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Direct linkLaw, Ben M. F.; Shek, Daniel T. L. – Social Indicators Research, 2011
Participation in volunteer service is an indicator of quality of life. This study attempts to validate the Beliefs Against Volunteering Scale (BAV), an assessment of the negative beliefs about volunteerism among Chinese adolescents in Hong Kong. The BAV was administered to 5,946 Chinese adolescents. The BAV and its subscales were found to be…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Validity, Adolescents, Measures (Individuals)
Shek, Daniel T. L. – Social Indicators Research, 2010
Asking clients to document their perceived quality of life during and after intervention is a popular approach employed by helping professionals to evaluate intervention programs. In the Project Positive Adolescent Training through Holistic Social Programmes (P.A.T.H.S.), students participating in the Experimental Implementation Phase and Full…
Descriptors: Intervention, Quality of Life, Adolescents, Diaries
Chua, Hoi-wai; Wong, Anthony K. W.; Shek, Daniel T. L. – Social Indicators Research, 2010
Surviving the aftermaths of the Asian Financial Crisis and SARS in 2003, Hong Kong's economy has re-gained its momentum and its economic growth has been quite remarkable too in recent few years. Nevertheless, as reflected by the Social Development Index (SDI), economic growth in Hong Kong does not seem to have benefited the people of the city at…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Social Planning, Quality of Life, Social Indicators
Lai Kwok, Sylvia Y. C.; Shek, Daniel T. L. – Social Indicators Research, 2010
Based on the family ecological model, personal (hopelessness, social problem solving, emotional competence) and family (parent-adolescent communication, family functioning) quality of life measures related to adolescent suicidal ideation were examined in 5,557 Secondary 1 to Secondary 4 students in Hong Kong. Results showed that suicidal ideation…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Mothers, Quality of Life, Suicide
Shek, Daniel T. L.; Lee, T. Y. – Social Indicators Research, 2007
Chinese secondary school students (N = 2758) responded to measures of perceived family life quality (parenting quality and parent-child relational quality) and emotional quality of life (hopelessness, mastery, life satisfaction and self-esteem). Parenting quality included different aspects of parental behavioral control (parental knowledge,…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Life Satisfaction, Family Life, Economically Disadvantaged
Peer reviewedSiu, Andrew M. H.; Shek, Daniel T. L. – Social Indicators Research, 2005
This study evaluated the dimensionality of the construct of social problem solving and examined the relationships between social problem solving and empathy, emotional well-being and family well-being in a sample of secondary school students in Hong Kong (N = 1462). The participants completed measures of social problem solving (the 25-item short…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Measures (Individuals), Social Problems, Secondary School Students
