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Direct linkKing, Elizabeth J.; Rozek, Laura; Lin, Ann Chih; Hicken, Allen; Jones, Pauline; Aleksandrova, Ekaterina; Meylakhs, Peter; Nambunmee, Kowit; Tardif, Twila – Health Education & Behavior, 2022
Control of the COVID-19 pandemic requires significant changes in people's health behaviors. We offer this multidisciplinary perspective on the extent of compliance with social distancing recommendations and on coping with these measures around the globe in the first months of the pandemic. We present descriptive data from our survey of 17,650…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, COVID-19, Pandemics, Coping
Wong, Tracy K. Y.; Konishi, Chiaki; Zhang, Melody Y. Q. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2022
This study examined adolescents' perceived paternal and maternal parenting in relation to different types of prosocial behaviors. Adolescent gender and age were considered as moderators. Participants included 439 Grades 7-11 adolescents (55.13% girls) from five secondary schools in Hong Kong. Path analysis indicated that maternal and paternal…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Parent Child Relationship, Personal Autonomy, Prosocial Behavior
Smetana, Judith G.; Wong, Mun; Ball, Courtney; Yau, Jenny – Child Development, 2014
A total of 267 five-, seven-, and ten-year-olds (M = 7.62), 147 in Hong Kong and 120 in the United States, evaluated hypothetical personal (and moral) events described as either essential or peripheral to actors' identity. Except for young Chinese in the peripheral condition, straightforward personal events were overwhelmingly evaluated as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Self Concept, Compliance (Psychology)
Fung, Dennis – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2014
This article reports the results of a one-year longitudinal study examining a teaching intervention designed to enhance students' learning of critical thinking in Hong Kong. Seventy participating students (age 16-18) learned how to make reasoned arguments through a series of collaborative activities, including critical-thinking modelling tasks and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Critical Thinking, Persuasive Discourse
Kember, David; Hong, Celina; Ho, Amber; Ho, Amaly – Studies in Higher Education, 2011
A motivational orientation framework for higher education has previously been derived from interviews with 36 undergraduate students in an elite university system. The framework consists of six interacting facets of motivation represented by continua labelled: compliance, individual goal setting, sense of belonging, interest, career and university…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Higher Education, Curriculum Design, Goal Orientation
Kember, David; Ho, Amber; Hong, Celina – Studies in Higher Education, 2010
Governments are aiming to expand the intake to higher education, so it is important to understand what motivates students to enter university and choose a particular programme. The aim of this study was to see whether a motivational orientation framework, developed to explain motivation to study, could also be applied to motivation to enrol in a…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Undergraduate Students, Goal Orientation, Student Motivation
Kember, David; Hong, Celina; Ho, Amber – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2008
Background: Consideration of motivation in higher education has often been drawn upon theories and research that were based upon school or workplace studies. Aims: This paper reports an open naturalistic study to better characterize the motivational orientation of students in higher education. Method: Open semi-structured individual interviews…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Motivation, Objectives, Foreign Countries
