Hsin-Yi Chen
Biographic Data
| ID | 693825 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hsin-Yi Chen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hsin-Yi |
| FAMILY NAME | Chen |
| SIGNATURE | CHEN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4684-7392 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Stay out of the Sun: Exploring African American College Women’s Thoughts on the Dynamics Between Colorism and Sun-related Behavior
Colorism—systematic intragroup discrimination based on skin color—uniquely affects African American women. Using a sequential mixed methods design, this study explored perceptions of colorism and sun-related behavior among African American women in college. Study 1, which included 14 in-depth interviews, revealed perceptions that lighter skin is mostly preferred among African American women and that this preference can influence sun-related behav…
Situating colorism in intercultural contexts: The multifaceted process of acculturation in shaping attitudes towards skin color
Social Workers’ Attitudes on Social Justice in Taiwan
As social justice is an essential social work concept, this study examined the factors that influenced the attitudes of social workers in Taiwan toward social justice through an analysis of Social Justice Scale-TW (SJS-TW) questionnaires conducted on a sample of 276 social workers. It was found that years of work experience, human rights training, and past participation in social protests were important moderating factors of supporting social jus…
Deeper than the surface: Exploring symbolic cultural cues behind skin color among three groups of women of Chinese heritage
Children’s rights in Taiwan: A qualitative study on social workers’ perspectives
The aim of this study was to investigate the perspectives of social workers in Taiwan on children’s rights. Among the 94 social workers who were interviewed, most were familiar with children’s rights terminology. From the results of this study, parental needs and the inability of young children to communicate effectively hindered the balance between protection of and participation by children. To better implement children’s rights, social workers…
Caught between “light skin is beautiful and tanned skin is attractive”: How bicultural socialization shapes attitudes toward skin color aesthetics
Egg White or Sun-Kissed: A Cross-Cultural Exploration of Skin Color and Women’s Leisure Behavior
Social workers’ attitudes toward human rights in a sample from Taiwan
The human rights concept is that everyone is entitled to enjoy those rights inherent to being human, without distinction. However, should human rights be considered a self-evident value for the social work profession? This study was to explore how social workers in Taiwan perceive the human rights concept. Responses from 276 social worker participants were analyzed by using a self-administered questionnaire. This study showed that social workers …
Teaching about Human Rights in a Social Work Undergraduate Curriculum: The Taiwan Experience
This study was designed to investigate the transformation in attitude of social work undergraduate students following the completion of a human rights module near the end of their academic programme in Taiwan. Twenty-five students who enrolled in the ‘Human Rights, Gender and Social Work’ module at a university in central Taiwan were evaluated by means of self-reported change in attitude towards human rights before and after participation in this…
Relationship of Fertility With Intelligence and Education in Taiwan: A Brief Report
This study estimates the effect of dysgenic trends in Taiwan by exploring the relationships among intelligence, education and fertility. Based on a representative adult sample, education and intelligence were negatively correlated with the number of children born. These correlations were stronger for females. The decline of genotypic intelligence was estimated as 0.82 to 1.33 IQ points per generation for the Taiwanese population.
Framing Human Rights and Cultural Diversity Training in Social Work Classrooms—the Case of Female Marriage Immigrants in Taiwan
Immigration from marriage has been on the increase in Taiwan since the 1980s.There are more and more foreign women from Southeast Asian countries that have married Taiwanese men. After foreign spouses arrive in Taiwan, they face difficulties such as spousal abuse and social stigma. We should be aware that social work undergraduates can be culturally insensitive and may harbor unintentional discrimination toward these immigrants. We propose a modu…
Intelligence in Taiwan: Progressive Matrices Means and Sex Differences in Means and Variances for 6- To 17-Year-Olds
Data for Raven's Progressive Matrices are reported for a sample of 6290 6- to 17-year-olds in Taiwan. The Taiwanese obtained a mean IQ of 109.5, in relation to a British mean of 100. There was no difference in mean scores of boys and girls at age 7 years. At age 10 years girls obtained significantly higher scores than boys, and at ages 13 and 16 years boys obtained significantly higher scores than girls. There was no sex difference in variance at…
Egg White or Sun-Kissed: A Cross-Cultural Exploration of Skin Color and Women’s Leisure Behavior
Social workers’ attitudes toward human rights in a sample from Taiwan
The human rights concept is that everyone is entitled to enjoy those rights inherent to being human, without distinction. However, should human rights be considered a self-evident value for the social work profession? This study was to explore how social workers in Taiwan perceive the human rights concept. Responses from 276 social worker participants were analyzed by using a self-administered questionnaire. This study showed that social workers …
Deeper than the surface: Exploring symbolic cultural cues behind skin color among three groups of women of Chinese heritage
Framing Human Rights and Cultural Diversity Training in Social Work Classrooms—the Case of Female Marriage Immigrants in Taiwan
Immigration from marriage has been on the increase in Taiwan since the 1980s.There are more and more foreign women from Southeast Asian countries that have married Taiwanese men. After foreign spouses arrive in Taiwan, they face difficulties such as spousal abuse and social stigma. We should be aware that social work undergraduates can be culturally insensitive and may harbor unintentional discrimination toward these immigrants. We propose a modu…
