Amy Yin Man Chow
Biographic Data
| ID | 260055 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy Yin Man Chow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy Yin Man |
| FAMILY NAME | Chow |
| SIGNATURE | CHOW A Y M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4126-7815 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Conundrums and Paradoxes in the Pre-Death Grief Experiences of Dementia Caregivers
The role of the social environment on dementia caregivers’ pre-death grief
How Social Environment Shapes Pre-Death Grief Experiences in Dementia Caregiving
Caregivers of persons living with dementia experience significant losses as they witness the progressive cognitive decline and personality changes of their loved ones while managing substantial caregiving responsibilities. This results in pre-death grief, which is a multifaceted response to the losses experienced. Although pre-death grief is traditionally conceptualized as an intrapersonal and dyadic phenomenon, this study examines how social env…
Using Triadic Interview to Explore Complex Interactional-Based Phenomena
Many qualitative studies are carried out by interviewing one participant. When understanding the dynamic interactions and consented conclusion of two or more participants is the research focus, single-participant interviews are not adequate as they can only provide a one-sided picture of the phenomenon. Dyadic interviews capture interactions between two participants. However, no reports of triadic interviews in research have been used by research…
Students’ motivation and engagement in interprofessional education
This study underscores the importance of peer relatedness in IPE, highlighting its role in harnessing student motivation to foster student engagement. The findings contribute to a deeper understanding of the psychosocial mechanisms in IPE and highlight the value of collaborative learning environments in fulfilling students' need for relatedness, thereby fostering adaptive IPE learning outcomes. The implications and limitations of the study are al…
Bereavement dyadic coping questionnaire
Most theories and empirical studies of bereavement coping focus on the individual, although researchers have highlighted the importance of family-level coping and proposed the concept of bereavement dyadic coping (BDC). We developed and validated a 25-item Bereavement Dyadic Coping Questionnaire (BDCQ). The procedure includes item generation, expert review, and examination of the psychometric properties in 241 bereaved persons in bereaved familie…
Influencing factors of nurses’ short-term bereavement reactions after patient death
An online cross-sectional survey was performed among 181 nurses in mainland China who experienced their most recent patient death within the last month. Multivariate linear regressions were used following bivariate analysis to identify influencing factors for their short-term professional bereavement reactions. More intensive reactions were associated with the nurse's fewer experiences of patient death; the nurse's employment in the intensive car…
The meaning of patient deaths for professional caregivers
The meaning of patient deaths is key to understanding professional bereavement. To validate its construct, we applied partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) to online survey data from 563 Chinese physicians and nurses. Both the personal meaning and professional meaning contribute significantly while not interchangeably to the meaning of patient deaths. In addition to the loss of an acquaintance, the loss of a valuable life, a…
Self-Determination Competencies, (Dis)Agreement in Decision-Making, and Personal Well-Being of Adults with Mild Intellectual Disabilities in Hong Kong
A positive correlation between self-determination and personal well-being was confirmed in a Chinese population with mild ID. These findings expand the understanding of the types of personal goals and agreement patterns of people with mild ID and yield implications for further research and practices
Determinants of Organ Donation Registration Among University Students in Hong Kong
The present study explored the determinants of registration to facilitate the promotion of posthumous organ donation based on the theory of reasoned actions. A total of 211 university students participated in the study. Logistic regression, multiple regressions, and path analysis were conducted. The logistic regression model correctly predicted nearly 80% of registration status, and a good fit model of registration for posthumous organ donation (…
Bereavement After Patient Deaths Among Chinese Physicians and Nurses
In order to achieve an in-depth understanding of professional caregivers' experiences of bereavement after patient deaths in Mainland China, qualitative description was employed. 24 physicians and nurses from hospitals in Nanjing, China, participated in one-to-one, semi-structured interviews. Thematic analysis was adopted for data analysis. Five themes were generated: the nature of professional bereavement experiences, the meaning of patient deat…
Introduction—When Social Work Meets Disaster
