K K Fung
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 705412 |
|---|---|
| NOME | K K Fung |
| PRENOMES | K K |
| SOBRENOME | Fung |
| ASSINATURA | FUNG K K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Hong Kong Baptist University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4529-3479 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 57 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1979 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
A Systematic Review of Approaches to Deconstructing Dominant Body Ideals
The body ideal as an academic concept encompasses a range of desired body descriptions, including body shapes, weight and muscle mass, as well as gender expressions, e.g., makeup, and sex features. Concerning the socially constructed nature of various body ideals, e.g., thinness, by the commercial, media, and state sectors that continue to lead to poor body image and problems of eating disorders, over-consumption among youngsters, the deconstruct…
Lone motherhood in mainland China
A critical discourse analysis of 894 Weibo posts from 2019 to 2023 was hereby conducted to investigate the representation of lone motherhood on Chinese social media using a corpus-assisted approach. Three primary discourses relating to family-centric priorities, experiences of hardship, and narratives of resilience were involved. The findings demonstrate that while traditional challenges of lone motherhood persist, alternative discourses that hig…
A Systematic Review of the Digital Divide Experienced by Migrant Women
Digital divide as an academic term captures the inequality involved in the access and usage of digital devices as well as real-life consequences of the imbalance. Concerning migrant women who suffer from the digital divide, there have been extensive studies focusing on the affordances and benefits of having digital access. The problematic side of digital divide and factors leading to such divide, however, are understudied. Therefore, a systematic…
Preliminary evidence for a selective agency-boosting effect of psychosocial stress
Across 2 studies, explicit and implicit methods are used to explore stress and SoA. • Under stress, temporal binding selectively increases after 700 ms delays. • No statistically significant relationship was found between stress and explicit SoA. • Increased action-effect intervals produce a potential “stress-enabled agency boost” Sense of Agency (SoA) arises from the perception of being in control of one’s own actions and their outcomes. Many co…
Effect of Integrating Body Movement and Deconstruction Approaches on Young Women with Body Ideals-Related Distress
Purpose: This study aims to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention model that integrates body movement and deconstruction approaches for young women with body ideals-related distress. Methods: A quasi-experimental research design was used to compare the changes between the experimental group ( n 1 = 322) and the control group ( n 2 = 78). The experimental group received six group sessions with three time point measurements. Res…
Employing Structural Topic Modeling to Deconstruct Discourses and Trends Relating to Violence Against Women in Hong Kong
Purpose Despite the discourses relating to violence against women (VAW) in Hong Kong being conceptualized, limited empirical research covers the emerging text in online media and the current trends and dynamics of these developing discourses. This study aims to explore the online discourses relating to VAW in Hong Kong while deconstructing the prevailing topics, trends, and the interrelationship between these topics. Methods We employed structura…
Identifying varied policy practices and impact of market-led ideas
This article builds on existing research by examining the policy practices of community social workers who served people affected by urban regeneration in Hong Kong. Based on semi-structured interviews with eighteen practitioners—including frontline workers, team leaders, and service managers with 4 to over 20 years of experience—the study identifies that social workers’ policy practices are often guided solely by market-led ideas, or occasionall…
A systematic review of migrants’ non-employment precarity–conceptualizations by scholars and migrants’ narratives
Precarity is a term capturing the migrants’ situation under globalization and migration-driven uncertainties. Many have attempted to explain the precarity in terms of employment changes, but fewer in terms of non-employment ones. A systematic review is conducted to summarize the conceptualization of migrant precarity manifested in non-employment aspects. Studies ( n = 46) from 2014 to 2024 were selected by searching through social science databas…
The Mediating Effect of Psychological Resilience between Individual Social Capital and Mental Health in the Post-Pandemic Era
In the context of the impact of the post-COVID-19 pandemic on families, this study explores the impact of individual social capital and psychological resilience on the mental health of family caregivers of kindergarten children in mainland China. This study included a sample of 331 family caregivers from Zhaoqing City, Guangdong Province, and the researchers applied the Personal Social Capital Scale (PSCS-16), Connor–Davidson Resilience Scale (CD…
Living in a segregated community? Interaction between families and service organizations supporting people with intellectual disabilities during the Covid-19 pandemic
Individuals with intellectual disabilities who might have been previously placed into segregated institutions now live independently in the community, supported by the necessary community care services. Nevertheless, social inclusion can be deemed successful only if they can positively interact with the various microsystems of the community. The disruption of social service provision due to the COVID-19 pandemic allowed us to evaluate other syste…
Access to Information and Communication Technology, Digital Skills, and Perceived Well-Being among Older Adults in Hong Kong
