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Tax reform : a bloodless revolution
No full textModerators: YAN Xiaohui (Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China) JIA Linzhou (Green Ground Eco-Tech Centre, Beijing, China)
Speaker (60-90 mins): LU Qiyuan (World International Consulting Limited, Hong Kong, China
Book Launch : Fukushima after 10 years (Chinese edition)
No full textSpeakers (5 mins each): LAU Kin Chi (Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China) HUANG Xiaomei (Freelance writer, Hong Kong, China) HE Zhixiong (Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China
Exploring the role of coping mechanisms in the relationship between parenting stress and mental health among adolescent mothers in Zambia
No full textAdolescent motherhood deserves more research attention because it is still highly prevalent, especially in lowand middle-income countries. It costs lives, and it comes at huge physical and mental health costs. Past research in these regions has predominantly focused on adolescent mothers’ physical health with less attention on their mental health.
To examine the roles of coping mechanisms (coping resources and coping styles) in the relationship between parenting stress and mental health of adolescent mothers, the study recruited 571 first time adolescent mothers, aged 13 to 19 years old, M=18.21, SD=0.94 (with babies between 0 to 9 months old, M=3.50, SD=2.80) from Lusaka- Zambia using disproportionate random sampling to participate in a cross-sectional survey. Participants completed measures of parenting stress, meta-parenting profile, resilience, social support, depression, wellbeing, sleep quality, religious coping, rumination, and parental locus of control (α =.70 - .94).
Preliminary results indicate significant relationships between parenting stress and depression (r = .11, p \u3c 0.01), and between parenting stress and wellbeing (r = -.13, p \u3c 0.01). It is also expected that a model fit will be well achieved in Structural Equation Modelling (SEM)
The impact of media multitasking on young people\u27s (digital natives) learning
No full textThe purpose of my research is three-folded. The first aim is to investigate the effects of digital media multitasking on young people’s learning and explore their multitasking behaviours. In this study multitasking is defined as the engagement in multiple tasks aimed at attaining multiple goals simultaneously or switching quickly between several different tasks aimed at attaining multiple goals. The second aim is to explore the media multitasking behaviour among youth and try to examine the extent to which patterns of technology use and media multitasking of today’s students reflect the notion of digital natives, i.e. identify whether people from younger generations (‘digital natives’) are more skilled at multitasking than older adults as it is often claimed. The third aim of this study is to inform educational practice by providing educators with strategies for effective use of digital technologies for teaching and learning
A study of related factors affecting Taiwan high school students’ mental health – enlightenment of high school mental health education
No full textThis study aimed to understand the life and mental health conditions in high school students in Taiwan, to determine whether family function is associated with high school students’ mental health, and to provide suggestions for high school mental health education.
A questionnaire measures the respondents’ basic information, current living conditions, and problems in life, and three scales, Depression-Anxiety-Stress Scale (DASS-21), The Chinese Family Assessment Instrument(C-FAI) and Ego Resilience Scale (ERS), were sent to the students recruited from junior and senior high schools in New Taipei City in Taiwan by using purposive sampling method. Shotgun approach was adopted in this study to identify the distribution of the given data, and to determine the correlation among the factors.
1,200 questionnaires were sent out, 1,010 were returned, and 1,009 are valid. This study confirms that high school students’ mental health was correlated with the quality of family function. The more effective family communication is, the less problem of mental health issue high school students have. However, the more support the parents provide, the higher academic pressure high school students feel. The more frequently high school students experience depression, the more problems of interpersonal disturbance they have.
This study suggests high school teachers to use relevant scales when conducting surveys on the living conditions of students. In addition to establish a database for future research, teachers can help students understand their problems and emotional condition through the scales and families, schools, and communities can provide further support
The relationship between rumination and metacognition: Application of an innovative signal-detection approach
No full textRumination, a stable vulnerability marker of depression, is associated with affective bias towards negative information due to cognitive control deficit. However, whether ruminators are aware of this negative information bias remains unknown. Based on the signal-detection approach, the present study examined metacognition associated with rumination. Specifically, we measured metacognitive sensitivity, the extent to which one’s confidence tracks task performance, using the meta-d’ method. In three directed-forgetting memory experiments, I examined whether trait rumination (Experiment 1) and mood state (Experiments 2 and 3) influenced metacognitive sensitivity. Participants first studied images that were either negative or positive in emotion valence, each cued as either forget or remember. They then performed an old-new discrimination task and simultaneously indicated their confidence rating. In Experiment 1, an interaction between Valence and Rumination was found: High ruminators’ meta-d’ level decreased significantly when attending to positivevalence images. In Experiment 2, participants performed a similar memory task following either sad- or neutralmood induction. An interaction among Valence, Rumination, and Mood was observed: During sad mood, high ruminators’ meta-d’ level for processing positive-valence images became significantly lower relative to low ruminators. In Experiment 3, participants’ memory task was preceded by either a rumination- or distractionfocused task. Similarly, an interaction among Valence, Rumination, and Task indicated lower meta-d’ level when high ruminators attended to positive-valence images after rumination task. These findings suggest that trait and state ruminations are associated with metacognitive processing deficits in positive information. Clinical implications are discussed
