K L Chou
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 98796 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | K L Chou |
| NOMBRES | K L |
| APELLIDO | Chou |
| FIRMA | CHOU K L |
| AFILIACIONES | Education University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3627-9915 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 68 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 303 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 68 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Effects of a closed-loop mindfulness-based program for reducing stress in family caregivers of people with dementia
ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT06880822. Registered on March 2025
Categories of need, welfare stigma, and their combined effect on non-take-up of targeted income support in Hong Kong
While welfare stigma is a unique factor in explaining the non-take-up of targeted income support, the role of different categories of needs in the link between welfare stigma and non-take-up remains less understood. In this study focusing on older adults in Hong Kong, we use multivariate logistic regression analysis based on data from an original cross-sectional household survey to quantify the extent to which the effect of self-perceived welfare…
The Social Psychology of Procedural Justice
To Claim or Not to Claim
This article investigates the unique contribution of specific programme characteristics together with personal stigma, stigmatisation by the public, and claims stigma, to the non-take-up of targeted income support among Hong Kong older adults. Drawing on data from a sample of 3,299 Hong Kong older adults aged 65 or above, we find that between 11-14 per cent of eligible participants did not receive cash transfers from Normal and Higher Old Age Liv…
Depression among older adults before and during the pandemic
Previous studies have documented the average impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on depressive symptoms among the older population. However, discerning specific individuals at a higher risk and developing targeted support based on the significant average effect has proven challenging. In response to this gap, this study explored the influence of personal histories, encompassing pre-existing depression and personal depression trajectories, as well as …
Effect of a single-session mindfulness-based intervention for reducing stress in family caregivers of people with dementia
ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT06346223. Registered on April 3, 2024
Situational appraisal and emotional responses of the public in the social movement
Psychological transformation of youth after engaging in non-radical and radical political activities
Family-Friendly Policies
The need for family-friendly policies to balance work and life demands is growing. Many studies have addressed how family-friendly policies relate to a variety of employees' work attitudes and behavioral outcomes, but not how they (positively or negatively) affect them, especially the affective components of family-friendly policies that provide "felt" support to an employee. To fill this gap, this study adopts a moderated mediating mechanism to …
Meaning Making as a Lifebuoy in Dementia Caregiving
Depressive symptomatology is associated with caregiver burden and poor health outcomes among dementia caregivers. Scholars called for a paradigm shift to focus on positive aspects of caregiving, in particular, meaning making during the caregiving journey. This study draws on the meaning making model and a generation perspective to predict depression among dementia caregivers from two generations, including Baby Boomers who were born between 1946 …
Depression among poor older adults
Collective action in the Anti‐Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement in Hong Kong
The social identity model of collective action (SIMCA) is frequently used to explain collection action. This study conceptualized group identification as identification with militant protestors and tested two versions of the SIMCA model with cross‐sectional data collected toward the end of the anti‐extradition bill movement in Hong Kong. The first model incorporates democratic ideology as the mediator and hypothesizes that instrumental, emotional…
Preferences for private long-term care insurance products in a super-ageing society
Improving Financial Literacy in Secondary School Students
Financial literacy is a multicomponent construct comprising financial knowledge, attitude, behaviors, and well-being. Financial literacy in young people helps them to achieve financial independence and escape from intergenerational poverty. Recent assessments, however, reveal that youth financial literacy is unsatisfactory. Financial education should be provided for students during secondary school as a natural context in which to establish young…
Intergenerational Conflict or Solidarity in Hong Kong? A Survey of Public Attitudes Toward Social Spending
This study aims to investigate age-related differences in social spending preference in an Asian context, drawing on a random survey of more than 1000 adults in Hong Kong in 2013. Contrary to popular belief, older adults in Hong Kong hold a negative view toward welfare spending, especially when it is directed toward the poor population. In contrast, descriptive statistics reveal that younger people tend to support increased spending on welfare as…
The Pathway Toward Radical Political Participation Among Young People in Hong Kong
The Politics of MPF Reform
This article examines public attitudes towards two reform options for the defined-contribution (DC) Mandatory Provident Fund (MPF) scheme in Hong Kong: (i) increasing MPF contributions; or (ii) introducing a universal pension partly funded by switching MPF contributions to the universal pension. Drawing on a phone survey conducted with 975 active contributors to the MPF, we examine whether agreement with these MPF reform options can be explained …
