TY - JOUR TI - THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN A CONFUCIAN-HERITAGE CULTURE AND TEACHERS' SENTIMENTS AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS INCLUSION IN MACAU AU - Correia, Ana AU - Forlin, Chris AU - Teixeira, Vitor Manuel dos Santos AU - Kuok, A. C. H. AU - Monteiro, Elisa AB - Macau Special Administration Region (Macau SAR) is in the process of revising legislation concerning special and inclusive education. While the institutional discourse revolves around establishing inclusive education, it is unclear as to how the proposed changes will enable or depress this from occurring. This research, therefore, examined teachers’ attitudes towards inclusion as an indication of how well the new legislation may be received. Specifically, it investigated the interplay between 508 teachers working in private schools in Macau, that identified themselves as being inclusive schools, and teachers’ sentiments and attitudes towards the acceptance of inclusion and the role that Confucian values might play in shaping these attitudes. Discussion focusses on four key outcomes that need to be addressed if a significant improvement in including all children in regular schools in Macau is to be achieved. These include the need (1) to clarify the concept of inclusion at government, school, and teacher levels as it currently has ambiguous meaning; (2) to provide teachers with more opportunities to have systematic contacts with students with SEN, as this is crucial to improving their sentiments and attitudes toward people with disability; (3) to provide professional learning about inclusive education with better partnerships between teacher education institutions and schools to bridge theory and practice; and (4) to review the hidden influence of the subtle levels of time-honoured Confucian beliefs in Macau, which are not manifest nor easily detected but possibly have a deep impact on day-to-day practices. DA - 2019/11/20/ PY - 2019 DO - 10.5281/ZENODO.3548921 DP - USJ Library UR - https://zenodo.org/record/3548921 Y2 - 2022/10/30/17:08:06 ER - TY - JOUR TI - The interplay between a Confucian-heritage culture and teachers’ sentiments and attitudes towards inclusion in Macao AU - Correia, Ana AU - Monteiro, Elisa AU - Kuok, Angus AU - Forlin, Christine AU - Teixeira, Vitor T2 - European Journal of Special Education Research DA - 2019/// PY - 2019 VL - 5 IS - 2 SP - 43 EP - 60 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Catholic schools and inclusive education in Macao: a journey of a thousand miles AU - Correia, Ana AU - Teixeira, Vitor T2 - EDUCA - International Catholic Journal of Education DA - 2017/06/05/ PY - 2017 VL - 3 LA - pt-PT ST - Catholic schools and inclusive education in Macao UR - https://educa.fmleao.pt/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Educa_3_06_Correia_Ana_M.-Teixeira_Vitor_S.pdf Y2 - 2021/02/10/10:07:57 ER - TY - JOUR TI - "The will and the way of inclusive education in Macao", AU - Correia, Ana AU - Teixeira, Vitor T2 - Asian Education and Development Studies DA - 2017/// PY - 2017 DO - https:// doi.org/10.1108/AEDS-05-2016-0040 VL - 6 IS - 4 SP - 401 EP - 413 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Home–School Collaboration in Assessment, Placement, and Individual Education Plan Development for Children With Special Education Needs in Macao: The Views of Parents AU - Correia, Ana AU - Teixeira, Vitor AU - Forlin, Chris T2 - School Community Journal AB - The aim of this study was to explore home–school collaboration in the areas of assessment, placement, and Individual Education Plan (IEP) development for children identified with disabilities or special educational needs (SEN) in Macao. Despite the noted benefits of parent–school partnerships from prior research, minimal research has been conducted from the perspective of parents of children with SEN to examine whether these partnerships materialize in the context of Macao. Participants included 115 parents of school-aged children diagnosed with SEN. They provided demographic information and completed a 36-item questionnaire derived from two validated instruments. The research identified a range of factors which hinder parental involvement in decision-making and in the inclusion of children with SEN in optimal ways in Macao schools. Parents indicated they were not receiving relevant information and assessment feedback from the teachers; they were minimally involved in the IEP process, and their children were not receiving one-to-one support, regardless of the type of placement. Parents also underlined issues related to the timing of assessment procedures. Parents of children attending special classes in regular schools voiced more satisfaction with support provision than parents of children following the full inclusion model. Recommendations about how services could be improved for greater parental involvement are discussed. Key Words: parental involvement, school–family collaboration, inclusion, special educational needs, Macao, Individual Education Plans, IEP DA - 2021/// PY - 2021 VL - 31 IS - 1 UR - https://www.adi.org/journal/2021ss/CorreiaEtAlSS21.pdf ER - TY - JOUR TI - Non-Native Raters and Native Speech: Other Perspective for the Research on Comprehensibility of Second Language Input AU - Figueiredo, Sandra AU - Simões, Edlia AU - Martins, Margarida Alves AU - Fernandes da Silva, Carlos T2 - synergy AB - Abstract: This study examines how specific variables such as age, first language, nationality, school grade and socioeconomic status (SES) affect the comprehensibility of second language (L2) speech in 92 second/non-native language learners. Comprehensibility refers to the degree of speech