As disasters have become more frequent and more devastating in recent years, social workers have become attuned to the incorporation of disaster work into their practice. Widespread, catastrophic events such as fires, floods, mud slides, sea level rises and earthquakes together with human-induced events such as bombings and terrorist acts have compelled social workers across the globe into the front lines of service responses. It was with this in…
Preliminary Development of a Postmortem Bodily Integrity Concerns Scale Among the University Students in Hong Kong
The idea of keeping a body intact has been a major barrier that hinders people from making decision for posthumous organ donation or making consent for their deceased family member. The present research thus attempted to bridge the knowledge gap by conducting an exploratory study to identify the underlying beliefs, and a preliminary validation study to confirm the scale developed thereof. Nineteen university students participated in 5 semistructu…
Grief literacy
The compassionate communities movement challenges the notion that death and dying should be housed within clinical and institutional contexts, and works to normalize conversations about death and dying by promoting death literacy and dialogue in public spaces. Community-based practices and conversations about grief remain marginal in this agenda. We aimed to theorize how grief could be better conceptualized and operationalized within the compassi…
Professional caregivers’ bereavement after patients’ deaths
We conducted a scoping review of quantitative studies on professional caregivers' bereavement after patients' deaths following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines. We found 12 studies involving 1317 professional caregivers that met inclusion criteria. Professional caregivers commonly had moderate, and sometimes long-term, bereavement reactions after patients' death. The evidence of factors affecting profe…
Can grief be a mental disorder? An online survey on public opinion in mainland China
This study investigates Chinese people's opinions about the diagnosis of grief and the factors associated with their opinions. Among 1041 participants who completed the online survey, over half (56.5%) agreed that grief could be a mental disorder under certain circumstances, such as harm to self or others, functional impairment, and persistent grief. Primary reasons against the diagnosis were that grief is normal and its intensity decreases over …
A Validation Study of the Posthumous Organ Donation Reasoned Action Scale
The posthumous organ donation reasoned action scale (PODRAS) may be the first multidimensional scale measuring individuals' perceptions, which is developed based on the Theory of Reasoned Action and guided by empirical data. This study moves further to validate the scale and examine its psychometric properties. Two hundred and twenty-one university students participated in the study. Results suggested that the scale has a structure with six dimen…
A Cultural Sociological Review of Chinese Funeral Rituals
This chapter provides a review of the theoretical underpinnings regarding rituals; a discussion of the significance of Chinese funeral rituals; and, an examination of the dynamics of the current social forces shaping the sacred funeral rituals, with a specific focus on Hong Kong. Despite being grouped under "Chinese" and in the umbrella of the three major religions of China – Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism – specific funeral rituals actually …
Fate control and well-being in Chinese rural people living with HIV
Fate control has been often misconceptualized as a superstitious belief and overlooked in health psychology. It is not known how this cultural belief might impact the well-being of Chinese people living with HIV. This study examined the protective role of fate control for well-being and the potential mediation effect of resilience. Participants in this study were rural patients who contracted HIV via commercial blood donation. In this cross-secti…
Emotional flexibility
The Emotional Flexibility Scale provides a brief, reliable, and valid measure of emotion regulation ability of adolescents faced with disasters. (PsycINFO Database Record
A pilot study to validate measures of the theory of reasoned action for organ donation behavior
The present study aimed at taking the first attempt in validating the measures generated based on the theory of reasoned action (TRA). A total of 211 university students participated in the study, 95 were included in the exploratory factor analysis and 116 were included in the confirmatory factor analysis. The TRA measurements were established with adequate psychometric properties, internal consistency, and construct validity. Findings also sugge…
An Exploratory Study on University Students’ Perceptions of Posthumous Organ Donation Base on the Theory of Reasoned Action
In view of the general support for organ donation but low registration rate in Hong Kong, the present research attempted to understand the attitude-behavior inconsistency by identifying the underlying beliefs for organ donation through employing the theory of reasoned action. A qualitative approach using semi-structured focus groups was adopted and 19 students from three universities in Hong Kong participated; 10 constructs were identified: attit…
