internalized heterosexism and a devaluation of one's lesb…
Global Aging: Challenges for Community Psychology
Citations and references Page 4, line 17 under heading “Impediments to Civic Participation by Older Persons Worldwide” “Cheng et al. 2008” refers to “Cheng, Chan, & Chan, 2008a” on the References list. Page 6, line 10 under heading “The Need for Alternative Models of Long-Term Care” “Cheng et al. 2008” should be “Cheng 2009”. All other citations to “Cheng et al. 2008” in text refers to “Cheng, Chan, & Phillips, 2008b” on the References list. Punc…
A Comparative Analysis of the Rural and Urban Older Victims of the 5.12 Sichuan Earthquake
Older people are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of natural disasters but their needs are often neglected in post-disaster aid work. Even less known is how the challenges faced by rural residents differ from those faced by urban residents, due to the relative lack of support infrastructure (e.g., medical services) in rural areas, particularly in developing countries. We report here a needs assessment survey of the needs of 150 older victim…
Generativity in Later Life: Perceived Respect From Younger Generations as a Determinant of Goal Disengagement and Psychological Well-being
It was hypothesized that actions to benefit the next generation would not lead to well-being unless they are perceived to be valued and respected and that the lack of perceived respect would further lead to disengagement from generative goals. Older persons responded to measures of generative concern, action, perceived respect, and psychological well-being at 2 time points 12 months apart. Structural equation modeling showed that at both time poi…
Social Network Types and Subjective Well-being in Chinese Older Adults
The study examined social network types in a sample of 1,005 older Chinese adults in Hong Kong and the networks' relations to subjective well-being. Given the nature of kinship in Chinese society, we broke down social support provision by closeness of blood ties (immediate kin, distant kin, and non-kin). Using K-means cluster analysis, we identified 5 network types: diverse, friend focused, restricted, family focused, and distant family. The latt…
The social networks of nursing-home residents in Hong Kong
The degree of social support available to older persons who are institutionalised is under-researched. This study investigated the structural and functional support exchanges with their social network members of 72 nursing home residents in Hong Kong (58 women, 14 men). They were asked to identify their network members, to evaluate the degree to which each one was important in their lives, and to rate the support received from and provided to eac…
Global Aging: Challenges for Community Psychology
Older persons are among the major marginalized, disenfranchised citizens worldwide, yet this group has generally been ignored in the community psychology literature. In this paper, we trace the demographic trends in aging worldwide, and draw the field's attention to the United Nations Program on Aging, which structures its policy recommendations in terms of concepts that are familiar to community psychologists. A central theme of the paper is tha…
The Impacts of the HIV/Aids Pandemic and Socioeconomic Development on the Living Arrangements of Older Persons in Sub‐Saharan Africa: A Country‐Level Analysis
This study investigates whether socioeconomic development and the HIV/AIDS pandemic are associated with living arrangement patterns in older persons in 23 sub‐Saharan African countries. Country‐level aggregate data were taken from previous household surveys and information provided by the United Nations, the World Bank, and the World Health Organization. Results showed that 13.5% of older persons (aged 60 years or over) were living with grandchil…
Older people's realisation of generativity in a changing society: The case of Hong Kong
Generativity refers to activities that help to establish and guide the next generation. This paper explores the nature of generative concern among older people and how it manifests itself in an era of rapid social and technological changes that have produced wide generation gaps. Eight focus groups were conducted with 51 women and 20 men who were recruited from social centres in Hong Kong on the basis of age, socio-economic status, and level of p…
Maintaining Self-Rated Health Through Social Comparison in Old Age
When self-related health (SRH) is under threat, people may use self-enhancement through social comparison to buffer against the threat. Because SRH is under greater threat among older than among younger adults, the benefit of social comparison on SRH may be greater for them. To test this, Study 1 examined ratings on physical attributes for self and "someone of the same age" among 592 Hong Kong Chinese, across young, middle, and old age. Findings …
Filial Piety and Psychological Well-Being in Well Older Chinese