understanding. Fluency, rhythm, grammatical features and word stressing are concurrent factors for the listening comprehension (and the listener comprehensibility) mainly in L2 context. Research evidence focused the quality and differences of speech samples produced by the L2 learners and the comprehensibility rated by native speakers. In reverse scenario there is less evidence on the judgment of L2 learners for speech samples produced by native speakers. In this study we analysed if the comprehensibility ability of 92 young Portuguese L2 learners differ in the following conditions: age, nationality, home language, school grade, proficiency and socioeconomic status. Speech (one text) was recorded by a native speaker and was judged by L2 speakers using 1-5 Likert scale for comprehension difficulty. Main results showed that neither age nor home language had influence for comprehensibility, but socioeconomic, nationality and grades accounted for statistical differences between the groups tested. Also, data suggested that phonetic features are more likely important for the beginner in second language learning compared to the semantic features of speech that heavily depend on vocabulary domain. Keywords: Speech comprehensibility, nationality, grades, socioeconomic status, second language. Read more → DA - 2017/// PY - 2017 VL - 5 SP - 15 EP - 20 LA - en-US ST - Non-Native Raters and Native Speech UR - http://synergypublishers.com/downloads/ijslpav5a3/ Y2 - 2021/02/10/09:49:28 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Relationship between Traditional Chinese Beliefs about Aetiology of Mental Disorders and Help Seeking: A Survey of the Elderly in Macao AU - Found, A. T2 - East Asian Archives of Psychiatry: Official Journal of the Hong Kong College of Psychiatrists = Dong Ya Jing Shen Ke Xue Zhi: Xianggang Jing Shen Ke Yi Xue Yuan Qi Kan AB - OBJECTIVE: A wide range of factors can influence help-seeking attitudes when individuals experience a mental disorder. The current study investigated the relationship between traditional Chinese beliefs related to the aetiology of mental disorders and help-seeking attitudes among elderly participants in Macao. METHODS: In order to ensure the suitability of participants for inclusion in this study, the participants were required to complete an initial screening test using the Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire (SPMSQ). Participants who successfully passed the test (n = 183) completed a questionnaire that included the Inventory of Attitudes Toward Seeking Mental Health Services (IASMHS), a set of 9 items related to traditional Chinese beliefs about aetiology of mental disorders and demographic items. RESULTS: The IASMHS scores were higher for female participants and for participants who had completed high school compared with those who had never attended school or who had only completed primary education. Endorsement of traditional Chinese beliefs about the aetiology of mental disorders was higher for male participants. There was a negative correlation between traditional Chinese aetiology beliefs related to mental disorders and help-seeking attitudes. CONCLUSION: Traditional Chinese beliefs related to the aetiology of mental disorders are a negative factor that inhibits help seeking. Implications for efforts to increase the utilisation of mental health services by the elderly are discussed. DA - 2016/03// PY - 2016 DP - PubMed VL - 26 IS - 1 SP - 3 EP - 9 J2 - East Asian Arch Psychiatry LA - eng SN - 2224-7041 ST - Relationship between Traditional Chinese Beliefs about Aetiology of Mental Disorders and Help Seeking KW - Aged KW - Asian People KW - Asian continental ancestry group KW - Cultural Characteristics KW - Female KW - Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice KW - Help-seeking behavior KW - Humans KW - Macau KW - Male KW - Mental Disorders KW - Mental disorders / etiology KW - Patient Acceptance of Health Care ER - TY - JOUR TI - Attitudes to mental illness: the effects of labels and symptoms AU - Found, Andrew AU - Duarte, Carlos T2 - East Asian Archives of Psychiatry: Official Journal of the Hong Kong College of Psychiatrists = Dong Ya Jing Shen Ke Xue Zhi: Xianggang Jing Shen Ke Yi Xue Yuan Qi Kan AB - OBJECTIVES: To investigate the effects of different Chinese terms for mental illness and related symptoms on the attitudes of adolescents towards sufferers of a mental illness. METHODS: A survey of 578 secondary school students attending 4 schools in Macao was conducted. Each student read a short passage about a new student with a mental illness joining their class. Different versions used different labels to refer to the illness of the new student. The symptoms describing the new student also varied: either describing positive symptoms of schizophrenia or mild negative symptoms only. The attitudes of participants to the new student described were measured. RESULTS: There were significantly more negative attitudes towards the sufferer of a mental illness referred to with a psychiatric label, compared with a general label 'illness'. Participants also expressed significantly more negative attitudes when positive symptoms of schizophrenia were used to describe the new student. The results are discussed in terms of the influence of labels and symptoms on attitudes towards mental illness. CONCLUSIONS: These results supported the existence of 2 additive costs in terms of negative attitudes towards sufferers of mental illness, one associated with the label and the other associated with the symptoms. DA - 2011/09// PY - 2011 DP - PubMed VL - 21 IS - 3 SP - 91 EP - 98 J2 - East Asian Arch Psychiatry LA - eng SN - 2224-7041 ST - Attitudes to mental illness KW - Adolescent KW - Adolescent