Life Satisfaction, Positive Youth Development, and Problem Behaviour Among Chinese Adolescents in Hong Kong

Sun, Ruoyu; Shek, Daniel T. L.

doi:10.1007/s11205-009-9531-9

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“…Recently, there has been an increase in the rate of mental health problems, such as abuse of psychotropic substances, suicide and school violence, among youths in Hong Kong (Sun and Shek 2010).…”

Section: The Sel Situation In Hong Kongmentioning

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Promoting social emotional learning in Chinese schools: a feasibility study of PATHS implementation in Hong Kong

Kam¹

2011

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This paper describes a pilot study of a reduced version of the PATHS Curriculum, a USdeveloped evidence-based SEL program, among schools in Hong Kong SAR (China). Three hundred and sixteen 12th grade students in three elementary schools participated in the study. A limited number of first grade PATHS lessons were adapted and translated into Chinese. Twelve teachers learned and adopted these lessons in their teaching. Students in these classrooms learned about different emotions and practiced self-control. The intervention lasted four months. After the intervention, students showed improvement in emotion understanding, emotion regulation and prosocial behavior. No change was observed in the level of children's problem behaviors. Over 65% of the teachers reported a high degree of satisfaction and willingness to adopt the intervention. The effects of the intervention varied among schools, with variations in the level of intervention and principal support, but not in the quality of implementation. Discussion is focused on the factors that could shape the adoption and implementation of SEL programs, especially the role of the difference in school systems between Hong Kong and the United States.

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Promoting social emotional learning in Chinese schools: a feasibility study of PATHS implementation in Hong Kong

Kam¹

2011

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“…Sun & Shek, 2010), with specification (Jung & Choi, 2017) that high levels of life satisfaction is viewed as a protective factor against delinquent behaviors among adolescents. Therefore the positive results of present study in the area of increasing life satisfaction among youths with risk for delinquency may provide a preliminary support for the application of the integrated arts therapy as an effective mean for prevention of juvenile offending.…”

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Effects Of Integrated Arts Therapy Intervention In Youngsters At Risk For Delinquency

Kõiv¹,

Hannus²,

Kaudne³

2017

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the potential for an integrated arts therapy intervention to influence youth at risk for delinquent behavior. Toward this goal, we applied a one-group pre-post experimental design to assess the effect of an Integrated Arts Therapy Program on participants' selfreported life satisfaction, self-esteem (global and academic), mood (general and momentary), and emotional and behavioural problems (emotional, conduct, hyperactivity, peer, and prosocial behavior) in a sample of students with risk of delinquency. Teachers identified at risk youngsters and 95 students aged between 8 and 17 participated in 16 different gender-mixed groups for 16 sessions during eight-week program period. Results of within group comparisons indicated positive, statistically significant improvements from pre-to posttest on all of the measures: (1) increased global self-esteem (the Global Negative Self-Evaluations Scale), academic self-esteem (the Perceived Academic Competence Scale), and life satisfaction (the Students' Life Satisfaction Scale); (2) decreased total difficulties with conduct and hyperactivity problems, and improved prosocial behavior (the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire); and (3) improved momentary and general mood over time by intervention. These findings indicated that the multi-modal arts therapy group-based program for students with risk for delinquency may be an effective intervention and can lead to at least short-term positive changes by improving participants' self-esteem, wellbeing and behavioral problems.

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“…12, No. 2;2016 environment. For school domain, 30% of the respondents disagreed to "I look forward to going to school" item but about 90% agreed that they learn a lot at school.…”

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“…12, No. 2;2016 substance abuse and delinquency (Sun & Shek, 2010). Life satisfaction is also a significant predictor of the development of suicidal ideation in adolescents (Park, Koo, & Schepp, 2005).…”

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Adolescents’ Life Satisfaction in Selangor, Malaysia: The Effect of Demographic Differences

Nee¹,

Yaacob²,

Baharudin³

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This present study aims to describe the level of overall and domains-specific life satisfaction and to determine how differences in demographic variables can influence life satisfaction among adolescents in Selangor, Malaysia. The sample of the study consisted of 416 school-going adolescents, aged between 14 to 17 years old, who were selected through multi-stage cluster sampling from 12 secondary schools. The findings showed that adolescents generally reported positive level of life satisfaction. Differences in life satisfaction by age, gender and family structure were compared by t-test analysis. Younger adolescents display higher life satisfaction compared to older adolescents. Males reported higher level of life satisfaction in school domain and lower score in living environment domain compared to females. Respondents who were living in intact family arrangement also reported to have higher life satisfaction than those who were living with other types of family arrangements. In conclusion, cognitive judgment of adolescents' life satisfaction differ with respect to their biological age, gender, and family structure.

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Life Satisfaction, Positive Youth Development, and Problem Behaviour Among Chinese Adolescents in Hong Kong

Cited by 207 publications

References 51 publications

Promoting social emotional learning in Chinese schools: a feasibility study of PATHS implementation in Hong Kong

Promoting social emotional learning in Chinese schools: a feasibility study of PATHS implementation in Hong Kong

Effects Of Integrated Arts Therapy Intervention In Youngsters At Risk For Delinquency

Adolescents’ Life Satisfaction in Selangor, Malaysia: The Effect of Demographic Differences

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