The body of knowledge in thanatology
The Association for Death Education and Counseling has updated its articulation of the body of knowledge in the field of thanatology. In doing so it has relinquished the use of a matrix format in favor of a more serviceable outline containing three major sections: Arenas of Thanatology, Practice Considerations for Professionals in the Field, and Contextual and Theoretical Considerations. Accompanying the outline is a new commentary on the state o…
Guilt in Bereavement
Thirty-four quantitative and 9 qualitative studies are reviewed to indicate current understanding of the nature and impact of guilt in bereavement. This overview suggests that guilt is especially prevalent among some vulnerable subgroups, and it is associated with maladaptive health outcomes. Being male, longer bereavement time, and good end-of life experience seem to be associated with less guilt feelings. However, definition ambiguity, measurem…
Gender differences in mental health literacy among Chinese-speaking Australians in Melbourne, Australia
Objective: This study attempted to understand gender differences in knowledge of mental illness, preference for professional help, and medications and treatment methods among Australians of Chinese-speaking background. Methods: This study adopted a cluster convenience sampling method in which subjects were taken from the four major areas in cosmopolitan Melbourne where most Chinese people are living. A total of 200 Chinese-speaking Australians pa…
Grief literacy
The compassionate communities movement challenges the notion that death and dying should be housed within clinical and institutional contexts, and works to normalize conversations about death and dying by promoting death literacy and dialogue in public spaces. Community-based practices and conversations about grief remain marginal in this agenda. We aimed to theorize how grief could be better conceptualized and operationalized within the compassi…
The Experience of Chinese Bereaved Persons
This study explores the bereavement process of Chinese persons in Hong Kong, with the focus on how they make meaning of the death as well as how they maintain a bond with the deceased. A review of video- and audiotapes of 52 bereaved persons in bereavement counseling pointed to how these concepts are reflected in key themes that appeared throughout these interviews. The way this bereaved population found meaning in the death was reflected in how …
Social Sharing of Bereavement Experience by Chinese Bereaved Persons in Hong Kong
Contrary to the belief that the Chinese do not share emotionally intense experiences, findings from a cross-sectional study of 292 respondents who lost either a spouse or a parent in the previous 2 years in Hong Kong indicated that only 10% did not share their bereavement experiences with another person. The physical health and emotional state of non-sharers was found to be no different to those who shared. In addition, the Chinese are believed t…
Introduction—When Social Work Meets Disaster
As disasters have become more frequent and more devastating in recent years, social workers have become attuned to the incorporation of disaster work into their practice. Widespread, catastrophic events such as fires, floods, mud slides, sea level rises and earthquakes together with human-induced events such as bombings and terrorist acts have compelled social workers across the globe into the front lines of service responses. It was with this in…
The Role of Hope in Bereavement for Chinese People in Hong Kong
This study examined the relationships between hope and the emotional reactions of bereaved Chinese people in Hong Kong. Three groups--a clinical bereaved sample (n = 140), a general bereaved sample (n = 152), and a non-bereaved comparison sample (n = 144)--were included. Significant differences in 3 hope measures, hope (pathway), hope (agency) and hope (total), were found between the 3 groups. Moderately strong correlations were found between hop…
Influencing factors of nurses’ short-term bereavement reactions after patient death
An online cross-sectional survey was performed among 181 nurses in mainland China who experienced their most recent patient death within the last month. Multivariate linear regressions were used following bivariate analysis to identify influencing factors for their short-term professional bereavement reactions. More intensive reactions were associated with the nurse's fewer experiences of patient death; the nurse's employment in the intensive car…
Can grief be a mental disorder? An online survey on public opinion in mainland China
This study investigates Chinese people's opinions about the diagnosis of grief and the factors associated with their opinions. Among 1041 participants who completed the online survey, over half (56.5%) agreed that grief could be a mental disorder under certain circumstances, such as harm to self or others, functional impairment, and persistent grief. Primary reasons against the diagnosis were that grief is normal and its intensity decreases over …