Behavior KW - Asian People KW - Attitude to Health KW - Female KW - Humans KW - Male KW - Mental Disorders KW - Stereotyping KW - Students KW - Surveys and Questionnaires KW - Young Adult ER - TY - JOUR TI - The etiology of mental disorders: public endorsement of traditional Chinese beliefs in Macau AU - Found, Andrew AU - Duarte, Carlos T2 - The International Journal of Social Psychiatry AB - BACKGROUND: Public beliefs concerning the causes of mental disorders are important in their effective treatment. The relative importance of public beliefs related to the etiology of mental disorders among Chinese populations and their relationship to other attitudes to mental disorders are poorly understood. AIMS: To investigate the endorsement of beliefs related to the etiology of mental disorders in Macau, in particular, traditional Chinese beliefs, and to explore their relationship to general attitudes towards mental disorders. METHODS: A survey of 361 members of the public measured attitudes towards 32 possible causes of mental disorders as well as contact with and social distance from individuals with a mental disorder. RESULTS: The results indicated that traditional Chinese beliefs were ranked with relatively low importance compared with psychosocial causes. Traditional beliefs related to two underlying factors and were significantly higher in participants with lower education levels. There was a significant negative correlation between endorsement of traditional beliefs and contact with individuals with a mental disorder and a significant positive correlation between endorsement of traditional beliefs and desired social distance from individuals with a mental disorder. CONCLUSION: Factors underlying traditional Chinese beliefs concerning the causes of mental disorders are associated with more negative attitudes towards individuals with a mental disorder, with such beliefs more strongly endorsed by those with relatively lower education levels. DA - 2013/12// PY - 2013 DO - 10.1177/0020764012456811 DP - PubMed VL - 59 IS - 8 SP - 789 EP - 800 J2 - Int J Soc Psychiatry LA - eng SN - 1741-2854 ST - The etiology of mental disorders KW - Adolescent KW - Adult KW - Aged KW - Attitude to Health KW - Chinese KW - Female KW - Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice KW - Humans KW - Macau KW - Male KW - Medicine, Chinese Traditional KW - Mental Disorders KW - Mental disorder KW - Middle Aged KW - Surveys and Questionnaires KW - Young Adult KW - etiology KW - lay theories ER - TY - JOUR TI - Gender, sibling position and parental expectations: A study of Chinese college students AU - Found, Andrew AU - Sam, David T2 - Journal of Family Studies AB - Differences in parental expectations related to cultural background, gender and sibling position were investigated among Chinese college students in Macau. Three-hundred and forty-four Chinese college students completed a questionnaire which included measures of parental expectations and psychological distress, as well as information about their gender, cultural background (Mainland China or Macau) and sibling position. Participants born in mainland China reported significantly higher perceived parental expectations (PPE) compared with students from Macau. Contrary to predictions, there was no evidence of a difference in PPE in relation to gender or being the first-born sibling. These findings are discussed in terms of changes in family values and parental attitudes within Chinese society over the past few decades. DA - 2013/12/01/ PY - 2013 DO - 10.5172/jfs.2013.19.3.285 DP - Taylor and Francis+NEJM VL - 19 IS - 3 SP - 285 EP - 296 SN - 1322-9400 ST - Gender, sibling position and parental expectations UR - https://doi.org/10.5172/jfs.2013.19.3.285 Y2 - 2023/04/11/11:50:08 KW - Chinese KW - gender KW - parenting KW - siblings KW - students ER - TY - JOUR TI - A Preliminary Psychometric Investigation of a Chinese Version of the Engaged Teachers Scale (C-ETS) AU - Ho, Sammy K. AU - Chan, Hang AU - Chan, Edmund Sze-Shing AU - Fung, Kwok-Kin AU - Hung, Shirley Suet-Lin T2 - Frontiers in Education AB - This study examines the psychometric properties of a Chinese version of the Engaged Teacher Scale (C-ETS). A translated questionnaire with 16 items was administered to a sample of 341 primary and secondary school teachers in Hong Kong. A series of confirmatory factor analyses were performed to assess the construct, convergent, and discriminant validity of the scale in alternative models. Results provide support for a second-order model with teacher engagement as an overarching construct with four hypothesized dimensions: emotional engagement, cognitive engagement, social engagement (students), and social engagement (colleagues). The C-ETS provides a useful measure for teacher engagement in Chinese societies. Contributions and limitations of the study are discussed. DA - 2021/// PY - 2021 DP - Frontiers VL - 6 SN - 2504-284X UR - https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2021.676835 Y2 - 2023/04/11/13:55:40 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Work engagement: Evolution of the concept and a new inventory. Psychological Thought, AU - Kuok, A.C.H. AU - Taormina, R.J. DA - 2017/// PY - 2017 VL - 2 IS - 10 SP - 262 EP - 287 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Are Work Engaged Employees Perceive Career Success? A Study of Hospitality at Macau AU - Kuok, A. C. H T2 - Journal of Hospitality AB - This study examined 206 casino dealers in hospitality at Macau to investigate the extent of their subjective career success and work engagement. Casino dealers were work engaged, but their subjective career success was fairly low, with significant difference between them, which