Chau-Kiu Cheung
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674412 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chau-Kiu Cheung |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chau-Kiu |
| FAMILY NAME | Cheung |
| SIGNATURE | CHEUNG C |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of Hong Kong |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 55 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 184 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 55 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Effectiveness of Lessons Attended in a Voluntarily Shortened Strengthening Families Program
The Strengthening Families Program has a sizable implementation cost, which raises the need to evaluate its efficiency with a lower dosage or fewer sessions. Notably, this Program allows parents and children to attend fewer lessons than those offered voluntarily. The efficiency, largely uncharted, is the focus of the present study to examine the effectiveness of a Voluntarily Shortened Strengthening Families Program and its dosage, as embedded in…
Scale development and validation of explorer qualities among primary school students in a Vuca world
In today’s VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous) world, it is vital to nurture explorer qualities, including courage, learning, appreciation, and perseverance, in students from an early stage of education. The present study aimed to develop a holistic Explorer Qualities Scale (EQS) to measure these qualities in primary school students, a topic rarely investigated in prior research. The sample consisted of 475 students in Grades 4–6 a…
Art-based career and life development intervention for non-engaged youth: A quasi-experimental outcome study
In this study, we evaluate We.CLAP, an innovative program for non-engaged youth (NEY) that integrates art-based activities with the Youth Development Intervention Framework (YDIF) to enhance NEY’s career and life development (CLD). Using a pretest–posttest quasi-experimental design, we compared changes in Career and Life Development Hope (CLDH) scale scores and transitional statuses between NEY in We.CLAP (intervention group, N = 181) and NEY not…
Strengthening Adaptive Leadership for Organizational Resilience in Hong Kong
Purpose This study evaluates the Jockey Club InnoPower Social Welfare Fellowship Program, designed to strengthen adaptive leadership among Hong Kong's social welfare practitioners who face high turnover and organizational instability. Method : A randomized waitlist control trial (23 training, 39 control) was conducted. Quantitative effects on sense of community, leadership, self-efficacy, adaptive capacity, and innovation were analyzed using Baye…
Homosexual/Bisexual Men's HIV or Sexually Transmitted Infection and Their Heterosexual Wives' Remarriage in China
An emerging social issue engrossing research involves heterosexual wives of homosexual/bisexual men (tongqi in Chinese). These wives often marry without knowing their husbands' homosexuality. When realizing their husbands' HIV or sexually transmitted infection, the wives are likely to substitute for their husbands by remarrying. Meanwhile, homosexual husbands are likely to substitute for their remarrying wives and contract HIV or sexually transmi…
Covid-19 Pandemic and Positive Ageing
Given the havoc of the worldwide coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on the older population, this article outlines a positive ageing framework for understanding and assuaging the havoc. Positive ageing follows the dual ageing ethics of living positively for self (maintaining health and functional independence) and for the betterment of others (other individuals and society at large). However, it suffers from the pandemic because the pan…
Career interventions and social well-being among non-engaged youth: Examining the mediating effects of career competency
Although it is widely acknowledged that non-engaged youth (NEY) face different disadvantages in their school-to-work transitions, less attention has been paid to examining the impact of career interventions on NEY’s career competency and social well-being. In our study, using data collected in the [email protected] community intervention project, we systematically investigated the effects of six career interventions—developing interest, awareness…
Trust in mutual aid group members, self-management of chronic illness, and well-being among young patients with chronic illness in Hong Kong
While trust has been widely identified as a vital protective factor for individuals’ well-being, less attention has been paid to the particularized trust of mutual aid group members and its impact on the self-management and well-being of young patients with chronic illness (PWCIs). The present study aims to explore the effect of trust in mutual aid group members on young PWCIs’ well-being and the mediating role of self-management in such an assoc…
Intrinsic motivation of rural adolescents in China: How individuation influences
Dead End of the Rainbow: How Environmental and Spatial Factors Create a Necropolis for Gay Sex Workers in China
In China, the correlation between environmental space and drug use by gay male sex workers remains an under-researched public health concern. Drugs are commonly used to enhance sexual performance as well as provide feelings of euphoria but they also increase the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV. The spatial and environmental factors that create synergies between drug consumption and sex work are explored through qualitative data ob…