The body of knowledge in thanatology
The Association for Death Education and Counseling has updated its articulation of the body of knowledge in the field of thanatology. In doing so it has relinquished the use of a matrix format in favor of a more serviceable outline containing three major sections: Arenas of Thanatology, Practice Considerations for Professionals in the Field, and Contextual and Theoretical Considerations. Accompanying the outline is a new commentary on the state o…
The Assessment of Grief Among Hong Kong Chinese
This is a preliminary report of a study that examined the clinical usefulness of the Chinese Grief Reaction Assessment Form (GRAF). The validity, reliability, and factor structure of the form were also explored. We administered the GRAF to 180 bereaved individuals during intake interview for bereavement counseling. The GRAF has obtained good internal Cronbach's alpha reliability of .89 and showed its validity in being able to discriminate between…
Using Triadic Interview to Explore Complex Interactional-Based Phenomena
Many qualitative studies are carried out by interviewing one participant. When understanding the dynamic interactions and consented conclusion of two or more participants is the research focus, single-participant interviews are not adequate as they can only provide a one-sided picture of the phenomenon. Dyadic interviews capture interactions between two participants. However, no reports of triadic interviews in research have been used by research…
The meaning of patient deaths for professional caregivers
The meaning of patient deaths is key to understanding professional bereavement. To validate its construct, we applied partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) to online survey data from 563 Chinese physicians and nurses. Both the personal meaning and professional meaning contribute significantly while not interchangeably to the meaning of patient deaths. In addition to the loss of an acquaintance, the loss of a valuable life, a…
Psychometric Properties of the Chinese Version (C-DAP-R) of the Death Attitude Profile-Revised
The psychometric properties of a Chinese version of the Death Attitude Profile-Revised (DAP-R) were examined with 100 young adult, 100 middleage adult, and 100 older adult Chinese respondents in Hong Kong (N = 300). Three of the five subscales from the original DAP-R including Fear of Death, Death Avoidance, and Escape Acceptance were replicated and had acceptable internal reliabilities (Cronbach's alpha ranged from 0.79 to 0.85); comparison betw…
The Assessment of Grief Among Hong Kong Chinese
This is a preliminary report of a study that examined the clinical usefulness of the Chinese Grief Reaction Assessment Form (GRAF). The validity, reliability, and factor structure of the form were also explored. We administered the GRAF to 180 bereaved individuals during intake interview for bereavement counseling. The GRAF has obtained good internal Cronbach's alpha reliability of .89 and showed its validity in being able to discriminate between…
The Experience of Chinese Bereaved Persons
This study explores the bereavement process of Chinese persons in Hong Kong, with the focus on how they make meaning of the death as well as how they maintain a bond with the deceased. A review of video- and audiotapes of 52 bereaved persons in bereavement counseling pointed to how these concepts are reflected in key themes that appeared throughout these interviews. The way this bereaved population found meaning in the death was reflected in how …
Death Preparation and Anxiety
This study reports the results of a survey on death preparation, death-related beliefs, and death anxiety in a Hong Kong sample. Respondents (N = 285) recruited from the community were asked if they have prepared for themselves a life insurance, a will, and a resting place (e.g. burial site, columbarium, etc.). Questions about their death-related cultural beliefs and anxiety were also asked. Results indicated that respondents who have thought of …
Social Sharing of Bereavement Experience by Chinese Bereaved Persons in Hong Kong
Contrary to the belief that the Chinese do not share emotionally intense experiences, findings from a cross-sectional study of 292 respondents who lost either a spouse or a parent in the previous 2 years in Hong Kong indicated that only 10% did not share their bereavement experiences with another person. The physical health and emotional state of non-sharers was found to be no different to those who shared. In addition, the Chinese are believed t…
Management of Challenges of Conjugal Loss among Chinese Widowers
This study presents an exploration of significant coping strategies for Chinese widowers' healthy adjustment to conjugal loss. The informants, 17 Chinese widowers, were asked to share strategies they have adopted to achieve healthy adjustment to spousal loss. The results reveal that loss-orientation coping, consisting of: 1) emotion-focused coping; 2) social coping; and 3) meaning-focused coping, was the key strategy in dealing with challenges po…