indicates they have cognitive dissonance about their jobs. Several personality variables (emotional suppression and work ethic), organizational variables, i.e., organizational socialization (training, understanding, coworker support, future prospects), and distributive justice, were assessed in relation to subjective career success and work engagement. Organizational socialization, work ethic, and distributive justice were positively correlated with and predictors of subjective career success and work engagement; while emotion suppression was negatively correlated with and predictor of work engagement. This study provides evidence of extending the theories of subjective career success and work engagement in Chinese society and hospitality. Also, it identifies factors that could resolve the employees’ cognitive dissonance, and implementations for management were discussed. DA - 2020/03/06/ PY - 2020 DP - htmjournals.com VL - 2 IS - 1-2 SP - 30 EP - 48 LA - en SN - 2643-0924 ST - Are Work Engaged Employees Perceive Career Success? UR - http://htmjournals.com/jh/index.php/jh/article/view/19 Y2 - 2021/01/29/07:33:58 KW - Subjective career success KW - emotion suppression KW - hospitality KW - human resources KW - socialization KW - work engagement ER - TY - JOUR TI - Emotional Intelligence, Work Satisfaction, and Affective Commitment: An Occupational Health Study of Social Workers AU - Kuok, A. C. H. T2 - Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology AB - Social workers’ work engagement and burnout were tested in relation to (a) personal variable, i.e., emotional intelligence; (b) organizational variables, i.e., work satisfaction and affective commitment. Regressions revealed emotional intelligence - controlling self – negatively predicted depersonalization and reduced personal accomplishment and positively predicted three facets of work engagement. Emotional intelligence - understanding others – was a negative predictor of reduced personal accomplishment. In addition, work satisfaction negatively predicted three components of burnout and positively predicted emotional work engagement. Affective commitment was a positive predictor of three facets of work engagement and negatively predicted reduced personal accomplishment. Implications for management are discussed. DA - 2022/12/05/ PY - 2022 DO - 10.5093/jwop2022a14 DP - journals.copmadrid.org VL - 38 IS - 3 SP - 223 EP - 230 J2 - Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology LA - en SN - 1576-5962 ST - Emotional Intelligence, Work Satisfaction, and Affective Commitment UR - https://journals.copmadrid.org/jwop/art/jwop2022a14 Y2 - 2023/04/11/12:57:58 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Elite athletes’ mental well-being and life satisfaction: a study of elite athletes’ resilience and social support from an Asian unrecognisedNational Olympic Committee AU - Kuok, A. C. H AU - K. I. Chio, David AU - C. H. Pun, Alan T2 - Health Psychology Report AB - Introduction This study aimed to investigate elite athletes’ mental well-being, and to ascertain whether the personal factor resilience and the social factor social support can play a role in promoting mental well-being and life satisfaction. In addition, this is one of the first studies to investigate well-being among elite athletes who are from a region belonging to an unrecognised National Olympic Committee and are not eligible to join the Olympic Games. Material and methods Eighty-four full-time elite athletes (37 males, 47 females) with mean age of 22.36 years old participated in this quantitative research study. Formal letters describing the purpose and organiser of the study were sent to the sport entities in Macao asking their permission for the researchers to contact the elite athletes to participate in this study. After gaining the permission, the elite athletes belonging to these entities were approached individually, to inform them of the purpose of the study and receive their consent. Results Regression revealed that emotional support and adaptability of resilience were strong positive predictors of mental well-being. Additionally, mental well-being was found to be a strong positive predictor of life satisfaction. The results reflected that in elite athletes possessing high adaptability and receiving more emotional support could help to maintain their mental well-being. Conclusions Implications (based on the findings) are discussed in order to provide insights for policy makers or coaches how to promote elite athletes’ mental well-being. DA - 2021/06/28/ PY - 2021 DO - 10.5114/hpr.2021.107073 DP - USJ Library J2 - Health Psychology Report SN - 2353-4184, 2353-5571 ST - Elite athletes’ mental well-being and life satisfaction UR - https://hpr.termedia.pl/Elite-athletes-mental-well-being-and-life-satisfaction-a-study-of-elite-athletes,137608,0,2.html Y2 - 2022/10/30/17:06:32 ER - TY - JOUR TI - The antecedents of In-service teachers’ burnout in a casino dominant economy AU - Kuok, A. C. H. AU - Lam, S. M. I T2 - KEDI Journal of Educational Policy DA - 2018/// PY - 2018 DP - USJ Library VL - 15 IS - 2 SP - 67 EP - 86 ER - TY - JOUR TI - College Students’ Attitudes Toward Counseling for Mental Health Issues in Two Developing Asian Countries AU - Kuok, A. C. H AU - Rashidnia, J T2 - Spritual Psychology and Counseling DA - 2019/// PY - 2019 DP - USJ Library VL - 4 IS - 1 SP - 67 EP - 84 LA - en-US Y2 - 2022/10/30/17:43:22 ER - TY - JOUR TI - A positivist approach to work engagement: moderating effects of perceived organizational support AU - Kuok, A. C. H AU - Taormina, Robert J. T2 - Dynamic Relationships Management Journal DA - 2022/05/23/ PY - 2022 DO - 10.17708/DRMJ.2021.v11n01a04 DP - USJ Library VL - 11 IS - 1 