Development and validation of the chronic illness self-management (Cism) scale: Data from a young patient sample in Hong Kong
Using Grounded Theory to Understand a Cutting-Edge Issue: Effects of Integrative Tactics on Chinese Gay Men's and Lesbians' Social Well-Being
This study aims to demonstrate how grounded theory can be used to explore and analyze negotiation processes between self-identified gay men and lesbians and their parents. For a majority of Chinese gay men and lesbians, marriage proves to be the primary concern that drives negotiations with parents. Extant research documents the precarious consequences of gay men's and lesbians' social well-being yielded by these negotiations, which primarily emp…
Emerging Adulthood in Hong Kong: Social Forces and Civic Engagement
How emerging adults, broadly referring to those aged from 18 to 29 years old, fare in civic engagement, as compared with other adults is the focus of the present work. The work takes civic engagement to comprise prosociality in civil society, sustaining social institutions, and challenging institutions. Delineating a theoretical framework based on voluntaristic theory, the work expects to find differences in civic engagement due to the voluntaris…
Work motivation of unemployed youths: Moderating effects of financial dependence on parents
Sustaining Social Trust and Volunteer Role Identity Reciprocally over Time in Pre-adult, Adult, and Older Volunteers
Social services often organize volunteer work to achieve social well-being, such as building volunteer trust in various people. Meanwhile, a vital goal for the organizing is the development of volunteer identity, such that volunteers identify themselves with volunteering. Volunteer identity is supposed to maintain reciprocal effects with social trust. Moreover, the individual's volunteer identity and social trust are supposed to be responsive to …
Resources and Norms as Conditions for Well-Being in Hong Kong
Four- and ten-month lagged effects of individual counseling on the prosocial behavior of young people
Political-Economic Coalition among Entrepreneurs, Professionals, and Cadres in Guangdong, China
As entrepreneurs, professionals, and cadres constitute the middle tier in China, they exhibit extravagance, gifting, and the pursuit of privileges. Particularly, privileges are likely to stem from political-economic coalition within the middle tier. The coalition is also likely to favor the preservation of the political structure. All these features of the middle tier need substantiation with qualitative data. The study gleaned the data from pers…
Feeling Close to Fellow Citizens in Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand
Parent–child relationships, friendship networks, and developmental outcomes of economically disadvantaged youth in Hong Kong
Social inclusion of the older population in response to the 2008 financial tsunami in Hong Kong
Social inclusion of the older population in employment, housing, social protection and other livelihood aspects was predicted to suffer because of the financial tsunami in Hong Kong in 2008. An expected mitigating factor of the impact on social inclusion was social cohesion, which is the focus of the present study. A total of 1,352 Hong Kong Chinese adults were surveyed in 2009. The results show that social cohesion is perceived in Hong Kong to h…
Sustaining Resilience Through Local Connectedness Among Sojourn Students
Sojourn students’ humor styles as buffers to achieve resilience
Filtered Life Satisfaction and Its Socioeconomic Determinants in Hong Kong
Social Mitigation of the Impact of Urban Renewal on Residents' Morale
The erosion of filial piety by modernisation in Chinese cities
Whether filial piety or financial support to older parents is eroded or maintained through societal modernisation is an unresolved issue in China and a matter of widespread concern. Whereas structural-functionalist theories predict erosion, alternative views suggest that modernisation reduces filial piety only minimally or conditionally. One possible condition that resists the modernisation effect is education. The impacts of modernisation and it…
Neighborhood homogeneity and cohesion in sustainable community development
Parent–child relationships, friendship networks, and developmental outcomes of economically disadvantaged youth in Hong Kong
Sustaining Resilience Through Local Connectedness Among Sojourn Students
Meta-analysis of relationships between religiosity and constructive and destructive behaviors among adolescents
Children's Resilience-Related Beliefs as a Predictor of Positive Child Development in the Face of Adversities: Implications for Interventions to Enhance Children's Quality of Life
Discriminatory attitudes to people with intellectual disability or mental health difficulty
The integration of people with intellectual disability and mental health difficulty in the community is an issue in Hong Kong because it has encountered public resistance. Understanding the public’s discrimination against them is of theoretical and practical concern. This survey of 822 residents in Hong Kong examined associations of the public’s personal interaction, education, age and sex with its discriminatory attitudes
Job referral in China: The advantages of strong ties
There is evidence for the importance of strong ties in job referral among Chinese working people. The principle of reciprocity in exchange theory has been used as an explanation for this. According to the theory, a job seeker who has more resources is more appealing to a matchmaker, who is then more likely to refer the job seeker to a more rewarding job. A strong tie acts to enhance the expectation of reciprocity from the referred person. This st…
