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This book addresses the sustainability of happiness and well-being
in Chinese societies. It starts by introducing the various
conceptions of well-being, particularly in the Chinese
sociocultural context. The book then proceeds with the examination
of the sustainability of well-being by scrutinizing the effects of
sociocultural, contextual, and personal factors on well-being. The
contextual factors are the aggregates or averages of personal
factors at the contextual levels of the regions and colleges in
Mainland China, its special administrative region, and Taiwan.
These factors cover personality traits, strengths, orientations,
beliefs, values, and idolizing. By bringing together empirical
studies and theoretical perspectives applied to Chinese societies,
this book offers researchers in social science and humanities a
valuable reference work on happiness and well-being in Chinese
societies.
Examining creativity in Chinese societies from both a personal and
contextual standpoint, this ground-breaking book offers readers a
unique insight into the Chinese mind. It provides a review of the
nature, origins, and consequences of creativity, deriving from
empirical evidence in the Chinese context. Specifically, the book
unravels the conceptualization of creativity and its relationships
with various demographic and dispositional factors in Chinese
societies. The book proceeds to give readers an understanding of
how creativity maintains reciprocal relationships with various
forms of well-being. The content of the book brings together
empirical evidence and theory grounded on Chinese societies to
offer researchers and students a unique realistic view of the
nature of creativity there. This book will be a must read for any
researcher or practitioner interested in this fascinating topic.
This book addresses the sustainability of happiness and well-being
in Chinese societies. It starts by introducing the various
conceptions of well-being, particularly in the Chinese
sociocultural context. The book then proceeds with the examination
of the sustainability of well-being by scrutinizing the effects of
sociocultural, contextual, and personal factors on well-being. The
contextual factors are the aggregates or averages of personal
factors at the contextual levels of the regions and colleges in
Mainland China, its special administrative region, and Taiwan.
These factors cover personality traits, strengths, orientations,
beliefs, values, and idolizing. By bringing together empirical
studies and theoretical perspectives applied to Chinese societies,
this book offers researchers in social science and humanities a
valuable reference work on happiness and well-being in Chinese
societies.
Examining creativity in Chinese societies from both a personal and
contextual standpoint, this ground-breaking book offers readers a
unique insight into the Chinese mind. It provides a review of the
nature, origins, and consequences of creativity, deriving from
empirical evidence in the Chinese context. Specifically, the book
unravels the conceptualization of creativity and its relationships
with various demographic and dispositional factors in Chinese
societies. The book proceeds to give readers an understanding of
how creativity maintains reciprocal relationships with various
forms of well-being. The content of the book brings together
empirical evidence and theory grounded on Chinese societies to
offer researchers and students a unique realistic view of the
nature of creativity there. This book will be a must read for any
researcher or practitioner interested in this fascinating topic.
How emerging adults, broadly referring to those aged from 18 to 29
years old, fare in civic engagement, as compared with other adults
is the focus of the present work. The work takes civic engagement
to comprise prosociality in civil society, sustaining social
institutions, and challenging institutions. Delineating a
theoretical framework based on voluntaristic theory, the work
expects to find differences in civic engagement due to the
voluntaristic mechanisms of power realization, utilitarian
optimization, normative conformity, and idealistic consistency
maintenance in the emerging adult, as compared with the other.
Using survey data from 25,878 Chinese adults in Hong Kong, the work
illustrates that the emerging adult is higher than is the other in
challenging social institutions, notably in terms radicalism and
occupying protest. Moreover, the emerging adult is less prosocial
in terms in community participation. Meanwhile, the emerging adult
is not consistently different from the other in sustaining social
institutions. The findings are crucial, given the control various
background characteristics, including age, education, marriage, and
employment. These findings are therefore useful for illustrating
social forces postulated in voluntaristic theory for explaining
civic engagement.
How emerging adults, broadly referring to those aged from 18 to 29
years old, fare in civic engagement, as compared with other adults
is the focus of the present work. The work takes civic engagement
to comprise prosociality in civil society, sustaining social
institutions, and challenging institutions. Delineating a
theoretical framework based on voluntaristic theory, the work
expects to find differences in civic engagement due to the
voluntaristic mechanisms of power realization, utilitarian
optimization, normative conformity, and idealistic consistency
maintenance in the emerging adult, as compared with the other.