How Nation Building Backfires
An intriguing phenomenon documented within political science research is the association between nation‐building programs and increased subnational intergroup conflicts. Based on data collected in Hong Kong, an epicenter of subnational conflicts in China, this article suggests that nation building may intensify the tension between subnational groups because it helps to spread the belief that groups have fixed inherent characteristics. Specificall…
Financial Literacy Among Hong Kong's Chinese Adolescents
Against today's global backdrop where financial responsibility has been transferred from the government to individuals, financial literacy, as a key component of financial capacity, could be an effective strategy to escape from lifecourse poverty. Compared with young adults, research demonstrates that financial literacy among adolescents is of greater importance. The present study fills the theoretical gap to measure the financial literacy of Hon…
Stay-at-home fathers in Hong Kong
This study examines characteristics of stay-at-home father (SAHF) families in Hong Kong and factors contributing to their increase. Based on two decades of census data (1991–2011), we find father's older (relative) age, lower education relative to their spouse, and lower household income increase the probability of having SAHF arrangements, leading us to believe that some fathers enter SAHF arrangements because of their inability to work or due t…
Long-term care service needs and planning for the future
Long-term care (LTC) planning is important in helping the older people tackle their future needs better. The needs for LTC services represent generational characteristics as they may be different between the current and upcoming cohorts of older adults. However, very few studies have examined the cohort differences in terms of their expected utilisation of LTC services, while understanding the patterns is crucial in helping policy makers prepare …
Poverty, deprivation and life satisfaction among Hong Kong older persons
This investigation examines the association of four measures of poverty (income-based, expenditure-based and asset-based poverty, and material deprivation) with life satisfaction. Perceived life satisfaction was measured among 1,410 older Chinese persons aged 65 and over. Besides life satisfaction and measures of poverty, the study assessed socio-demographic variables, financial strain, health indicators, and social and community resources. Those…
Material Deprivation and Working Poor in Hong Kong
Evaluating the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Hong Kong Welfare Programmes in Reducing Child Poverty
This paper examines the effectiveness and efficiency of welfare programmes that are relevant to child poverty reduction in Hong Kong. We employ data from a cross‐sectional survey of a representative sample of families, conducted in 2015 through face‐to‐face interviews. Our results indicate that all four welfare programmes were inadequate in alleviating child poverty. This was either due to the deep poverty gap to be filled or high rates of exclus…
Targeting, Universalism and Child Poverty in Hong Kong
Self-rated economic condition and the health of elderly persons in Hong Kong
Correlates of Quality of Life in New Migrants to Hong Kong from Mainland China
Explaining attitudes toward immigrants from Mainland China in Hong Kong
The tension between immigrants from Mainland China and Hong Kong locals has intensified in recent years. Using an original telephone survey that interviewed a representative sample of the Hong Kong population, this article evaluates three major explanations—economic self-interest, sociotropic concerns and psychological dispositions—for anti-immigrant sentiments. The findings suggest that negative attitudes toward immigrants are significantly rela…
Trends in Elderly Poverty in Hong Kong
Familial Effect on Child Poverty in Hong Kong Immigrant Families
Trends in Child Poverty in Hong Kong Immigrant Families
Effects of Perceived Discrimination on the Quality of Life Among New Mainland Chinese Immigrants to Hong Kong
Number of Children and Upstream Intergenerational Financial Transfers
The number of children has a ceiling effect on transfers, which calls into question common assumptions about the extent to which the decline in fertility will pose a severe threat to the extent of familial support of older persons over the coming decades
Welcoming Immigrants with Similar Occupational Interests
Recent studies in America and Europe suggest that individual economic self-interest plays little role in explaining individual attitudes towards immigrants. A key piece of evidence for this proposition is that natives do not show particular hostility towards immigrants whose skill levels are similar to their own. We conducted an experimental survey of Hong Kong residents to examine their attitudes towards immigrants from Mainland China. We found …
Working Poor in Hong Kong
Immigration, living arrangement and the poverty risk of older adults in H ong K ong
Using 2011 census data, this study investigated how living arrangement affects disparities in poverty between older adults (aged 65 and older) who migrated to H ong K ong from M ainland C hina and those who were born in H ong K ong. Our sample consisted of 29,987 immigrants and 9,398 natives, all of whom were ethnic C hinese and living in H ong K ong at the time of the census. We found higher poverty rates among older immigrants than among native…
The roles of human capital and social capital in the economic integration of new arrivals from Mainland China to Hong Kong