J2 - DRMJ SN - 22325867, 2350367X ST - A POSITIVIST APPROACH TO WORK ENGAGEMENT UR - https://sam-d.si/en/revija/a-positivist-approach-to-work-engagement-moderating-effects-of-perceived-organizational-support/ Y2 - 2022/10/30/17:02:15 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Conflict between affective versus continuance commitment among casino dealers AU - Kuok, A. C. H AU - Taormina, Robert J. T2 - Evidence-based HRM: a Global Forum for Empirical Scholarship AB - Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the extent of the reported low affective commitment compared to continuance commitment of Chinese casino dealers, to discern if there is a significant difference between the two types of commitment, and to identify factors that could explain the difference between them. Design/methodology/approach – Questionnaire data were obtained from 247 Chinese casino dealers working for the three major casino groups in Macau. Correlations and regressions were used to analyze the data. Findings – Dealers’ affective commitment was significantly lower than their continuance commitment, suggesting dealers do not like their jobs but do not leave them, which indicates they have cognitive dissonance about their jobs. Organizational socialization, organizational support, and supervisor integrity were positively correlated with affective commitment; while value of money, pay satisfaction, and neuroticism, were positively correlated with continuance commitment. Organizational support was the strongest predictor of affective commitment, while the value they place on money was the strongest predictor of continuance commitment. Practical implications – Casino managers could improve dealers’ affective commitment by facilitating their organizational socialization, especially training and rewards for their work, providing greater organizational support, and fair and supportive treatment from their supervisors. Originality/value – This is the first study to provide evidence of the difference between affective and continuance commitment in Chinese society, and identifies factors that influence each type of commitment, and may help resolve the employees’ dilemma about their jobs, which is an important concern for Chinese managers. DA - 2015/04/07/ PY - 2015 DO - 10.1108/EBHRM-12-2013-0039 DP - USJ Library VL - 3 IS - 1 SP - 46 EP - 63 LA - en SN - 2049-3983 UR - https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/EBHRM-12-2013-0039/full/html Y2 - 2022/11/01/09:14:13 ER - TY - JOUR TI - The Effect of Self-Efficacy and Role Understanding on Teachers’ Emotional Exhaustion and Work Engagement in Inclusive Education in Macao (SAR) AU - Kuok, A. C. H. AU - Teixeira, Vitor AU - Forlin, Chris AU - Monteiro, Elisa AU - Correia, Ana T2 - International Journal of Disability, Development and Education AB - This study examined responses from 508 full-time teachers working in inclusive schools in Macao (SAR). The intention was to understand the teachers’ perceptions about their roles and how they responded to inclusive practices in their school. Teachers’ perceived levels of emotional exhaustion and cognitive work engagement were assessed in relation to several professional competencies (self-efficacy with using inclusive instruction, collaborating with parents and paraprofessionals, and managing disruptive behaviours), as well as the organisational variable of role understanding. Regression analysis showed that teachers’ self-efficacy with using inclusive instruction was found to be the most powerful negative predictor of emotional exhaustion; while self-efficacy for managing disruptive behaviours was a positive predictor of teachers’ cognitive work engagement. Teachers’ level of understanding of their role and that of their schools was a negative predictor of emotional exhaustion and a positive predictor of cognitive work engagement. Moreover, it further confirmed that the concept of co-existence between work engagement and burnout can be applied to inclusive teachers. Results were interpreted in relation to management in inclusive schools in Macao and were followed by a discussion on the implications of enhancing inclusive education. DA - 2020/08/20/ PY - 2020 DO - 10.1080/1034912X.2020.1808949 SP - 1 EP - 19 LA - English SN - 1034-912X, 1465-346X UR - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1034912X.2020.1808949 Y2 - 2021/01/29/07:32:21 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Insights for management among non-gaming industries: Employees’ dissonance in a casino dominant economy AU - Kuok, A.C.H. T2 - Revista de Psicología del Trabajo y de las Organizaciones DA - 2017/04// PY - 2017 DO - 10.1016/j.rpto.2016.12.003 DP - USJ Library VL - 33 IS - 1 SP - 33 EP - 39 J2 - Revista de Psicología del Trabajo y de las Organizaciones LA - en SN - 15765962 ST - Insights for management among non-gaming industries UR - http://journals.copmadrid.org/jwop/article.php?id=df0aab058ce179e4f7ab135ed4e641a9 Y2 - 2022/11/01/09:12:38 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Unravelling potentials and limitations of sharing economy in reducing unnecessary consumption: A social science perspective AU - Lai, Michael K. W. AU - Ho, Amy P. Y. T2 - Resources, Conservation and Recycling AB - Hyper-consumption in capitalist economies has had a severe impact on the environment that no one can escape. In recent year, there has been a high degree of optimism in sharing economy with regard to coping with the environmental problems caused by consumption. However, most of the current literature focuses on business perspectives in which a sharing economy is portrayed as a new business model, but not as a way to curb environmental degradation. This paper, based