Psychometric Properties of the Chinese Version (C-DAP-R) of the Death Attitude Profile-Revised
The psychometric properties of a Chinese version of the Death Attitude Profile-Revised (DAP-R) were examined with 100 young adult, 100 middleage adult, and 100 older adult Chinese respondents in Hong Kong (N = 300). Three of the five subscales from the original DAP-R including Fear of Death, Death Avoidance, and Escape Acceptance were replicated and had acceptable internal reliabilities (Cronbach's alpha ranged from 0.79 to 0.85); comparison betw…
The Role of Hope in Bereavement for Chinese People in Hong Kong
This study examined the relationships between hope and the emotional reactions of bereaved Chinese people in Hong Kong. Three groups--a clinical bereaved sample (n = 140), a general bereaved sample (n = 152), and a non-bereaved comparison sample (n = 144)--were included. Significant differences in 3 hope measures, hope (pathway), hope (agency) and hope (total), were found between the 3 groups. Moderately strong correlations were found between hop…
Gender differences in mental health literacy among Chinese-speaking Australians in Melbourne, Australia
Objective: This study attempted to understand gender differences in knowledge of mental illness, preference for professional help, and medications and treatment methods among Australians of Chinese-speaking background. Methods: This study adopted a cluster convenience sampling method in which subjects were taken from the four major areas in cosmopolitan Melbourne where most Chinese people are living. A total of 200 Chinese-speaking Australians pa…
Guilt in Bereavement
Thirty-four quantitative and 9 qualitative studies are reviewed to indicate current understanding of the nature and impact of guilt in bereavement. This overview suggests that guilt is especially prevalent among some vulnerable subgroups, and it is associated with maladaptive health outcomes. Being male, longer bereavement time, and good end-of life experience seem to be associated with less guilt feelings. However, definition ambiguity, measurem…
An Exploratory Study on University Students’ Perceptions of Posthumous Organ Donation Base on the Theory of Reasoned Action
In view of the general support for organ donation but low registration rate in Hong Kong, the present research attempted to understand the attitude-behavior inconsistency by identifying the underlying beliefs for organ donation through employing the theory of reasoned action. A qualitative approach using semi-structured focus groups was adopted and 19 students from three universities in Hong Kong participated; 10 constructs were identified: attit…
The body of knowledge in thanatology
The Association for Death Education and Counseling has updated its articulation of the body of knowledge in the field of thanatology. In doing so it has relinquished the use of a matrix format in favor of a more serviceable outline containing three major sections: Arenas of Thanatology, Practice Considerations for Professionals in the Field, and Contextual and Theoretical Considerations. Accompanying the outline is a new commentary on the state o…
A Cultural Sociological Review of Chinese Funeral Rituals
This chapter provides a review of the theoretical underpinnings regarding rituals; a discussion of the significance of Chinese funeral rituals; and, an examination of the dynamics of the current social forces shaping the sacred funeral rituals, with a specific focus on Hong Kong. Despite being grouped under "Chinese" and in the umbrella of the three major religions of China – Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism – specific funeral rituals actually …
Fate control and well-being in Chinese rural people living with HIV
Fate control has been often misconceptualized as a superstitious belief and overlooked in health psychology. It is not known how this cultural belief might impact the well-being of Chinese people living with HIV. This study examined the protective role of fate control for well-being and the potential mediation effect of resilience. Participants in this study were rural patients who contracted HIV via commercial blood donation. In this cross-secti…
Emotional flexibility
The Emotional Flexibility Scale provides a brief, reliable, and valid measure of emotion regulation ability of adolescents faced with disasters. (PsycINFO Database Record
A pilot study to validate measures of the theory of reasoned action for organ donation behavior
The present study aimed at taking the first attempt in validating the measures generated based on the theory of reasoned action (TRA). A total of 211 university students participated in the study, 95 were included in the exploratory factor analysis and 116 were included in the confirmatory factor analysis. The TRA measurements were established with adequate psychometric properties, internal consistency, and construct validity. Findings also sugge…
A Validation Study of the Posthumous Organ Donation Reasoned Action Scale
