Hau-lin Tam
Biographic Data
| ID | 6024928 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hau-lin Tam |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hau-lin |
| FAMILY NAME | Tam |
| SIGNATURE | TAM H |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6792-9725 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Guided Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on Reducing Perceived Stress—A Randomized Controlled Trial
Objective: This study investigated the effectiveness of guided internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy (iCBT) for people with mental health problems. Methods: Participants ( n = 57) recruited from collaborating mental health and counseling centers in Hong Kong and Shenzhen were randomly assigned to a control group receiving standardized educational information about COVID-19 or an intervention group receiving the guided iCBT with eight online…
The mediating effect of psychological strengths and resilience on enhancing youth employability through social entrepreneurship education and training
There is not much we can do’
Research on the challenges child protection social workers (CPSWs) face has increased remarkably in developed nations with the goal of finding sustainable solutions. There is a significant number of vulnerable children in sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA), yet little is documented and known about the role of CPSWs in supporting the children, and the challenges they face that must be addressed to ensure effective and efficient service delivery. The study p…
Life routinization and clandestine photo-taking behavior among young people in Hong Kong
With a growing number of reported offenses, clandestine photo-taking has become an increasingly noticeable phenomenon in Hong Kong and other parts of the world. This behavior is usually seen as a selfish act as it invades people’s privacy and sexual autonomy to satisfy one’s own sex drive. However, the present study provides new and varying insights into the problem. This is the qualitative section of an impact assessment including three focus gr…
Quasi-Experimental Study Comparing CBT, MBCT, Activity-Based Supportive Counselling for Hong Kong Delinquent Youth
Purpose: This study compared Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), and Activity-based Supportive Counselling (treatment-as-usual; TAU) for reducing delinquency, psychological risk factors, mental health symptoms, and improving the quality of life among at-risk youths in Hong Kong outreaching social services. Methods: In this quasi-experimental study, non-custodial youths with delinquency and mental health…
An Inquiry into the Relationship between Drug Users’ Psychological Situations and Their Drug-Taking Behaviour
In view of the research gap whereby few studies have investigated the inner psychological situations underlying continuous drug use, this study used the Soulmate Scale to investigate the relationship between soulmate experience and drug-taking behaviour. Overall, 276 participants took part in this study. Results showed that soulmate experience was negatively related to drug-taking behaviour, which means that being psychologically attached to drug…
Efficacy of Low-Intensity Cognitive Behavior Intervention for Chinese Delinquent Youth
Purpose: Recent literature has pointed out the seriously unmet treatment needs of delinquent youth with mental health problems in Hong Kong. This study pioneers to systematically develop and evaluate the effectiveness of a structured low-intensity cognitive behavioral intervention (LICBI) to concurrently address mental health issues and delinquent behaviors among Hong Kong Chinese youth. Method: A quasi-experimental controlled design was adopted …
The significance of emotional intelligence to students’ learning motivation and academic achievement
Drugs as Soulmates
Substance users use substances to tackle psychological stress, frustrations, poor social support and poor-quality relationships. Such experience resembles seeking a soulmate for receiving comfort, a sense of security and satisfaction to relieve feelings of loneliness. Against this backdrop, the study aims to develop a Soulmate Scale to measure substance use and loneliness. Data were collected from 507 drug abusers between 18-71 years of age who w…
Gender stereotyping and STEM education
Intrinsic Motivation and Psychological Connectedness to Drug Abuse and Rehabilitation
This study adopts the perspective of the Self-Determination Theory to look at the psychological experience of drug users and their decisions to take drugs or not, with particular emphasis on the concept of relatedness. To achieve this objective, a qualitative methodology was employed to explore the experiences of these drug users regarding how they take drugs and/or relapse. Theory-driven thematic analysis was employed to identify themes related …
Qualitative analysis of rural-to-urban migrant Chinese mothers’ perceived outcomes and experiences in a parent support and education programme with an existential–narrative approach