Predictors of the Likelihood of Delinquency: A Study of Marginal Youth in Hong Kong, China
Different theories offer different factors, each of which partially explain delinquency in young people. An integrated framework incorporating these theories would provide a more complete explanation. Theories that need to be built into such a framework include social control, social learning, strain, and cognitive development theories. Data were collected from 229 marginal youth recruited through outreaching social work teams in Hong Kong. The r…
Social Studies and Ideological Beliefs in Mainland China and Hong Kong
Coupling Social Solidarity and Social Harmony in Hong Kong
Relating social welfare to life satisfaction in the postmodern era of Hong Kong
Rational or demoralized responses to work restructuring in Hong Kong
Owing to the paucity of data demonstrating workers’ reactions to work restructuring, the study examines possible reactions in terms of job performance, attendance at training, and voicing of discontent. It predicts the effects of work restructuring and background characteristics with reference to the exit-voice-loyalty model and demoralization theory. A telephone survey of a random sample of households collected data from 1176 workers in Hong Kon…
Gender differences in participation and earnings in Hong Kong
Sustaining Social Trust and Volunteer Role Identity Reciprocally over Time in Pre-adult, Adult, and Older Volunteers
Social services often organize volunteer work to achieve social well-being, such as building volunteer trust in various people. Meanwhile, a vital goal for the organizing is the development of volunteer identity, such that volunteers identify themselves with volunteering. Volunteer identity is supposed to maintain reciprocal effects with social trust. Moreover, the individual's volunteer identity and social trust are supposed to be responsive to …
Ways that Social Change Predicts Personal Quality of Life
Dead End of the Rainbow: How Environmental and Spatial Factors Create a Necropolis for Gay Sex Workers in China
In China, the correlation between environmental space and drug use by gay male sex workers remains an under-researched public health concern. Drugs are commonly used to enhance sexual performance as well as provide feelings of euphoria but they also increase the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV. The spatial and environmental factors that create synergies between drug consumption and sex work are explored through qualitative data ob…
Resources and Norms as Conditions for Well-Being in Hong Kong
Feeling Close to Fellow Citizens in Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand
Social Mitigation of the Impact of Urban Renewal on Residents' Morale
Resources mitigating the impediment of discrimination to the acculturation success of students migrated to Hong Kong
Retrospective and prospective evaluations of environmental quality under urban renewal as determinants of residents' subjective quality of life
A Cross-Cultural Study of Moral Stage Structure in Hong Kong Chinese, English, and Americans
The hierarchical structure of Kohlberg's stages of moral judgment development was tested by conducting unidimensional unfolding on the stage scores generated by the rating responses to Rest's Defining Issues Test. The sample consisted of 620 Chinese subjects in Hong Kong, 100 English subjects in London, and 353 American subjects in the United States. The results supported the hierarchical structure, provided that a reduced Stage 4 score was const…
Intrinsic motivation of rural adolescents in China: How individuation influences
Development and validation of the chronic illness self-management (Cism) scale: Data from a young patient sample in Hong Kong
A Cross-Cultural Study of Moral Stage Structure in Hong Kong Chinese, English, and Americans
The hierarchical structure of Kohlberg's stages of moral judgment development was tested by conducting unidimensional unfolding on the stage scores generated by the rating responses to Rest's Defining Issues Test. The sample consisted of 620 Chinese subjects in Hong Kong, 100 English subjects in London, and 353 American subjects in the United States. The results supported the hierarchical structure, provided that a reduced Stage 4 score was const…
Impacts of Social Pressure and Social Support on Distress Among Single Parents in China
A sample of 301 single parents in Guangzhou, China enabled a study of relationships between distress on one hand and social pressure and social support on the other. Confirmatory factor analysis showed that social pressure and social support, including emotional support and instrumental support, were only weakly correlated. They were shown to have equal contribution to distress, which included depression and anxiety. Distress was positively relat…
Social Studies and Ideological Beliefs in Mainland China and Hong Kong
Social Studies and Ideological Beliefs in Mainland China and Hong Kong
Participation in Youth Center Activities: A Sequential Specificity Approach
Youth centers both develop youths' sense of citizenship and their social integration and discourage their delinquency. These centers, numerous in Hong Kong, provide essential social services for youths. Promoting youths' continuous participation in youth centers is, therefore, a recurrent issue in Hong Kong. A model-the sequential specificity model-appears to be useful in addressing this goal. This model differentiates the sequence of participati…
Validating an American Scale in Hong Kong: The Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D)