on a social science perspective, investigates the potentials and limitations of the strategies adopted in sharing economy projects towards social transformation (especially coping with environmental degradation and hyper-consumption), with the adoption of Erik Olin Wright’s concept of real utopia. A case study approach has been adopted in terms of a sharing economy project named ‘Waste-no-mall (Yuen Long)’ in Hong Kong. The project founder embraces ideological-led strategies based on collective responsibility, self-determination and reflexivity, encouraging the participants to reflect on their consumption behaviours, and thus increasing the level of awareness of the need to reduce unnecessary consumption. However, it is a double-edge sword that limits its impact to those who are active participants, without spreading to others the need for change. It is also limited for their interstitial strategies within the project, and is unable to call for a concrete symbiotic transformation when it comes to policy. The significance of this paper is two-fold. First, it adopts a social science perspective that centres on exploring the proclaimed social implications of sharing economy, an aspect which is under-studied given that most of current studies are from a business perspective; second, it extends Wright’s concept to an operational level by showing an important pathway aiming to solve environmental problems through the simultaneous achievement of both horizontal and vertical balancing strategies, based on Wright’s concept of real utopia. DA - 2020/02/01/ PY - 2020 DO - 10.1016/j.resconrec.2019.104546 DP - ScienceDirect VL - 153 SP - 104546 J2 - Resources, Conservation and Recycling LA - en SN - 0921-3449 ST - Unravelling potentials and limitations of sharing economy in reducing unnecessary consumption UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921344919304525 Y2 - 2023/04/11/14:11:53 KW - Hong Kong KW - Mindful consumption KW - Real utopia KW - Sharing economy KW - Social transformation ER - TY - JOUR TI - Self-Efficacy, Stress and Job Satisfaction among Pre-Service, Novice and Experienced English Teachers: A Study of their Occupational Health AU - Lam, Stacy AU - Kuok, A. C. H. AU - Sze, Tat Ming T2 - Health Psychology Report AB - Background This study aimed to investigate English teachers’ self-efficacy for student engagement, classroom management, instructional strategies and literacy instruction, as well as to discover teacher stress and job satisfaction can play a role in interfering their occupational health (in terms of self-efficacy). In addition, this is one of the first studies to understand the differences in self-efficacy among pre-service, novice and experienced in-service teachers in a Chinese society, where English is positioned as a foreign language. Participants and procedure 271 English teachers (90 pre-service, 181 in-service) with mean teaching experience of 5.57 months for per-service, and 98.51 months for in-service were participated in this quantitative research study, as the targets were not be able to approach randomly, the English teachers were approaching individually though referral sampling, informing that the purpose of the study and receive their consent. Results It discovered both pre-service and novice in-service teachers posses lowest self-efficacy. Moreover, teachers’ stress from classroom predicted their self-efficacy for student engagement and classroom management negatively. On the other hand, teachers’ job satisfaction predicts their self-efficacy for student engagement, instructional strategies and literacy instruction positively. Conclusions Implications (based on the findings) are discussed in order to provide insights for for schools and education departments to strengthen the teachers’ capability of teaching and their occupational health. DA - 2022/05/30/ PY - 2022 DO - 10.5114/hpr.2022.115768 DP - USJ Library J2 - Health Psychology Report SN - 2353-4184, 2353-5571 ST - Self-Efficacy, Stress and Job Satisfaction among Pre-Service, Novice and Experienced English Teachers UR - https://hpr.termedia.pl/Self-Efficacy-Stress-and-Job-Satisfaction-among-Pre-Service-Novice-and-Experienced,147488,0,2.html Y2 - 2022/10/30/17:01:12 ER - TY - JOUR TI - An exploration of building up the quality of parent-child relationship in residential childcare in Macao AU - Leong, On Na Ribeiro AU - Liu, Shu-Wen T2 - Asian Social Work and Policy Review DA - 2022/// PY - 2022 DO - 10.1111/aswp.12252 DP - Wiley Online Library VL - 16 IS - 2 SP - 114 EP - 125 LA - en SN - 1753-1411 UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/aswp.12252 Y2 - 2023/04/11/13:41:52 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Parental stress and parenting in Chinese immigrant families: The mediating role of social support AU - Liu, Shu-Wen AU - Zhai, Fuhua AU - Gao, Qin T2 - Child & Family Social Work AB - Abstract As the population of Chinese immigrants has been growing rapidly in the United States, it has been understudied on the parenting behaviours as well as the roles parental stress and social support playing in parenting in this group. This study investigated whether parental stress was associated with parenting and whether this relationship was mediated by social support in a sample of 255 Chinese immigrant parents from the Survey of Asian American Families in New York City. Regression analyses with a rich array of control variables found that a higher level of parental stress and the presence of one or more stressors such as unemployment, low income, and low education were positively associated with the use of harsh discipline and parent?child conflicts and negatively associated with positive parenting practices. Social