Population aging is a major concern worldwide. Active aging should be promoted by increasing the social participation of older adults and enabling them to remain involved in the community. Research has demonstrated the utility of digital resources for addressing the needs of older adults, which include networking, entertaining, and seeking health-related information. However, the digital divide among older adults (i.e., the "gray digital divide")…
Working from the ground up
Working from the Ground Up and Participatory Action Research
This article presents a community-based action research project in a low-income neighborhood in Hong Kong that adopted the Working from the Ground Up (WFGU) model. In the context of the neoliberal turn, the WFGU approach reminds researchers and practitioners to begin with the disadvantaged groups’ perceptions of the neighborhood and priorities for changes. The WFGU and action research process involved four phases: observation, reflection, plannin…
Community social work in Hong Kong during Covid-19
In Hong Kong, professional social workers made their presence felt when they delivered a variety of services at the height of the pandemic. Social workers who were working in community development projects or who had adopted community work approaches have become the major service providers when the availability and accessibility of other types of social services have been seriously impeded. This article reports on a qualitative research study con…
A Preliminary Psychometric Investigation of a Chinese Version of the Engaged Teachers Scale (C-ETS)
This study examines the psychometric properties of a Chinese version of the Engaged Teacher Scale (C-ETS). A translated questionnaire with 16 items was administered to a sample of 341 primary and secondary school teachers in Hong Kong. A series of confirmatory factor analyses were performed to assess the construct, convergent, and discriminant validity of the scale in alternative models. Results provide support for a second-order model with teach…
Venturing into the unknown with the use of ICTs in social work education during Covid-19
This paper reports on a case study of Hong Kong based on the authors' participatory observations and analysis of a university delivering qualifying social work programmes during COVID-19. Some background is provided for responses to COVID-19 in Hong Kong, with particular attention paid to the evolving responses of the university under study. The paper then reviews and discusses (i) the strategies deviating from traditional face-to-face meetings t…
Hong Kong under Covid-19
This short article presents the plight of grassroots under the Covid-19 pandemic, which has been in the third wave from mid-July 2020. Like in many other places, the outbreak has caused economic downturn, and intensified stress about health and rising unemployment. The disadvantaged groups are suffering the most, which shows the problem of social inequality in the community. The roles of community social work in Hong Kong are highlighted to show …
Grandparenting in Chinese skipped-generation families
The main aim of this study is to fill a gap in the research on Chinese grandparents who raise their grandchildren in Hong Kong, which has implications for social policy and social welfare services. Grandparenting is embedded in Chinese culture, which emphasizes blood ties and intergenerational relationships and support. However, the meanings ascribed by grandparents who serve as surrogate/substitute parents have been found to be very different to…
Understanding Social Capital in Migrant Women From Mainland China to Hong Kong
This study was based on data from a survey of social capital in a low-income community in Hong Kong. Based on the importance of social capital for successful social adjustment and integration of migrants, this study compared the presence and nature of social capital among female migrants and local people and identified the relationship between socioeconomic status and the characteristics of social capital among migrant women. This large-scale sur…
Financial crisis and the developmental states
Studies taking a mediation perspective have highlighted how the actual impact of economic globalisation is mediated by institutions that include welfare regimes. Some have examined how the welfare systems of E ast A sian developmental states have changed and adapted since the A sian financial crisis of 1997/1998. Using H ong K ong as a case study, this article examines how the developmental state of H ong K ong mediated the impact of the global f…
Community work in Hong Kong
The recent phase of economic globalization has constituted a social context of deteriorating opportunity and increasing risk for disadvantaged communities in Hong Kong. While different studies have shown the ‘revitalization’ of the significance of the community in general and community work service in particular in most developed countries to further the interests of disadvantaged groups, the survival of the community development service in Hong …
Gendering Welfare
Consideration of welfare regimes in Hong Kong has generally neglected gender and care work issues, focusing instead on welfare ideologies relating to production and the market orientation of social policies. In addition, traditional Chinese values place a high priority on motherhood. Drawing on qualitative interviews with lone mothers and social workers, this article considers welfare reform in Hong Kong from the late 1990s and the shift to welfa…
Securitization, the Global Financial Crisis and Residential Capitalisms in an East Asian Context
This paper offers an analysis of the housing impact of the recent financial crisis in an East Asian context, specifically Hong Kong. In doing so, the paper argues that much of the current political economy analysis in this area has been overly focused on mortgage securitization as the centrepiece of liberal housing finance systems. The paper also shows that an understanding of the limited development of mortgage securitization in Hong Kong lies i…