The construct validity of a Chinese-language version of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D; Radloff, 1977) was tested on a sample of 138 Hong Kong Chinese married couples. Confirmatory factor analysis identified 2 factors: (a) depressive symptom factors and (b) interpersonal problem factors. Those factors attained convergent, discriminant, and structural validity when evaluated against social desirability. The CES-D al…
Impacts of Class on Hong Kong Peoplés Well-Being
Whereas class theory and research have offered evidence showing the significant effect of class on the individual's well-being, some researchers think that class has no impact on people in modem society because of reduced inequality in education and profession. In such a modern society as Hong Kong, further arguments suggest that people have vague images of class. This controversy may arise because of the failure to operationalize class. To amend…
Discriminatory attitudes to people with intellectual disability or mental health difficulty
The integration of people with intellectual disability and mental health difficulty in the community is an issue in Hong Kong because it has encountered public resistance. Understanding the public’s discrimination against them is of theoretical and practical concern. This survey of 822 residents in Hong Kong examined associations of the public’s personal interaction, education, age and sex with its discriminatory attitudes
Service Role Commitment Among Participants in Centers For Children and Youth
Promoting youths' commitment to a service role to serve the community is a developmental goal of both psychological and political significance. Children and youth (C and Y) centers in Hong Kong shoulder this developmental goal. To amass more thorough evidence, this study analyzed data from 1068 participants in these centers, drawn from a representative sample of high school students in Hong Kong. Results of regression analysis showed that, among …
China's youth policy formulation and youth participation
Gender differences in participation and earnings in Hong Kong
Underachievement and Attributions Among Students Attending Schools Stratified by Student Ability
Rational or demoralized responses to work restructuring in Hong Kong
Owing to the paucity of data demonstrating workers’ reactions to work restructuring, the study examines possible reactions in terms of job performance, attendance at training, and voicing of discontent. It predicts the effects of work restructuring and background characteristics with reference to the exit-voice-loyalty model and demoralization theory. A telephone survey of a random sample of households collected data from 1176 workers in Hong Kon…
Factors Underlying Junior High School Students' Seeking Help from Social Services
Adolescents with emotional, interpersonal and even academic problems can benefit from using social services. However, these adolescents are unlikely to seek help from social services, thus creating issues in service underutilization. Supposedly, these adolescents may not find social services to be useful or socially desirable. How these perceptions impede adolescents' help-seeking intention is the focus of the present study, which collected data …
Predictors of the Likelihood of Delinquency: A Study of Marginal Youth in Hong Kong, China
Different theories offer different factors, each of which partially explain delinquency in young people. An integrated framework incorporating these theories would provide a more complete explanation. Theories that need to be built into such a framework include social control, social learning, strain, and cognitive development theories. Data were collected from 229 marginal youth recruited through outreaching social work teams in Hong Kong. The r…
Job referral in China: The advantages of strong ties
There is evidence for the importance of strong ties in job referral among Chinese working people. The principle of reciprocity in exchange theory has been used as an explanation for this. According to the theory, a job seeker who has more resources is more appealing to a matchmaker, who is then more likely to refer the job seeker to a more rewarding job. A strong tie acts to enhance the expectation of reciprocity from the referred person. This st…
Retrospective and prospective evaluations of environmental quality under urban renewal as determinants of residents' subjective quality of life
Relating social welfare to life satisfaction in the postmodern era of Hong Kong
Resources mitigating the impediment of discrimination to the acculturation success of students migrated to Hong Kong
The erosion of filial piety by modernisation in Chinese cities
Whether filial piety or financial support to older parents is eroded or maintained through societal modernisation is an unresolved issue in China and a matter of widespread concern. Whereas structural-functionalist theories predict erosion, alternative views suggest that modernisation reduces filial piety only minimally or conditionally. One possible condition that resists the modernisation effect is education. The impacts of modernisation and it…
Gender differential in deviant friends' influence on children's academic self-esteem
Training to raise unemployed youth's work commitment in Tianjin
Children's Resilience-Related Beliefs as a Predictor of Positive Child Development in the Face of Adversities: Implications for Interventions to Enhance Children's Quality of Life
Ways that Social Change Predicts Personal Quality of Life
Neighborhood homogeneity and cohesion in sustainable community development
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