This paper discusses the qualitative findings of practice research on rural-to-urban migrant Chinese mothers’ perceived outcomes and experiences in a parent support and education programme. Informed by an existential–narrative approach to parent education, four intervention groups were provided to 56 migrant mothers recruited from a social service centre in China. Of them, 28 mothers were purposively selected and invited to join four post-interve…
The moderating effects of positive psychological strengths on the relationship between tiger parenting and child anxiety
Parenting Discrepancy and Child Development in Chinese Context
Although parent–child discrepant perception of the family has been increasingly noted in the west, pertinent research is limited in Chinese societies. In addition, prior pertinent studies predominantly treated parent–child discrepant effects as independent of the general and aggregate family context, which are in fact inseparable. Furthermore, these studies tended to either look at the positive side of child outcomes or those negative ones. The p…
The moderating effects of positive psychological strengths on the relationship between parental anxiety and child depression
The relationship between childhood physical abuse and suicidal ideation among Chinese university students
Using expressive arts in relapse prevention of young psychotropic substance abusers in Hong Kong
Work Values, Perceived Job Rewards and Life Outcomes of the New Generation of Chinese Migrant Labourers' in Guangzhou, China
This study aimed to explore the direction of social work practices by examining how work values and job rewards were associated with job and life satisfaction among the new generation of Chinese migrant labourers who work in Guangzhou, China. Based on a survey design of 775 migrant labourers of two generational cohorts randomly selected from two toy factories, the results indicate that the younger participants' instrumental work values were negat…
The ‘Person-Centred’ Rhetoric in Socialist China
Person-centred rhetoric has proliferated in the political sphere and in the newly created social work community in socialist China since the last decade, as social work was affirmed by the Chinese party-state as an alternative strategy for easing social discontent arising from ground-breaking economic reform. Based on a study of the conception of social work in Mainland China, this paper discusses the extent to which the ‘person-centred’ rhetoric…
Sense of meaningfulness, sources of meaning, and self-evaluation of economically disadvantaged youth in Hong Kong
Generational Differences in Work Values, Perceived Job Rewards, and Job Satisfaction of Chinese Female Migrant Workers
A qualitative study of the lived experiences of young Chinese females in condom use negotiations
Based on a qualitative study of young Chinese females' lived experiences of condom use negotiations, this paper discusses how a gender and power perspective provides a new frame of reference in which to examine the shaping of young women's perception and decision-making regarding contraception. The recurrent themes of the narratives collected through individual interviews with 10 adolescent pregnant females living in Hong Kong indicate that their…
A discourse and practice gap in working with youth-at-disadvantage in the outreach social work service in Hong Kong
Delinquent behaviour as a kind of body politics” against adult regulations — Young people's discourses in Hong Kong
Generational Differences in Work Values, Perceived Job Rewards, and Job Satisfaction of Chinese Female Migrant Workers
The moderating effects of positive psychological strengths on the relationship between tiger parenting and child anxiety
Sense of meaningfulness, sources of meaning, and self-evaluation of economically disadvantaged youth in Hong Kong
A discourse and practice gap in working with youth-at-disadvantage in the outreach social work service in Hong Kong
Delinquent behaviour as a kind of body politics” against adult regulations — Young people's discourses in Hong Kong
Efficacy of Low-Intensity Cognitive Behavior Intervention for Chinese Delinquent Youth
Purpose: Recent literature has pointed out the seriously unmet treatment needs of delinquent youth with mental health problems in Hong Kong. This study pioneers to systematically develop and evaluate the effectiveness of a structured low-intensity cognitive behavioral intervention (LICBI) to concurrently address mental health issues and delinquent behaviors among Hong Kong Chinese youth. Method: A quasi-experimental controlled design was adopted …
The significance of emotional intelligence to students’ learning motivation and academic achievement
The moderating effects of positive psychological strengths on the relationship between parental anxiety and child depression
The relationship between childhood physical abuse and suicidal ideation among Chinese university students
The ‘Person-Centred’ Rhetoric in Socialist China