Chinese older persons (N = 164) recruited from social centers responded to a survey instrument tapping the perceived filial behaviors of children (close vs not close), and the degree to which these behaviors matched personal expectations (filial discrepancy). Across all kinds of filial behaviors, providing attention when the parent was ill or distressed was perceived to be the least performed and was most discrepant with expectations. Whether the…
Social Network Types and Subjective Well-being in Chinese Older Adults
The study examined social network types in a sample of 1,005 older Chinese adults in Hong Kong and the networks' relations to subjective well-being. Given the nature of kinship in Chinese society, we broke down social support provision by closeness of blood ties (immediate kin, distant kin, and non-kin). Using K-means cluster analysis, we identified 5 network types: diverse, friend focused, restricted, family focused, and distant family. The latt…
Relationship With Others and Life Satisfaction in Later Life: Do Gender and Widowhood Make a Difference
In this study we investigated whether social relationship is a stronger determinant of life satisfaction in older women than in older men, and whether this is more obvious in widowed than in married persons, in a representative sample of Chinese individuals aged 60 or older in Hong Kong (N=1,616). We tested the moderating effect of gender and widowhood by means of a multigroup analysis in structural equation modeling that incorporated other major…
Generativity in Later Life: Perceived Respect From Younger Generations as a Determinant of Goal Disengagement and Psychological Well-being
It was hypothesized that actions to benefit the next generation would not lead to well-being unless they are perceived to be valued and respected and that the lack of perceived respect would further lead to disengagement from generative goals. Older persons responded to measures of generative concern, action, perceived respect, and psychological well-being at 2 time points 12 months apart. Structural equation modeling showed that at both time poi…
Maintaining Self-Rated Health Through Social Comparison in Old Age
When self-related health (SRH) is under threat, people may use self-enhancement through social comparison to buffer against the threat. Because SRH is under greater threat among older than among younger adults, the benefit of social comparison on SRH may be greater for them. To test this, Study 1 examined ratings on physical attributes for self and "someone of the same age" among 592 Hong Kong Chinese, across young, middle, and old age. Findings …
Social Exchanges and Subjective Well-being: Do Sources of Positive and Negative Exchanges Matter
Well-being is determined not just by social exchanges but also by where they come from. In this regard, the vertical family, the horizontal family, and the nonfamily represent a hierarchy of preference for Chinese older adults, which, to some extent, reflects the influence of familism
Social support and self-rated health revisited
The Impacts of the HIV/Aids Pandemic and Socioeconomic Development on the Living Arrangements of Older Persons in Sub‐Saharan Africa: A Country‐Level Analysis
This study investigates whether socioeconomic development and the HIV/AIDS pandemic are associated with living arrangement patterns in older persons in 23 sub‐Saharan African countries. Country‐level aggregate data were taken from previous household surveys and information provided by the United Nations, the World Bank, and the World Health Organization. Results showed that 13.5% of older persons (aged 60 years or over) were living with grandchil…
Childlessness and Subjective Well-being in Chinese Widowed Persons
Findings support the importance of children, and supportive exchanges with them, for the subjective well-being of Chinese widowed persons. Being women and having physical dependencies might amplify the effects of childlessness
Constructing a Quality of Life Scale for Older Chinese People in Hong Kong (HKQoLocp)
Positive Portrayals of Old Age Do Not Always Have Positive Consequences
These findings pinpoint the conditions under which positive portrayals of old age may benefit older adults
Global Aging: Challenges for Community Psychology
Older persons are among the major marginalized, disenfranchised citizens worldwide, yet this group has generally been ignored in the community psychology literature. In this paper, we trace the demographic trends in aging worldwide, and draw the field's attention to the United Nations Program on Aging, which structures its policy recommendations in terms of concepts that are familiar to community psychologists. A central theme of the paper is tha…
The social networks of nursing-home residents in Hong Kong
The degree of social support available to older persons who are institutionalised is under-researched. This study investigated the structural and functional support exchanges with their social network members of 72 nursing home residents in Hong Kong (58 women, 14 men). They were asked to identify their network members, to evaluate the degree to which each one was important in their lives, and to rate the support received from and provided to eac…
Quality of life in old age: An investigation of well older persons in Hong Kong