Functions of social work supervision in Shenzhen
Based on the findings of an evaluation study on the first two phases of a cross-the-border supervision service project performed by a Hong Kong non-governmental organization, this paper sheds light on the nature of social work supervision in Shenzhen and the constraints of cross-the-border supervision
Women and community service in beijing—limited support
Functions of social work supervision in Shenzhen
Based on the findings of an evaluation study on the first two phases of a cross-the-border supervision service project performed by a Hong Kong non-governmental organization, this paper sheds light on the nature of social work supervision in Shenzhen and the constraints of cross-the-border supervision
Institutional Mediation, The Hong Kong Residential Housing Market and the Asian Financial Crisis
While there has been considerable commentary and analysis on the origins and aftermath of the Asian Financial Crisis there have been few studies which focus on the housing markets of the countries most directly affected. This is surprising given the importance of housing investment in many Asian economies and that over-inflated real estate was deeply implicated in the crisis. This paper explores the particular dynamics of the Hong Kong housing ma…
Financial crisis and the developmental states
Studies taking a mediation perspective have highlighted how the actual impact of economic globalisation is mediated by institutions that include welfare regimes. Some have examined how the welfare systems of E ast A sian developmental states have changed and adapted since the A sian financial crisis of 1997/1998. Using H ong K ong as a case study, this article examines how the developmental state of H ong K ong mediated the impact of the global f…
Working from the Ground Up and Participatory Action Research
This article presents a community-based action research project in a low-income neighborhood in Hong Kong that adopted the Working from the Ground Up (WFGU) model. In the context of the neoliberal turn, the WFGU approach reminds researchers and practitioners to begin with the disadvantaged groups’ perceptions of the neighborhood and priorities for changes. The WFGU and action research process involved four phases: observation, reflection, plannin…
Hong Kong under Covid-19
This short article presents the plight of grassroots under the Covid-19 pandemic, which has been in the third wave from mid-July 2020. Like in many other places, the outbreak has caused economic downturn, and intensified stress about health and rising unemployment. The disadvantaged groups are suffering the most, which shows the problem of social inequality in the community. The roles of community social work in Hong Kong are highlighted to show …
Grandparenting in Chinese skipped-generation families
The main aim of this study is to fill a gap in the research on Chinese grandparents who raise their grandchildren in Hong Kong, which has implications for social policy and social welfare services. Grandparenting is embedded in Chinese culture, which emphasizes blood ties and intergenerational relationships and support. However, the meanings ascribed by grandparents who serve as surrogate/substitute parents have been found to be very different to…
Gendering Welfare
Consideration of welfare regimes in Hong Kong has generally neglected gender and care work issues, focusing instead on welfare ideologies relating to production and the market orientation of social policies. In addition, traditional Chinese values place a high priority on motherhood. Drawing on qualitative interviews with lone mothers and social workers, this article considers welfare reform in Hong Kong from the late 1990s and the shift to welfa…
Securitization, the Global Financial Crisis and Residential Capitalisms in an East Asian Context
This paper offers an analysis of the housing impact of the recent financial crisis in an East Asian context, specifically Hong Kong. In doing so, the paper argues that much of the current political economy analysis in this area has been overly focused on mortgage securitization as the centrepiece of liberal housing finance systems. The paper also shows that an understanding of the limited development of mortgage securitization in Hong Kong lies i…
Dying for Money
A major cause of spiralling health-care cost is aggressive treatment of major illnesses by health-care providers The insured patient also demands such an expensive course of action because he pays only a small portion of the cost and is not given a more attractive alternative. If the patient is offered compensation to give up his de facto right to aggressive treatment, insurance premium can be reduced. Physician-assisted death with benefit conver…
The Mediating Effect of Psychological Resilience between Individual Social Capital and Mental Health in the Post-Pandemic Era
In the context of the impact of the post-COVID-19 pandemic on families, this study explores the impact of individual social capital and psychological resilience on the mental health of family caregivers of kindergarten children in mainland China. This study included a sample of 331 family caregivers from Zhaoqing City, Guangdong Province, and the researchers applied the Personal Social Capital Scale (PSCS-16), Connor–Davidson Resilience Scale (CD…
Venturing into the unknown with the use of ICTs in social work education during Covid-19
This paper reports on a case study of Hong Kong based on the authors' participatory observations and analysis of a university delivering qualifying social work programmes during COVID-19. Some background is provided for responses to COVID-19 in Hong Kong, with particular attention paid to the evolving responses of the university under study. The paper then reviews and discusses (i) the strategies deviating from traditional face-to-face meetings t…
Understanding Social Capital in Migrant Women From Mainland China to Hong Kong