To Claim or Not to Claim
This article investigates the unique contribution of specific programme characteristics together with personal stigma, stigmatisation by the public, and claims stigma, to the non-take-up of targeted income support among Hong Kong older adults. Drawing on data from a sample of 3,299 Hong Kong older adults aged 65 or above, we find that between 11-14 per cent of eligible participants did not receive cash transfers from Normal and Higher Old Age Liv…
Material Deprivation and Working Poor in Hong Kong
Child Poverty Among Hong Kong Ethnic Minorities
Public Attitudes towards Income Redistribution
The drivers of public support for redistributive policy have stimulated academic debate around the world. The majority of studies use cross‐country surveys conducted in the Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development countries to contribute to the debate on whether self‐interest or social values have more influence on public attitudes towards redistribution. Drawing on a phone survey conducted in 2013, this study advances the discussio…
Exclusionary attitudes toward the allocation of welfare benefits to Chinese immigrants in Hong Kong
Studies on migration often assume that members of the same ethnic category are less likely to develop exclusionary attitudes toward each other. In order to explain why many Hong Kong people exhibit exclusionary attitudes toward granting social rights to Chinese immigrants who share the same ethnic ancestry with them, we conducted a phone survey to examine four important factors: (1) economic threat; (2) social threat; (3) negative stereotypes; an…
How Nation Building Backfires
An intriguing phenomenon documented within political science research is the association between nation‐building programs and increased subnational intergroup conflicts. Based on data collected in Hong Kong, an epicenter of subnational conflicts in China, this article suggests that nation building may intensify the tension between subnational groups because it helps to spread the belief that groups have fixed inherent characteristics. Specificall…
Superimpose Material Deprivation Study on Poverty Old Age People in Hong Kong Study
Perceived retirement savings adequacy in Hong Kong
Using an interdisciplinary model of financial planning, we investigated the factors contributing to perceived adequacy of retirement savings among Hong Kong workers by replicating a previous study of American and Dutch workers. The model was also tested for age differences in the way in which the variables operated within the model. These questions were examined using data from a phone survey conducted with 999 Hong Kong workers in 2012. We exami…
Leisure participation amongst Hong Kong Chinese older adults
Gerontologists have recognised the important influence of leisure activity on the mental and physical health of older adults. To date, however, there have been few studies of the patterns of participation in leisure activity among older adults in Hong Kong. This study examines a large representative sample of Hong Kong older adults and the associations between their socio-economic and health characteristics and their leisure activities. The data …
Poverty, deprivation and life satisfaction among Hong Kong older persons
This investigation examines the association of four measures of poverty (income-based, expenditure-based and asset-based poverty, and material deprivation) with life satisfaction. Perceived life satisfaction was measured among 1,410 older Chinese persons aged 65 and over. Besides life satisfaction and measures of poverty, the study assessed socio-demographic variables, financial strain, health indicators, and social and community resources. Those…
Poverty alleviation, coverage and fiscal sustainability
This article synthesises the characteristics of social pensions across Asia and evaluates the effect of a new social pension in the Hong Kong SAR, the Old Age Living Allowance (OALA), on poverty alleviation, coverage rates and fiscal sustainability. We found that the effectiveness of the OALA in reducing old‐age poverty was limited, although it has led to an increase of retirement pension coverage by 6%. The OALA is projected to face substantial …
Willingness to consider applying for reverse mortgage in Hong Kong Chinese middle-aged homeowners
Intergenerational Conflict or Solidarity in Hong Kong? A Survey of Public Attitudes Toward Social Spending
This study aims to investigate age-related differences in social spending preference in an Asian context, drawing on a random survey of more than 1000 adults in Hong Kong in 2013. Contrary to popular belief, older adults in Hong Kong hold a negative view toward welfare spending, especially when it is directed toward the poor population. In contrast, descriptive statistics reveal that younger people tend to support increased spending on welfare as…
Attitudes Towards Mental Patients in Hong Kong
The purpose of this survey was to understand how the people of Hong Kong perceive mental health, mental illness, mental patients and mental health facilities. In March 1994, a total of 1,043 successful telephone interviews were conducted out of 2,202 valid telephone numbers. The sample was found to be representative of the Hong Kong adult population in terms of sex ratio, age structure, educational achievement and economic status. It was found th…
Attitudes To Mental Patients Among Hong Kong Chinese
A telephone survey was conducted on a representative sample of 1273 Chinese in Hong Kong to examine public attitudes to the mentally ill and mental health rehabilitation facilities. Attitudes were compared with a study using the same measures carried out two years previously. Results indicated that public concern about their mental health and their attitudes to mental patients was decreased and became more negative slightly, respectively. On the …