What might add quality to life during the last period of the life cycle? In study I, five focus groups of elderly participants representing different ages and socioeconomic backgrounds provided descriptions of quality of life (QOL) from their own perspectives. These descriptions formed the basis of a questionnaire that was administered to a representative, random sample of older persons in Hong Kong (N = 1,616) in study II. The study II sample wa…
Benefit-Finding Intervention Delivered Individually to Alzheimer Family Caregivers: Longer-Term Outcomes of a Randomized Double-Blind Controlled Trial
Benefit-finding is an efficacious intervention for depressive symptoms in Alzheimer caregivers, with strong effects in the medium-term post-intervention and possible moderate effects in the longer-term post-intervention
Self-Perception of Aging and Satisfaction With Children’s Support
A negative self-perception of aging may create vulnerability to intergenerational tension that puts older people at risk of adverse psychological and physical health outcomes
Older people's realisation of generativity in a changing society: The case of Hong Kong
Generativity refers to activities that help to establish and guide the next generation. This paper explores the nature of generative concern among older people and how it manifests itself in an era of rapid social and technological changes that have produced wide generation gaps. Eight focus groups were conducted with 51 women and 20 men who were recruited from social centres in Hong Kong on the basis of age, socio-economic status, and level of p…
The social context of Hong Kong's booming elderly home industry
Hong Kong experienced a rapid increase in private homes for elderly people in recent years. This paper examines the social background of that development. Private elderly homes thrived in a context of rising demand due to changing demographics, particularly massive emigration secondary to political instability, which created a large potential market of elderly people in need of residential care. However, entrepreneurs would not be attracted unles…
Resilience as a protective factor against elder abuse by family caregivers: Findings from a cross-sectional study in Hong Kong
Purpose This study aims to explore the risk and protective factors of abuse on older adults by family caregivers, with a special focus on the protective role of caregiver resilience in elder abuse. Design/methodology/approach This cross-sectional survey was conducted on a purposive sample of 600 family caregivers of community-dwelling older adults in Hong Kong (mean age = 71.04 and female = 67.2%). Caregivers reported in a guided interview about …
Perspective-Taking Interventions for Intergenerational Caregivers of Alzheimer’s Diseases: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Purpose: The present study examined the effects of perspective-taking (PT) intervention in the context of intergenerational caregiving. Method: Seventy-two adult child caregivers of persons living with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) were randomized into two 8-week interventions: (1) connecting through caregiving (CTC: 37 participants) with intergenerational PT reappraisals and (2) basic skill building (BSB: 35 participants). The CTC intervention focuse…
Gains and losses in creative personality as perceived by adults across the life span
In this study, we used a life span model to study the subjective perception of creative personality (CP) in emerging, young, middle-aged, and older Hong Kong Chinese adults. We also asked participants to estimate the approximate age by which people develop and lose CP across adulthood. We expected an interesting interplay between internalized age stereotypes and age-related differentiation in beliefs about personality development. Older adults pe…
Global Aging: Challenges for Community Psychology
Citations and references Page 4, line 17 under heading “Impediments to Civic Participation by Older Persons Worldwide” “Cheng et al. 2008” refers to “Cheng, Chan, & Chan, 2008a” on the References list. Page 6, line 10 under heading “The Need for Alternative Models of Long-Term Care” “Cheng et al. 2008” should be “Cheng 2009”. All other citations to “Cheng et al. 2008” in text refers to “Cheng, Chan, & Phillips, 2008b” on the References list. Punc…
Health-care inflation: A missed opportunity
Since the 1960s, the social sciences have shown a lot of interest in the role of psychosocial factors (e.g., stress) in health. Also during that time, the United States has been seriously concerned about the spiraling of health care costs. If there is a point to make about the contribution of psychosocial factors to health and illness, there should be a point to make about their contribution to health care utilization and costs. However, social s…
Change processes in the professional bureaucracy
The limits of organizational change often make effective implementation of policies difficult. This article examines how change can be accomplished in the professional bureaucracy. Examples in community mental health and compensatory education are employed to illustrate the points discussed. It is concluded that because professionals function independently and their work cannot be easily replaced, change in the professional bureaucracy would inev…