This study was based on data from a survey of social capital in a low-income community in Hong Kong. Based on the importance of social capital for successful social adjustment and integration of migrants, this study compared the presence and nature of social capital among female migrants and local people and identified the relationship between socioeconomic status and the characteristics of social capital among migrant women. This large-scale sur…
Decentralizing Tragic Choices
Pooling health risks through insurance has led to cost explosion because centralized third-party payers cannot deny even cost ineffective treatment for life-and-death cases without arousing a sense of tragedy and inviting legal challenges. If the same total health budget is distributed equally on a per capita basis, funding decisions for treatment can then be voted on in a decentralized manner. Because unfunded treatment would be a result of majo…
Surplus Seeking and Rent Seeking Through Back-Door Deals in Mainland China Price Control and Central Planning Fix Prices Below Market Clearance, Creating a Contrived Surplus
When the selling price is set below the market-clearing level through government price control, the price gap represents a contrived surplus transferred from the producer to the buyer. But, due to incomplete assignment of property rights to this contrived surplus and/or high enforcement costs, contrived surplus is often a non exclusive income subject to competitive capture. Exchange of favors between buyers and sellers to gain preferential access…
On romantic love?An analysis of open system economic behavior
Benefits and costs of confidential information
This article concerns confidentiality of information in social systems at the levels of the group, organization, society, and supranational system. It analyses the benefits and costs of confidentiality in terms of actual and potential Pareto optimality. A systems perspective based on the ecological concepts of successional and climax communities is used to analyze both the power and limit of confidential information as a single purpose instrument…
Current Economic Problems in China
Surplus Seeking and Rent Seeking Through Back-Door Deals in Mainland China Price Control and Central Planning Fix Prices Below Market Clearance, Creating a Contrived Surplus
When the selling price is set below the market-clearing level through government price control, the price gap represents a contrived surplus transferred from the producer to the buyer. But, due to incomplete assignment of property rights to this contrived surplus and/or high enforcement costs, contrived surplus is often a non exclusive income subject to competitive capture. Exchange of favors between buyers and sellers to gain preferential access…
Dying for Money
A major cause of spiralling health-care cost is aggressive treatment of major illnesses by health-care providers The insured patient also demands such an expensive course of action because he pays only a small portion of the cost and is not given a more attractive alternative. If the patient is offered compensation to give up his de facto right to aggressive treatment, insurance premium can be reduced. Physician-assisted death with benefit conver…
How many children? – Fixing total annual births as a population control policy
Decentralizing Tragic Choices
Pooling health risks through insurance has led to cost explosion because centralized third-party payers cannot deny even cost ineffective treatment for life-and-death cases without arousing a sense of tragedy and inviting legal challenges. If the same total health budget is distributed equally on a per capita basis, funding decisions for treatment can then be voted on in a decentralized manner. Because unfunded treatment would be a result of majo…
Implementation Problems in the Development of Urban Community Services in the People's Republic of China
To review the ten year implementation of the community service policy of the People's Republic of China, community service implementers and academics located in Beijing were interviewed. By employing implementation theories as a framework of analysis, a number of implementation problems are identified. In terms of policy characteristics and the structuring of implementation, this case shows that the objectives are not specific enough. The decentr…
Institutional Mediation, The Hong Kong Residential Housing Market and the Asian Financial Crisis
While there has been considerable commentary and analysis on the origins and aftermath of the Asian Financial Crisis there have been few studies which focus on the housing markets of the countries most directly affected. This is surprising given the importance of housing investment in many Asian economies and that over-inflated real estate was deeply implicated in the crisis. This paper explores the particular dynamics of the Hong Kong housing ma…
Women and community service in beijing—limited support
Functions of social work supervision in Shenzhen
Based on the findings of an evaluation study on the first two phases of a cross-the-border supervision service project performed by a Hong Kong non-governmental organization, this paper sheds light on the nature of social work supervision in Shenzhen and the constraints of cross-the-border supervision
Community work in Hong Kong
The recent phase of economic globalization has constituted a social context of deteriorating opportunity and increasing risk for disadvantaged communities in Hong Kong. While different studies have shown the ‘revitalization’ of the significance of the community in general and community work service in particular in most developed countries to further the interests of disadvantaged groups, the survival of the community development service in Hong …
Gendering Welfare
Consideration of welfare regimes in Hong Kong has generally neglected gender and care work issues, focusing instead on welfare ideologies relating to production and the market orientation of social policies. In addition, traditional Chinese values place a high priority on motherhood. Drawing on qualitative interviews with lone mothers and social workers, this article considers welfare reform in Hong Kong from the late 1990s and the shift to welfa…