Person-centred rhetoric has proliferated in the political sphere and in the newly created social work community in socialist China since the last decade, as social work was affirmed by the Chinese party-state as an alternative strategy for easing social discontent arising from ground-breaking economic reform. Based on a study of the conception of social work in Mainland China, this paper discusses the extent to which the ‘person-centred’ rhetoric…
Gender stereotyping and STEM education
Qualitative analysis of rural-to-urban migrant Chinese mothers’ perceived outcomes and experiences in a parent support and education programme with an existential–narrative approach
This paper discusses the qualitative findings of practice research on rural-to-urban migrant Chinese mothers’ perceived outcomes and experiences in a parent support and education programme. Informed by an existential–narrative approach to parent education, four intervention groups were provided to 56 migrant mothers recruited from a social service centre in China. Of them, 28 mothers were purposively selected and invited to join four post-interve…
Using expressive arts in relapse prevention of young psychotropic substance abusers in Hong Kong
Work Values, Perceived Job Rewards and Life Outcomes of the New Generation of Chinese Migrant Labourers' in Guangzhou, China
This study aimed to explore the direction of social work practices by examining how work values and job rewards were associated with job and life satisfaction among the new generation of Chinese migrant labourers who work in Guangzhou, China. Based on a survey design of 775 migrant labourers of two generational cohorts randomly selected from two toy factories, the results indicate that the younger participants' instrumental work values were negat…
Delinquent behaviour as a kind of body politics” against adult regulations — Young people's discourses in Hong Kong
A qualitative study of the lived experiences of young Chinese females in condom use negotiations
Based on a qualitative study of young Chinese females' lived experiences of condom use negotiations, this paper discusses how a gender and power perspective provides a new frame of reference in which to examine the shaping of young women's perception and decision-making regarding contraception. The recurrent themes of the narratives collected through individual interviews with 10 adolescent pregnant females living in Hong Kong indicate that their…
A discourse and practice gap in working with youth-at-disadvantage in the outreach social work service in Hong Kong
Generational Differences in Work Values, Perceived Job Rewards, and Job Satisfaction of Chinese Female Migrant Workers
Sense of meaningfulness, sources of meaning, and self-evaluation of economically disadvantaged youth in Hong Kong
The ‘Person-Centred’ Rhetoric in Socialist China
Person-centred rhetoric has proliferated in the political sphere and in the newly created social work community in socialist China since the last decade, as social work was affirmed by the Chinese party-state as an alternative strategy for easing social discontent arising from ground-breaking economic reform. Based on a study of the conception of social work in Mainland China, this paper discusses the extent to which the ‘person-centred’ rhetoric…
Using expressive arts in relapse prevention of young psychotropic substance abusers in Hong Kong
Work Values, Perceived Job Rewards and Life Outcomes of the New Generation of Chinese Migrant Labourers' in Guangzhou, China
This study aimed to explore the direction of social work practices by examining how work values and job rewards were associated with job and life satisfaction among the new generation of Chinese migrant labourers who work in Guangzhou, China. Based on a survey design of 775 migrant labourers of two generational cohorts randomly selected from two toy factories, the results indicate that the younger participants' instrumental work values were negat…
The moderating effects of positive psychological strengths on the relationship between parental anxiety and child depression
The relationship between childhood physical abuse and suicidal ideation among Chinese university students
Qualitative analysis of rural-to-urban migrant Chinese mothers’ perceived outcomes and experiences in a parent support and education programme with an existential–narrative approach
This paper discusses the qualitative findings of practice research on rural-to-urban migrant Chinese mothers’ perceived outcomes and experiences in a parent support and education programme. Informed by an existential–narrative approach to parent education, four intervention groups were provided to 56 migrant mothers recruited from a social service centre in China. Of them, 28 mothers were purposively selected and invited to join four post-interve…
The moderating effects of positive psychological strengths on the relationship between tiger parenting and child anxiety
Parenting Discrepancy and Child Development in Chinese Context