Situating colorism in intercultural contexts: The multifaceted process of acculturation in shaping attitudes towards skin color
Children’s rights in Taiwan: A qualitative study on social workers’ perspectives
The aim of this study was to investigate the perspectives of social workers in Taiwan on children’s rights. Among the 94 social workers who were interviewed, most were familiar with children’s rights terminology. From the results of this study, parental needs and the inability of young children to communicate effectively hindered the balance between protection of and participation by children. To better implement children’s rights, social workers…
Teaching about Human Rights in a Social Work Undergraduate Curriculum: The Taiwan Experience
This study was designed to investigate the transformation in attitude of social work undergraduate students following the completion of a human rights module near the end of their academic programme in Taiwan. Twenty-five students who enrolled in the ‘Human Rights, Gender and Social Work’ module at a university in central Taiwan were evaluated by means of self-reported change in attitude towards human rights before and after participation in this…
Intelligence in Taiwan: Progressive Matrices Means and Sex Differences in Means and Variances for 6- To 17-Year-Olds
Data for Raven's Progressive Matrices are reported for a sample of 6290 6- to 17-year-olds in Taiwan. The Taiwanese obtained a mean IQ of 109.5, in relation to a British mean of 100. There was no difference in mean scores of boys and girls at age 7 years. At age 10 years girls obtained significantly higher scores than boys, and at ages 13 and 16 years boys obtained significantly higher scores than girls. There was no sex difference in variance at…
Relationship of Fertility With Intelligence and Education in Taiwan: A Brief Report
This study estimates the effect of dysgenic trends in Taiwan by exploring the relationships among intelligence, education and fertility. Based on a representative adult sample, education and intelligence were negatively correlated with the number of children born. These correlations were stronger for females. The decline of genotypic intelligence was estimated as 0.82 to 1.33 IQ points per generation for the Taiwanese population.
Framing Human Rights and Cultural Diversity Training in Social Work Classrooms—the Case of Female Marriage Immigrants in Taiwan
Immigration from marriage has been on the increase in Taiwan since the 1980s.There are more and more foreign women from Southeast Asian countries that have married Taiwanese men. After foreign spouses arrive in Taiwan, they face difficulties such as spousal abuse and social stigma. We should be aware that social work undergraduates can be culturally insensitive and may harbor unintentional discrimination toward these immigrants. We propose a modu…
Teaching about Human Rights in a Social Work Undergraduate Curriculum: The Taiwan Experience
This study was designed to investigate the transformation in attitude of social work undergraduate students following the completion of a human rights module near the end of their academic programme in Taiwan. Twenty-five students who enrolled in the ‘Human Rights, Gender and Social Work’ module at a university in central Taiwan were evaluated by means of self-reported change in attitude towards human rights before and after participation in this…
Egg White or Sun-Kissed: A Cross-Cultural Exploration of Skin Color and Women’s Leisure Behavior
Social workers’ attitudes toward human rights in a sample from Taiwan
The human rights concept is that everyone is entitled to enjoy those rights inherent to being human, without distinction. However, should human rights be considered a self-evident value for the social work profession? This study was to explore how social workers in Taiwan perceive the human rights concept. Responses from 276 social worker participants were analyzed by using a self-administered questionnaire. This study showed that social workers …
Caught between “light skin is beautiful and tanned skin is attractive”: How bicultural socialization shapes attitudes toward skin color aesthetics
Children’s rights in Taiwan: A qualitative study on social workers’ perspectives
The aim of this study was to investigate the perspectives of social workers in Taiwan on children’s rights. Among the 94 social workers who were interviewed, most were familiar with children’s rights terminology. From the results of this study, parental needs and the inability of young children to communicate effectively hindered the balance between protection of and participation by children. To better implement children’s rights, social workers…
Social Workers’ Attitudes on Social Justice in Taiwan
As social justice is an essential social work concept, this study examined the factors that influenced the attitudes of social workers in Taiwan toward social justice through an analysis of Social Justice Scale-TW (SJS-TW) questionnaires conducted on a sample of 276 social workers. It was found that years of work experience, human rights training, and past participation in social protests were important moderating factors of supporting social jus…
Deeper than the surface: Exploring symbolic cultural cues behind skin color among three groups of women of Chinese heritage
Situating colorism in intercultural contexts: The multifaceted process of acculturation in shaping attitudes towards skin color
Stay out of the Sun: Exploring African American College Women’s Thoughts on the Dynamics Between Colorism and Sun-related Behavior
Colorism—systematic intragroup discrimination based on skin color—uniquely affects African American women. Using a sequential mixed methods design, this study explored perceptions of colorism and sun-related behavior among African American women in college. Study 1, which included 14 in-depth interviews, revealed perceptions that lighter skin is mostly preferred among African American women and that this preference can influence sun-related behav…
Psychology (12 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social Work (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Color perception and design (4 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works)