Loneliness-distress and physician utilization in well-elderly females
Two samples (N = 112 and 115) of females aged 65–85, recruited from senior centers and groups, were surveyed with respect to the determinants of their use of physician services. The results of the two samples are fairly consistent: (a) Sociodemographic variables are not useful in predicting physician utilization; (b) health status accounts for about 30% of the variance in frequency of visits; (c) psychosocial factors, in particular loneliness-dis…
The social context of Hong Kong's booming elderly home industry
Hong Kong experienced a rapid increase in private homes for elderly people in recent years. This paper examines the social background of that development. Private elderly homes thrived in a context of rising demand due to changing demographics, particularly massive emigration secondary to political instability, which created a large potential market of elderly people in need of residential care. However, entrepreneurs would not be attracted unles…
The Development and Validation of an Index of Emotional Disposition and Mood State: The Chinese Affect Scale
A short measure of trait and state negative and positive affect (Chinese Affect Scale) was developed for Chinese-speaking people. From indigenously derived affect markers the characteristic two-factor structure of affect was derived in both a student and an adult sample in Hong Kong. Scores from the resulting negative (NA) and positive (PA) affect scales had reasonable internal and retest reliabilities and high convergent and discriminant validit…
A critical review of Chinese Koro
The Stability of Symptom Measures: Implications for Stress Research
Forty-nine female undergraduates completed life events and stress ratings on a daily basis over a 4-week period. They also completed a checklist of physical and psychological symptoms at the end of each week. Data from this study as well as others reported in the literature showed that physical and psychological symptom scores are highly stable over time. Although life events and stress ratings predicted future symptoms, the correlations diminish…
Sex, Competitiveness, and Intimacy in Same-Sex Friendship in Hong Kong Adolescents
One of the alleged reasons that males report lower intimacy in same-sex friendships than females is that males tend to be more competitive than females, but this assumption has not been empirically tested. In the current study, 121 Hong Kong adolescents filled out Chinese versions of the Intimate Friendship Scale and the Competitiveness Index. As predicted, females reported having more intimate same-sex relationships than males, and they scored l…
The Development of a Brief Measure of School Attitude
This article reports on the development of a brief measure of school attitude, validated in a sample of Hong Kong secondary school students. The 9-item scale incorporates the three components of school attitude—cognition, affect, and behavioral intention—into a single measure, and the scores showed high internal consistency and test-retest reliability. Confirmatory factor analysis showed that the items tap a unidimensional latent construct that i…
The multidimensional scale of perceived social support: Dimensionality and age and gender differences in adolescents
Quality of life in old age: An investigation of well older persons in Hong Kong
What might add quality to life during the last period of the life cycle? In study I, five focus groups of elderly participants representing different ages and socioeconomic backgrounds provided descriptions of quality of life (QOL) from their own perspectives. These descriptions formed the basis of a questionnaire that was administered to a representative, random sample of older persons in Hong Kong (N = 1,616) in study II. The study II sample wa…
Constructing a Quality of Life Scale for Older Chinese People in Hong Kong (HKQoLocp)
The Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale in older Chinese: Thresholds for long and short forms
Filial Piety and Psychological Well-Being in Well Older Chinese
Chinese older persons (N = 164) recruited from social centers responded to a survey instrument tapping the perceived filial behaviors of children (close vs not close), and the degree to which these behaviors matched personal expectations (filial discrepancy). Across all kinds of filial behaviors, providing attention when the parent was ill or distressed was perceived to be the least performed and was most discrepant with expectations. Whether the…
Relationship With Others and Life Satisfaction in Later Life: Do Gender and Widowhood Make a Difference
In this study we investigated whether social relationship is a stronger determinant of life satisfaction in older women than in older men, and whether this is more obvious in widowed than in married persons, in a representative sample of Chinese individuals aged 60 or older in Hong Kong (N=1,616). We tested the moderating effect of gender and widowhood by means of a multigroup analysis in structural equation modeling that incorporated other major…