Although parent–child discrepant perception of the family has been increasingly noted in the west, pertinent research is limited in Chinese societies. In addition, prior pertinent studies predominantly treated parent–child discrepant effects as independent of the general and aggregate family context, which are in fact inseparable. Furthermore, these studies tended to either look at the positive side of child outcomes or those negative ones. The p…
Intrinsic Motivation and Psychological Connectedness to Drug Abuse and Rehabilitation
This study adopts the perspective of the Self-Determination Theory to look at the psychological experience of drug users and their decisions to take drugs or not, with particular emphasis on the concept of relatedness. To achieve this objective, a qualitative methodology was employed to explore the experiences of these drug users regarding how they take drugs and/or relapse. Theory-driven thematic analysis was employed to identify themes related …
Drugs as Soulmates
Substance users use substances to tackle psychological stress, frustrations, poor social support and poor-quality relationships. Such experience resembles seeking a soulmate for receiving comfort, a sense of security and satisfaction to relieve feelings of loneliness. Against this backdrop, the study aims to develop a Soulmate Scale to measure substance use and loneliness. Data were collected from 507 drug abusers between 18-71 years of age who w…
Gender stereotyping and STEM education
An Inquiry into the Relationship between Drug Users’ Psychological Situations and Their Drug-Taking Behaviour
In view of the research gap whereby few studies have investigated the inner psychological situations underlying continuous drug use, this study used the Soulmate Scale to investigate the relationship between soulmate experience and drug-taking behaviour. Overall, 276 participants took part in this study. Results showed that soulmate experience was negatively related to drug-taking behaviour, which means that being psychologically attached to drug…
Efficacy of Low-Intensity Cognitive Behavior Intervention for Chinese Delinquent Youth
Purpose: Recent literature has pointed out the seriously unmet treatment needs of delinquent youth with mental health problems in Hong Kong. This study pioneers to systematically develop and evaluate the effectiveness of a structured low-intensity cognitive behavioral intervention (LICBI) to concurrently address mental health issues and delinquent behaviors among Hong Kong Chinese youth. Method: A quasi-experimental controlled design was adopted …
The significance of emotional intelligence to students’ learning motivation and academic achievement
Life routinization and clandestine photo-taking behavior among young people in Hong Kong
With a growing number of reported offenses, clandestine photo-taking has become an increasingly noticeable phenomenon in Hong Kong and other parts of the world. This behavior is usually seen as a selfish act as it invades people’s privacy and sexual autonomy to satisfy one’s own sex drive. However, the present study provides new and varying insights into the problem. This is the qualitative section of an impact assessment including three focus gr…
Quasi-Experimental Study Comparing CBT, MBCT, Activity-Based Supportive Counselling for Hong Kong Delinquent Youth
Purpose: This study compared Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), and Activity-based Supportive Counselling (treatment-as-usual; TAU) for reducing delinquency, psychological risk factors, mental health symptoms, and improving the quality of life among at-risk youths in Hong Kong outreaching social services. Methods: In this quasi-experimental study, non-custodial youths with delinquency and mental health…
There is not much we can do’
Research on the challenges child protection social workers (CPSWs) face has increased remarkably in developed nations with the goal of finding sustainable solutions. There is a significant number of vulnerable children in sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA), yet little is documented and known about the role of CPSWs in supporting the children, and the challenges they face that must be addressed to ensure effective and efficient service delivery. The study p…
The mediating effect of psychological strengths and resilience on enhancing youth employability through social entrepreneurship education and training
Guided Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on Reducing Perceived Stress—A Randomized Controlled Trial
Objective: This study investigated the effectiveness of guided internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy (iCBT) for people with mental health problems. Methods: Participants ( n = 57) recruited from collaborating mental health and counseling centers in Hong Kong and Shenzhen were randomly assigned to a control group receiving standardized educational information about COVID-19 or an intervention group receiving the guided iCBT with eight online…
Psychology (21 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Political science (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Psychiatry (9 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (6 works)