Full Description
This book documents the findings of a 3-year longitudinal study on the quality of family life, personal well-being and risk behavior in Chinese adolescents in Hong Kong. It presents the profiles of quality of family life (family functioning, parental behavioral control, parental psychological control and parent-child relational qualities); personal well-being (positive youth development and life satisfaction measures) and adolescent risk behavior (substance abuse, delinquency, self-harm and suicidal behavior and behavioral intentions to engage in risk behavior) in different adolescent populations across time. It also examines theoretical issues concerning the interrelationships between family quality of life, psychological well-being and risk behavior in adolescents. Practically speaking, the findings can help youth workers appreciate the importance of family quality of life and positive youth development in shaping the personal well-being and risk behavior in Chinese adolescents in Hong Kong.
Contents
Chapter 1: Family Quality of Life, Personal Well-Being, and Risk Behavior in Early Adolescents in Hong Kong: Related Phenomena and Research Gaps.- Chapter 2: A Longitudinal Study of the Personal Well-Being and Family Quality of Life among Chinese Adolescents in Hong Kong.- Chapter 3: Positive Youth Development in Junior Secondary School Students: Do gender and time matter?.- Chapter 4: Parental Behavioral Control, Parental Psychological Control and Parent-Child Relational Qualities: Relationships to Chinese Adolescent Risk Behavior.- Chapter 5: Perceived Family Quality of Life, School Competence and Academic Adjustment amongst Early Adolescents in Hong Kong.- Chapter 6: Subjective Well-being of Early Adolescents in Hong Kong.- Chapter 7: Development of Delinquent Behavior in Early Adolescents in Hong Kong.- Chapter 8: Substance Abuse in Junior Secondary School Students in Hong Kong.- Chapter 9: A Longitudinal Study on Deliberate Self-Harm and Suicidal Behaviors among Chinese Adolescents.- Chapter 10: Compensated Dating and Juvenile Prostitution in Early Adolescents in Hong Kong.- Chapter 11: Intention to Gamble Amongst Junior Secondary School Students In Hong Kong: Changes and Predictors.- Chapter 12: Promotion of Positive Youth Development and Family Quality of Life in Chinese Adolescents.
