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Law, 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)
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Chan, Chitat; Ting, Wai-Fong – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2012
This study explores whether the deficit approach to understanding youth, which has been widely critiqued in contemporary youth studies, could still be a dominant paradigm in an emerging curriculum which emphasises multiple-perspective thinking. The analysis compares the representations of youth in selected reference sources at different levels of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Negative Attitudes, Models
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Byrne, Barbara M.; Stewart, Sunita M.; Kennard, Betsy D.; Lee, Peter W. H. – International Journal of Testing, 2007
Working within the framework of a confirmatory factor analytic (CFA) model, this study adds another dimension to construct validation of both the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II; Beck, Steer, & Brown, 1996) and a Chinese version of the BDI-II (C-BDI-II; Chinese Behavioral Sciences Society, 2000). Specifically, we tested for measurement…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Negative Attitudes, Adolescents, Depression (Psychology)