Using survey data from 25,878 Chinese adults in Hong Kong, the work
illustrates that the emerging adult is higher than is the other in
challenging social institutions, notably in terms radicalism and
occupying protest. Moreover, the emerging adult is less prosocial
in terms in community participation. Meanwhile, the emerging adult
is not consistently different from the other in sustaining social
institutions. The findings are crucial, given the control various
background characteristics, including age, education, marriage, and
employment. These findings are therefore useful for illustrating
social forces postulated in voluntaristic theory for explaining
civic engagement.
This book introduces psychosocial studies of idol worship in
Chinese societies. It reviews how idol worship is perceived in
Chinese culture, history, and philosophy as well as how it differs
from the concept of celebrity worship that is more dominant in
Western literature. Using a pioneering hexagonal model of idol
worship, this book explains how idol worship is affected by various
demographic and dispositional variables as well as the cognitive
and social functions of idols and idol worship. Finally, it
discusses idol worship from a contemporary Chinese perspective,
including emotional, interpersonal, and social learning aspects,
and ends with a discussion of moral development perspective.
This book introduces psychosocial studies of idol worship in
Chinese societies. It reviews how idol worship is perceived in
Chinese culture, history, and philosophy as well as how it differs
from the concept of celebrity worship that is more dominant in
Western literature. Using a pioneering hexagonal model of idol
worship, this book explains how idol worship is affected by various
demographic and dispositional variables as well as the cognitive
and social functions of idols and idol worship. Finally, it
discusses idol worship from a contemporary Chinese perspective,
including emotional, interpersonal, and social learning aspects,
and ends with a discussion of moral development perspective.
In recent decades, much of youth research in Chinese societies has
sought to understand the transformation of the younger generation
and their social environment in the context of globalization,
deindustrialization and economic insecurity. The epochal events of
the global economic transformation and financial crisis, along with
long-term Chinese social trends such as rising unemployment, income
disparity, and migration, are in the process of creating new
structural relations between young people and related social
actors. Accordingly, this book charts the current conditions of
youth services and policies in Chinese societies by examining case
studies in Beijing, Jinan, Shanghai, Tianjin, and Hong Kong. The
chapters address the related issues stemming from unemployment,
volunteering, internal migration, economic disadvantages, school
social work, and leadership training. Through comparative analyses
of the aforementioned issues, the collection highlights
contemporary issues in Chinese youth policies and services,
including work commitment, social inclusion, social support from
family and teachers, volunteering, and leadership training. The
book argues that the strengthening of empowerment and social
inclusion in Chinese youth services offers a solution to problems
of alienation, powerlessness, and underclass status. The quest for
social inclusion therefore merits renewed attention in the youth
policies and services of Chinese societies. This was originally
published as a special issue of the International Journal of
Adolescence and Youth.
This book addresses the life quality of the average adult in the
world, based on international data weighted according to national
population size. It rests on the theoretical framework of
analytic-functionalism to explain statics and dynamics in the
production of life quality. The statics means the influences of
personal and national factors on life quality, whereas the dynamics
mean the changes in the influences over time. This approach
elucidates life quality at the personal level rather than at the
national level, which overlooks what happens to the average person
living in the world. The approach involves a broad view of the
production of life quality, including experiences, practices, and
appraisals of life. This production also involves personal
background characteristics and the national indicators of
modernization, globalization, and environmental issues. Knowledge
about the production is helpful for policymakers, researchers,
students, and other people to upgrade life quality. Such knowledge
is valuable because it is up-to-date, generalizable, and sensible
based on the analytic-functionalist theoretical framework and
statistical estimation.
Social change is omnipresent, rapid, and influential, as it entails
people's responsive adaptation. Both social change and psychosocial
responses to it have been constantly attracting attention,
research, deliberation, theorising, and policy re-engineering, thus
furthering social change. Social change can cover economic,
political, cultural, and communal aspects. It can deal with issues
such as the economic or financial crisis, marketisation,
revolution, social movement, globalisation, nation building,
migration, urbanisation, demographic transition, secularisation,
acculturation, enculturation, modernisation, post-modernisation,
military or business war, and so on. Psychosocial responses can
cover morale, demoralisation, distress, anger, co-operation,
alliance, trust, aggression, suicide, caring, help seeking, social
integration, social cohesion, social identity, rebellion, and
crime. This book presents a thorough understanding of social change
and psychosocial responses to it which is indispensable to the
journey toward a better society and life.
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