This dissertation, "Perceived Parental Style, Cognitions and Adolescent Anxiety and Depression in Hong Kong" by Robby, Lai Wing-yee, 黎詠儀, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Adolescent Anxiety and Depression in Hong Kong 1 Abstract The present study examined the relationships between perceived parental style and symptoms of depression and anxiety among adolescents in Hong Kong, and tested whether these relations were mediated by cognitive style. It was hypothesized that negative cognitive style would mediate the relationship between perceived parental style with characteristics of low care and over control and depressive and anxiety symptoms among adolescents. Participants consisted of a community sample of 297 Chinese adolescents aged 12-16 years. They completed a set of self-report measures assessing their perception of parenting style, cognitions relating to depressive and anxious thoughts, and their current depressive and anxiety symptoms. Multiple regression analyses were performed, and the results provided support for the mediating effect of cognitive style on the relationship between perceived parental style and depressive and anxiety symptoms among adolescents in Hong Kong. Results also showed evidence of cognitive content-specificity that thoughts on personal failure were predictive for depressive symptoms and thoughts on social threat were predictive for anxiety symptoms in adolescents. DOI: 10.5353/th_b3710125 Subjects: Adolescent psychology Depression in adolescence

This study offers the results of quantitative research investigating the impact of perceived academic support from parents, teachers and peers on students' academic achievement, using a sample group from a secondary school in Hong Kong as a case study. This work should appeal to scholars interested in education and Asian studies. quantitative study testing the hypothesis that Hong Kong students' self-perceived academic support is related to their achievement. Structural equation modeling analyses revealed that the students' perceived levels of parental, teacher, and peer support were all indirectly related to their academic achievement mediated by their own perceived academic engagement. In addition, both perceived parental support and perceived teacher support were also directly related to academic achievement, demonstrating that student achievement was a combined outcome of both direct and indirect effects of perceived support from parents and teachers. contribution to student achievement. Perceived peer support had the smallest, nonetheless significant, indirect relationship to academic achievement. This study also revealed important gender differences as well as grade-level differences in the relationships of perceived academic support from parents, teachers, and peers to academic achievement directly and indirectly through perceived academic engagement.

The first edition of The Human Quest for Meaning was a major publication on the empirical research of meaning in life and its vital role in well-being, resilience, and psychotherapy. This new edition continues that quest and seeks to answer the questions, what is the meaning of life? How do we explain what constitutes meaningful relationships, work, and living? The answers, as the eminent scholars and practitioners who contributed to this text find, are neither simple nor straightforward. While seeking to clarify subjective vs. objective meaning in 21 new and 7 revised chapters, the authors also address the differences in cultural contexts, and identify 8 different sources of meaning, as well as at least 6 different stages in the process of the search for meaning. They also address different perspectives, including positive psychology, self-determination, integrative, narrative, and relational perspectives, to ensure that readers obtain the most thorough information possible. Mental health practitioners will find the numerous meaning-centered interventions, such as the PURE and ABCDE methods, highly useful in their own work with facilitating healing and personal growth in their clients. The Human Quest for Meaning represents a bold new vision for the future of meaning-oriented research and applications. No one seeking to truly understand the human condition should be without it.

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.

This dissertation, "Predictive Value of Peer Relations, Perceived Parenting Styles and Parental-adolescent Conflicts for Self-esteem Development in Early Adolescence" by Lai-sheung, Alice, Law, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: DOI: 10.5353/th_b2978981 Subjects: Self-esteem in adolescence Parent and teenager