Assessing Chinese adolescents’ social support
Brief Report the Utilization of Health Care Services and Social Services By Neurotic Patients and Their Service Need
Filial Support Legislation in Hong Kong
Recently, there is controversy in Hong Kong whether the government should enact filial support legislation in Hong Kong so that the burden of caring for elderly dependent people could be shared between the government and the adult children. In this paper, we briefly discussed the theoretical framework for the relationship between family and state welfare and we reviewed how filial support legislation was implemented in other countries and their e…
Self-rated economic condition and the health of elderly persons in Hong Kong
Leisure participation amongst Hong Kong Chinese older adults
Gerontologists have recognised the important influence of leisure activity on the mental and physical health of older adults. To date, however, there have been few studies of the patterns of participation in leisure activity among older adults in Hong Kong. This study examines a large representative sample of Hong Kong older adults and the associations between their socio-economic and health characteristics and their leisure activities. The data …
Factors associated with the use of publicly funded services by Hong Kong Chinese older adults
To Retire or Not to Retire
Over the next thirty years, Hong Kong will have a rapidly ageing population. One possible consequence of this will be a labour shortage, which means that it will be essential to strike a proper balance between the amount of time spent in work and the amount spent in retirement in old age. The balance is determined by the interaction between the aspiration of workers, employers’ attitudes to older workers, as well as the productivity of the labour…
Validity and normative data for thirty‐second chair stand test in elderly community‐dwelling Hong Kong Chinese
It is important to establish valid field measures of lower body strength in the elderly, and to provide representative normative values that are culturally specific in order to help health professionals in the risk assessment of this group. A sample of 1,038 elderly Hong Kong Chinese undertook a 30‐sec chair stand test (30CST), with a subsample of 143 completing isometric measures of maximal hip flexion and knee extension, plus a habitual physica…
Willingness to consider applying for reverse mortgage in Hong Kong Chinese middle-aged homeowners
Economic status of the elderly in Hong Kong
English This article examines the economic status of elderly people in Hong Kong based on data collected by the government. The Hong Kong elderly population is not a homogeneous group, as their economic status is significantly related to their gender, age, marital status, education and employment status. French Se basant sur des données recueillies par le gouvernement, cet article examine le statut économique des personnes âgées à Hong Kong. La p…
Cross-border retirement migration plan in Hong Kong middle-aged adults
The temporal relationship between falls and fear-of-falling among Chinese older primary-care patients in Hong Kong
Although the association between falls and fear-of-falling has been established by previous studies, the temporal ordering of the two is uncertain. Moreover, the common and unique risk factors that contribute to falls and to fear-of-falling have not been investigated in either primary health-care settings or Asian societies. The aims of this study were to examine the temporal sequencing of fear-of-falling and a fall, and to identify the risk fact…
The Prevalence and Clustering of Four Major Lifestyle Risk Factors in Hong Kong Chinese Older Adults
Findings suggest that common lifestyle risk factors cluster among older men, and the clustering of risk factors provides support for multiple-behavior interventions
Disability Trends in Hong Kong Community-Dwelling Chinese Older Adults
In general, public health efforts to prevent ADL limitation should be supported to reduce the demand for long-term care services in the coming decades
Number of Children and Upstream Intergenerational Financial Transfers
The number of children has a ceiling effect on transfers, which calls into question common assumptions about the extent to which the decline in fertility will pose a severe threat to the extent of familial support of older persons over the coming decades
The roles of human capital and social capital in the economic integration of new arrivals from Mainland China to Hong Kong
Interaction Between Pre- and Post-Migration Factors on Depressive Symptoms in New Migrants to Hong Kong from Mainland China
The goal of the current study is to examine the role of poor migration planning as a moderator for the effects of two post-migration factors, namely acculturation stress and quality of life, on symptoms of depression. Using a random sample of 347 Hong Kong new migrants from a 1-year longitudinal study, we used multiple regression analyses to examine both the direct and interaction effects of poorly planned migration, acculturation stress, and qua…
Perceived discrimination and depression among new migrants to Hong Kong
Correlates of Quality of Life in New Migrants to Hong Kong from Mainland China
Correlates of Eating Disorder in Middle-Aged and Older Adults
This study supports the notion that eating disorders in older adults are associated with a number of psychosocial, psychiatric, and medical conditions
Familial Effect on Child Poverty in Hong Kong Immigrant Families
Lifetime Abstention of Sexual Intercourse and Health in Middle-aged and Older Adults
Trends in Child Poverty in Hong Kong Immigrant Families
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