Securitization, the Global Financial Crisis and Residential Capitalisms in an East Asian Context
This paper offers an analysis of the housing impact of the recent financial crisis in an East Asian context, specifically Hong Kong. In doing so, the paper argues that much of the current political economy analysis in this area has been overly focused on mortgage securitization as the centrepiece of liberal housing finance systems. The paper also shows that an understanding of the limited development of mortgage securitization in Hong Kong lies i…
Financial crisis and the developmental states
Studies taking a mediation perspective have highlighted how the actual impact of economic globalisation is mediated by institutions that include welfare regimes. Some have examined how the welfare systems of E ast A sian developmental states have changed and adapted since the A sian financial crisis of 1997/1998. Using H ong K ong as a case study, this article examines how the developmental state of H ong K ong mediated the impact of the global f…
Understanding Social Capital in Migrant Women From Mainland China to Hong Kong
This study was based on data from a survey of social capital in a low-income community in Hong Kong. Based on the importance of social capital for successful social adjustment and integration of migrants, this study compared the presence and nature of social capital among female migrants and local people and identified the relationship between socioeconomic status and the characteristics of social capital among migrant women. This large-scale sur…
Grandparenting in Chinese skipped-generation families
The main aim of this study is to fill a gap in the research on Chinese grandparents who raise their grandchildren in Hong Kong, which has implications for social policy and social welfare services. Grandparenting is embedded in Chinese culture, which emphasizes blood ties and intergenerational relationships and support. However, the meanings ascribed by grandparents who serve as surrogate/substitute parents have been found to be very different to…
A Preliminary Psychometric Investigation of a Chinese Version of the Engaged Teachers Scale (C-ETS)
This study examines the psychometric properties of a Chinese version of the Engaged Teacher Scale (C-ETS). A translated questionnaire with 16 items was administered to a sample of 341 primary and secondary school teachers in Hong Kong. A series of confirmatory factor analyses were performed to assess the construct, convergent, and discriminant validity of the scale in alternative models. Results provide support for a second-order model with teach…
Venturing into the unknown with the use of ICTs in social work education during Covid-19
This paper reports on a case study of Hong Kong based on the authors' participatory observations and analysis of a university delivering qualifying social work programmes during COVID-19. Some background is provided for responses to COVID-19 in Hong Kong, with particular attention paid to the evolving responses of the university under study. The paper then reviews and discusses (i) the strategies deviating from traditional face-to-face meetings t…
Hong Kong under Covid-19
This short article presents the plight of grassroots under the Covid-19 pandemic, which has been in the third wave from mid-July 2020. Like in many other places, the outbreak has caused economic downturn, and intensified stress about health and rising unemployment. The disadvantaged groups are suffering the most, which shows the problem of social inequality in the community. The roles of community social work in Hong Kong are highlighted to show …
Community social work in Hong Kong during Covid-19
In Hong Kong, professional social workers made their presence felt when they delivered a variety of services at the height of the pandemic. Social workers who were working in community development projects or who had adopted community work approaches have become the major service providers when the availability and accessibility of other types of social services have been seriously impeded. This article reports on a qualitative research study con…
Living in a segregated community? Interaction between families and service organizations supporting people with intellectual disabilities during the Covid-19 pandemic
Individuals with intellectual disabilities who might have been previously placed into segregated institutions now live independently in the community, supported by the necessary community care services. Nevertheless, social inclusion can be deemed successful only if they can positively interact with the various microsystems of the community. The disruption of social service provision due to the COVID-19 pandemic allowed us to evaluate other syste…
Access to Information and Communication Technology, Digital Skills, and Perceived Well-Being among Older Adults in Hong Kong
Population aging is a major concern worldwide. Active aging should be promoted by increasing the social participation of older adults and enabling them to remain involved in the community. Research has demonstrated the utility of digital resources for addressing the needs of older adults, which include networking, entertaining, and seeking health-related information. However, the digital divide among older adults (i.e., the "gray digital divide")…
Working from the ground up
Working from the Ground Up and Participatory Action Research
This article presents a community-based action research project in a low-income neighborhood in Hong Kong that adopted the Working from the Ground Up (WFGU) model. In the context of the neoliberal turn, the WFGU approach reminds researchers and practitioners to begin with the disadvantaged groups’ perceptions of the neighborhood and priorities for changes. The WFGU and action research process involved four phases: observation, reflection, plannin…
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