Social support and self-rated health revisited
Maintaining Self-Rated Health Through Social Comparison in Old Age
When self-related health (SRH) is under threat, people may use self-enhancement through social comparison to buffer against the threat. Because SRH is under greater threat among older than among younger adults, the benefit of social comparison on SRH may be greater for them. To test this, Study 1 examined ratings on physical attributes for self and "someone of the same age" among 592 Hong Kong Chinese, across young, middle, and old age. Findings …
Older people's realisation of generativity in a changing society: The case of Hong Kong
Generativity refers to activities that help to establish and guide the next generation. This paper explores the nature of generative concern among older people and how it manifests itself in an era of rapid social and technological changes that have produced wide generation gaps. Eight focus groups were conducted with 51 women and 20 men who were recruited from social centres in Hong Kong on the basis of age, socio-economic status, and level of p…
A Comparative Analysis of the Rural and Urban Older Victims of the 5.12 Sichuan Earthquake
Older people are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of natural disasters but their needs are often neglected in post-disaster aid work. Even less known is how the challenges faced by rural residents differ from those faced by urban residents, due to the relative lack of support infrastructure (e.g., medical services) in rural areas, particularly in developing countries. We report here a needs assessment survey of the needs of 150 older victim…
Generativity in Later Life: Perceived Respect From Younger Generations as a Determinant of Goal Disengagement and Psychological Well-being
It was hypothesized that actions to benefit the next generation would not lead to well-being unless they are perceived to be valued and respected and that the lack of perceived respect would further lead to disengagement from generative goals. Older persons responded to measures of generative concern, action, perceived respect, and psychological well-being at 2 time points 12 months apart. Structural equation modeling showed that at both time poi…
Social Network Types and Subjective Well-being in Chinese Older Adults
The study examined social network types in a sample of 1,005 older Chinese adults in Hong Kong and the networks' relations to subjective well-being. Given the nature of kinship in Chinese society, we broke down social support provision by closeness of blood ties (immediate kin, distant kin, and non-kin). Using K-means cluster analysis, we identified 5 network types: diverse, friend focused, restricted, family focused, and distant family. The latt…
The social networks of nursing-home residents in Hong Kong
The degree of social support available to older persons who are institutionalised is under-researched. This study investigated the structural and functional support exchanges with their social network members of 72 nursing home residents in Hong Kong (58 women, 14 men). They were asked to identify their network members, to evaluate the degree to which each one was important in their lives, and to rate the support received from and provided to eac…
Global Aging: Challenges for Community Psychology
Older persons are among the major marginalized, disenfranchised citizens worldwide, yet this group has generally been ignored in the community psychology literature. In this paper, we trace the demographic trends in aging worldwide, and draw the field's attention to the United Nations Program on Aging, which structures its policy recommendations in terms of concepts that are familiar to community psychologists. A central theme of the paper is tha…
The Impacts of the HIV/Aids Pandemic and Socioeconomic Development on the Living Arrangements of Older Persons in Sub‐Saharan Africa: A Country‐Level Analysis
This study investigates whether socioeconomic development and the HIV/AIDS pandemic are associated with living arrangement patterns in older persons in 23 sub‐Saharan African countries. Country‐level aggregate data were taken from previous household surveys and information provided by the United Nations, the World Bank, and the World Health Organization. Results showed that 13.5% of older persons (aged 60 years or over) were living with grandchil…
Shame, internalized heterosexism, lesbian identity, and coming out to others: A comparative study of lesbians in mainland China and Hong Kong.
The purpose of this study was to investigate coming out to family and friends and their relationships to shame, internalized heterosexism, lesbian identity, and perceived social support in Chinese lesbians from 2 different cultural settings-Mainland China (N = 244) and Hong Kong (N = 234). Results of structural equation modeling showed that, in both samples, a sense of shame was related to internalized heterosexism and a devaluation of one's lesb…
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