support functioned as a significant mediator in the relationships between parental stress and positive parenting practices but not in the relationships of parental stress with parent?child conflict or the use of harsh discipline. DA - 2020/08/01/ PY - 2020 DO - 10.1111/cfs.12734 VL - 25 IS - S1 SP - 135 EP - 148 J2 - Child & Family Social Work SN - 1356-7500 UR - https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12734 Y2 - 2021/07/28/00:00:00 KW - Chinese immigrants KW - harsh discipline KW - parental stress KW - parenting practices KW - parent–child conflict KW - social support ER - TY - JOUR TI - Perceived efficacy of teachers in Macao and their alacrity to engage with inclusive education AU - Monteiro, Elisa AU - Kuok, A. C. H. AU - Correia, Ana AU - Forlin, Chris AU - Teixeira, Vitor T2 - International Journal of Inclusive Education AB - This paper reports findings of a mixed methods study examining private school teachers’ perceptions of efficacy in dealing with the challenges presented by inclusive education in Macao. This is highly pertinent after the Government invited consultation to propose changes to amendments of the Decree Law of 1996 concerning the education of students with Special Education Needs (SEN) which will likely see private schools being required to accept these students in the future. Within the context of teacher preparedness for inclusive education, the study found that a number of teachers felt that they were not at all prepared to teach students with SEN. Whilst some teachers suggested that they lacked skills and knowledge in teaching in inclusive classrooms, some felt overwhelmed with the challenges. The teachers proposed that they would need to know how to provide instructional adaptations and modifications to support students with SEN. Implications for continuous development of teacher training and education are discussed within the context of improving teacher efficacy and how private school teachers could better respond to the challenges of inclusive education in Macao. DA - 2019/01/02/ PY - 2019 DO - 10.1080/13603116.2018.1514762 DP - Taylor and Francis+NEJM VL - 23 IS - 1 SP - 93 EP - 108 SN - 1360-3116 UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2018.1514762 Y2 - 2021/02/17/09:36:15 KW - Inclusive education KW - Macao KW - teacher education KW - teacher efficacy ER - TY - JOUR TI - Examining the Factor Structure of the Victorian Gambling Screen in Chinese Casino Workers. AU - Mordeno, I.G. AU - Nalipay, M.J.N. AU - Coteriano, C. AU - Leong, S.U. T2 - Current Psychology DA - 2017/// PY - 2017 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-017-9699-0 SP - 1 EP - 10 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Analysis of reading errors in Portuguese : digraphs and complex syllabic structures AU - Simões, Edlia AU - Martins, Margarida Alves T2 - Análise Psicológica AB - Abstract: The Portuguese language poses several challenges for children in the initial phase of learning how to read, particularly in the case of letters that may correspond to more than one phoneme, two letters that correspond to a single phoneme and in the case of words containing complex syllabic structures. The objective of this study was to perform a psycholinguistic analysis of the reading errors of children, attending the 1st (n=175) and 2nd year (n=137) of schooling, specifically in the case of words containing digraphs or complex syllabic structures and to analyse the differences between children’s reading errors in these two years. An oral reading test was used for data collection. A quantitative and qualitative analysis of the type of reading errors was conducted using words with consonant digraphs (ch, nh, lh, gu, rr, ss), and words with complex syllables . This analysis showed that children presented greater difficulties in some specific digraphs and tended to simplify complex syllables, either by adding or deleting phonemes. The quantity and quality of the reading errors of children attending both grades were discussed in light of reading acquisition theories and children’s phonological development. DA - 2020/12// PY - 2020 DO - 10.14417/ap.1732 DP - repositorio.ispa.pt VL - 38 IS - 2 SP - 199 EP - 210 J2 - Análise dos erros de leitura no Português : dígrafos e estruturas silábicas complexas LA - eng SN - 0870-8231 ST - Analysis of reading errors in Portuguese UR - https://repositorio.ispa.pt/handle/10400.12/7907 Y2 - 2023/03/14/21:07:13 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Reading acquisition in beginner readers: Typical errors in European Portuguese AU - Simões, Edlia AU - Martins, Margarida Alves T2 - Educação e Pesquisa DA - 2018/// PY - 2018 DO - 10.1590/s1678-4634201844165734 DP - SciELO VL - 44 LA - en SN - 1517-9702 ST - Reading acquisition in beginner readers UR - http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1517-97022018000100444&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en Y2 - 2021/02/17/03:17:14 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Shequ construction and service development in urban China: an examination of the Shenzhen model AU - Tang, Ning AU - Sun, Fei T2 - Community Development Journal DA - 2017/01/14/ PY - 2017 DO - 10.1093/cdj/bsw055 DP - Silverchair VL - 52 IS - 1 SP - 10 EP - 20 J2 - Community Development Journal SN - 0010-3802 ST - Shequ construction and service development in urban China UR - https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsw055 Y2 - 2021/02/17/09:49:15 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Measuring Specific Traditional Chinese Values in Relation to Satisfaction of the Five Maslow Needs AU - Taormina, Robert J. AU - Gao, Jennifer H. AU - Kuok, A. C.H. T2 - Psychological Thought AB - To determine whether living according to specific traditional Chinese cultural values was associated with satisfaction of the five needs in Maslow’s motivational hierarchy and overall life satisfaction, a mixed-method approach was employed, with an empirical questionnaire and supplemental interviews. The questionnaire assessed the hypothesized relationships that traditional Chinese values had with personal life outcomes, including health, employment, satisfaction of the five needs from Maslow’s hierarchy, and life satisfaction. The interviews examined the relationships that several demographic variables had with living by traditional Chinese values. The results of the empirical data revealed that most Chinese people today are still living according to the traditional Chinese cultural values, and that living by those traditional values are strongly associated with satisfaction of all five of the human needs in the Maslow hierarchy, as well as with overall life satisfaction. Additionally, the results of the qualitative interviews readily supported the empirical findings, and also revealed that the time during which inter-generational transmission of the Chinese cultural values occurs is when parents teach those values to their children at a very early age, that is, between 3 and 8 years old, before the children start primary school. DA - 2022/04/30/ PY - 2022 DO - 10.37708/psyct.v15i1.636 DP - USJ Library VL - 15 IS - 1 SP - 132 EP - 164 J2 - PSYCT SN - 2193-7281 UR - https://psyct.swu.bg/index.php/psyct/article/view/636 Y2 - 2022/10/30/17:03:21 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Perceived competence and social acceptance of preschool children in Macao: a case study AU - Teixeira, Vitor AU - Correia, Ana T2 - International Journal of Learning and Teaching DA - 2017/// PY - 2017 DO - 10.18178/ijlt.3.3.226-231 VL - 3 IS - 3 SP - 226 EP - 231 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Placement, inclusion, law and teachers’ perceptions in Macao’s schools AU - Teixeira, Vitor AU - Correia, Ana AU - Monteiro, Elisa AU - Kuok, A. C. H. AU - Forlin, Chris T2 - International Journal of Inclusive Education AB - In Macao, the government has initiated a debate regarding revisions in the Decree Law in order to promote a more inclusive schooling system. In this Special Administrative Region of China, inclusive education is one of three possible types of special education that are likely be legislated in the future. The way the teachers perceive the different aspects related to inclusive education, namely the principles, concepts and law, is essential for its full implementation. The aim of this study is to understand teachers’ perceptions about the proposed amendments in the consultation document for changes in the special education regime. In particular, we focus on teachers’ acceptance of the recommended role of parents, the proposed placement models and expectations for teacher training. A mixed-methods approach with a survey of a sample of 500 teachers in private schools and interviews to a sub-sample of 20 provide the data. While agreeing in principle with the majority of the proposed changes in the Decree Law, there were several reservations made by the teachers, especially regarding the extent of parental choice, placement decisions and teacher training. Recommendations to continue the pathway for a more inclusive education system in Macao and for further research are made. DA - 2018/09/02/ PY - 2018 DO - 10.1080/13603116.2017.1414318 DP - Taylor and Francis+NEJM VL - 22 IS - 9 SP - 1014 EP - 1032 SN - 1360-3116 UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2017.1414318 Y2 - 2021/02/17/09:46:13 KW - Disability KW - education policy KW - inclusive education KW - special education KW - special education needs ER - TY - JOUR TI - The use Robotics in the intervention with children with ASD in Macao: a pilot study with Milo AU - Teixeira, Vitor AU - Lai, Michael T2 - Revista Portuguesa de Investigação Educacional AB - Robotics are being used in the intervention with children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in many places and already for many years. Many robots were developed and different studies are being made in order to evaluate its effectiveness. “Socially Assistive Robotics” is shown to be effective in different areas mainly in social and emotional development. Milo, a robot developed by a team led by Richard Margolin for the Robots4Autism program (RoboKind, 2020), is one of the robots whose use is reported to be successful. In Macao there is no report of studies or experiences on the use of robots in the intervention with children with ASD. In a collaboration between the Macao Science Centre, the Macao Autism Association (MAA) and the University of Saint Joseph, an exploratory study was developed to understand the applicability of Milo to the work with children with ASD in Macao. The study showed that the robot is able to facilitate social and emotional competences of children with ASD. However, several limitations including language, cultural differences, the inexperienced facilitators and the level of sessions are too simple for the participants to be aware of that may affect the effectiveness of the intervention. It is important to show that the adoption of Milo in Macao for intervening children with ASD can be further implemented, with better practical solutions. DA - 2021/09/28/ PY - 2021 DO - 10.34632/investigacaoeducacional.2021.10041 DP - revistas.ucp.pt IS - 21 SP - 1 EP - 26 J2 - 1 LA - en SN - 2182-4614 ST - The use Robotics in the intervention with children with ASD in Macao UR - https://revistas.ucp.pt/index.php/investigacaoeducacional/article/view/10041 Y2 - 2023/03/21/16:09:36 ER -