The posthumous organ donation reasoned action scale (PODRAS) may be the first multidimensional scale measuring individuals' perceptions, which is developed based on the Theory of Reasoned Action and guided by empirical data. This study moves further to validate the scale and examine its psychometric properties. Two hundred and twenty-one university students participated in the study. Results suggested that the scale has a structure with six dimen…
Professional caregivers’ bereavement after patients’ deaths
We conducted a scoping review of quantitative studies on professional caregivers' bereavement after patients' deaths following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines. We found 12 studies involving 1317 professional caregivers that met inclusion criteria. Professional caregivers commonly had moderate, and sometimes long-term, bereavement reactions after patients' death. The evidence of factors affecting profe…
Can grief be a mental disorder? An online survey on public opinion in mainland China
This study investigates Chinese people's opinions about the diagnosis of grief and the factors associated with their opinions. Among 1041 participants who completed the online survey, over half (56.5%) agreed that grief could be a mental disorder under certain circumstances, such as harm to self or others, functional impairment, and persistent grief. Primary reasons against the diagnosis were that grief is normal and its intensity decreases over …
Preliminary Development of a Postmortem Bodily Integrity Concerns Scale Among the University Students in Hong Kong
The idea of keeping a body intact has been a major barrier that hinders people from making decision for posthumous organ donation or making consent for their deceased family member. The present research thus attempted to bridge the knowledge gap by conducting an exploratory study to identify the underlying beliefs, and a preliminary validation study to confirm the scale developed thereof. Nineteen university students participated in 5 semistructu…
Grief literacy
The compassionate communities movement challenges the notion that death and dying should be housed within clinical and institutional contexts, and works to normalize conversations about death and dying by promoting death literacy and dialogue in public spaces. Community-based practices and conversations about grief remain marginal in this agenda. We aimed to theorize how grief could be better conceptualized and operationalized within the compassi…
Self-Determination Competencies, (Dis)Agreement in Decision-Making, and Personal Well-Being of Adults with Mild Intellectual Disabilities in Hong Kong
A positive correlation between self-determination and personal well-being was confirmed in a Chinese population with mild ID. These findings expand the understanding of the types of personal goals and agreement patterns of people with mild ID and yield implications for further research and practices
Determinants of Organ Donation Registration Among University Students in Hong Kong
The present study explored the determinants of registration to facilitate the promotion of posthumous organ donation based on the theory of reasoned actions. A total of 211 university students participated in the study. Logistic regression, multiple regressions, and path analysis were conducted. The logistic regression model correctly predicted nearly 80% of registration status, and a good fit model of registration for posthumous organ donation (…
Bereavement After Patient Deaths Among Chinese Physicians and Nurses
In order to achieve an in-depth understanding of professional caregivers' experiences of bereavement after patient deaths in Mainland China, qualitative description was employed. 24 physicians and nurses from hospitals in Nanjing, China, participated in one-to-one, semi-structured interviews. Thematic analysis was adopted for data analysis. Five themes were generated: the nature of professional bereavement experiences, the meaning of patient deat…
Introduction—When Social Work Meets Disaster
As disasters have become more frequent and more devastating in recent years, social workers have become attuned to the incorporation of disaster work into their practice. Widespread, catastrophic events such as fires, floods, mud slides, sea level rises and earthquakes together with human-induced events such as bombings and terrorist acts have compelled social workers across the globe into the front lines of service responses. It was with this in…
The meaning of patient deaths for professional caregivers
The meaning of patient deaths is key to understanding professional bereavement. To validate its construct, we applied partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) to online survey data from 563 Chinese physicians and nurses. Both the personal meaning and professional meaning contribute significantly while not interchangeably to the meaning of patient deaths. In addition to the loss of an acquaintance, the loss of a valuable life, a…
Psychology (25 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (22 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Clinical Psychology (13 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Clinical Psychology (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (9 works) · Psychiatry (9 works)