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Journal Articles

Dr. KWOK LAI Yuk Ching Sylvia

  1. Kwok, Sylvia YCL, Gu, Minmin, Cheung, Andy* (2017). A longitudinal study on the role of children’s altruism and forgiveness in the relation between parental aggressive discipline and anxiety of Chinese preschoolers in China. Child Abuse & Neglect, 65, 236-247. * PhD candidate 
  2. Kwok, Sylvia YCL, & Gu, Minmin (2017). The role of emotional competence in the association between optimism and depression among Chinese Adolescents. Child Indicators Research, 10(1), 171-185. 
  3. Tam, Cherry, Kwok, Sylvia, Lo, Herman, Low, Andrew, Yeung, Jerf, Li, Candice (2017). The moderating effects of positive psychology strengths on the relationship between parental anxiety and child depression: The significance of fathers’ role. Children and Youth Services Review, 73, 283-290. 
  4. Wong, Daniel FK, Lau, Ying, Kwok, Sylvia YCL, & Wong, Prudence (2017). Evaluating effectiveness of mental health first aid programme for Hong Kong Chinese. Research on Social Work Practice, 27(1), 59-67.   
  5. Lo, Herman, Kwok, Sylvia, Yeung, Jerf, Tam, Cherry. Low, Andrew (2017). The moderating effects of gratitude on the association between perceived parenting styles and suicidal ideation. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 26(6), 1671-1680. 
  6. Ling, Chloe*, Kwok, Sylvia (2017). An integrated resilience and ecological model of child abuse (REC-model). Journal of Child and Family Studies, 26(6) 1655-1663* PhD graduate
  7. Kwok, Sylvia YCL, Gu, Minmin, & Tong, Katrina* (2016). Positive psychology intervention to alleviate child depression and increase life satisfaction: A randomized clinical trial. Research on Social Work Practice, 26(4), 350-361. *PhD student
  8. Wong, Daniel FK, Kwok, Sylvia YCL, Low, Y. T., Man, K. W., & Ip, P. S. (2016). Evaluating effectiveness of Cognitive–Behavior Therapy for Hong Kong adolescents with anxiety problems. Research on Social Work Practice
  9. Yeung, Jerf, Cheung, Jacky, Kwok, Sylvia, & Leung, Janet (2016). Socialization effects of authoritative parenting and its discrepancy on children. Journal of Child and Family Studies.25(6), 1980-1990.

  10. Leung, Cyrus, Kwok, Sylvia YCL, & Ling, Chloe* (2015). An integrated model of suicidal ideation in transcultural populations of Chinese adolescents. Community Mental Health Journal, 52, 574-581.*PhD graduate

  11. Chow, Bonnie WY, Chui, Barbie HT, Lai, Michael WC, & Kwok, Sylvia YCL (2015). Differential influences of parental home literacy practices and anxiety in English as a foreign language on Chinese children’s English development. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism.

  12. Kwok, Sylvia YCL, Yeung, Jerf WF, Low, Andrew, YT, Lo, Herman, HM, Tam Cherry, HT (2015). The roles of emotional competence and social problem-solving in the relationship between physical abuse and adolescent suicidal ideation in China. Child Abuse & Neglect, 44, 117-129.

  13. Kwok, Sylvia YCL, Cheng, Leveda, Chow, Bonnie WY, Ling, Chloe CY* (2015). The spillover effect of parenting on marital satisfaction among Chinese mothers. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 24, 772-783. * PhD graduate

  14. Kwan, Roger WH, Kwok, Sylvia YCL, Ling, Chloe CY* (2015). The moderating roles of parenting self-efficacy and co-parenting alliance on marital satisfaction among Chinese fathers and mothers. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 24 (12), 3506-3515. *PhD graduate

  15. Kwok, Sylvia YCL, Cheng, Leveda, Wong, Daniel FK (2015). Family emotional support, positive psychological capital and job satisfaction among Chinese white-collar workers. Journal of Happiness Studies, 16, 561-582.

  16. Kwok, Sylvia YCL, Li, Ben, KK (2015). A mediation model of father involvement with preschool children in Hong Kong. Social Indicators Research, 122(3), 905-923.

  17. Kwok, Sylvia YCL, Leung, Cyrus LK, Wong, Daniel FK (2014). Marital satisfaction of Chinese mothers of children with autism and intellectual disabilities in Hong Kong. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 58(12).

  18. Ho, Henry CY, Yeung, Dannii, YL, Kwok, Sylvia YCL (2014). Development and evaluation of the positive psychology intervention for older adults. Journal of Positive Psychology, 9(3), 187-197.

  19. Kwok, Sylvia YCL (2014) The moderating role of emotional competence in suicidal ideation among Chinese university students. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 70(4), 843-854.

  20. Kwok, Sylvia YCL, Chai, Wenyu, He, Xuesong (2013). Child abuse and suicidal ideation among adolescents in China. Child Abuse & Neglect, 37(11) 986-996.

  21. Yeung Yuen Lan, Kwok, Sylvia YCL, Chung, Annie* (2013). Institutional peer support mediates the impact of physical declines on depressive symptoms in nursing home residents. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 69(4), 875-885.

  22. Kwok, Sylvia YCL, Ling, Chloe CY*, Leung, Cyrus LK, Li, Jessica CM (2013). Fathering self-efficacy, marital satisfaction, father involvement in Hong Kong. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 22, 1051-1060.  *PhD graduate


Dr. FUNG Lai Chu Annis

  1. Fung, A. L. C. (In press). Intervention for Reactive/ Proactive Aggressors and Aggressive/ Pure Victims of School Bullying in Hong Kong: A Review and New Developments. Neuropsychiatry

  2. Fung, A. L. C. (2017). Reducing Schoolchildren with Reactive Aggression through Child, Parent, and Conjoint Parent-child Group Interventions: A Longitudinal Outcome Effectiveness Study. Family Process.

  3. Fung, A. L. C. (2017). Cognitive-Behavioural Group Therapy for Pure Victims with Internalizing Problems: An Evidence-based One-year Longitudinal Study. Applied Research in Quality of Life.

  4. Gao, Y. , Zhang, W. , Eisenbarth, H. , Fung, A. L. C. , Raine, A. , Raine, A. , Lee, T. & Li., X. (2017). P3 amplitude and psychopathic traits in youths: Distinct contributions of grandiose-manipulative and daring-impulsive traits. Personality and Individual Differences

  5. Fung, A. L. C. , Tsang, E. Y. H. , Zhou, G. D. , Low, A. Y. T. , Ho, M. Y. & Lam, B. Y. H. (2017). Relationship between peer victimization and reactive-proactive aggression in schoolchildren. Psychology of Violence

  6. Leung, M. K., Lau, W. K., Chan, C. C., Wong, S. S., Fung, A. L. C., & Lee, T. M. (2017). Meditation-induced neuroplastic changes in amygdala activity during negative affective processing. Social Neuroscience, 1-12.

  7. Zhou, G. & Fung, A. L. C. (2016). Inter-Parental Conflict and Reactive and Proactive Aggression in Adolescence: A Moderated Mediation Model. International Journal of Psychology51, 24.

  8. Gao, Y., Zhang, W. & Fung, A.L.C. (2016). The associations between parenting styles and proactive and reactive aggression in Hong Kong children and adolescents. International Journal of Psychology50(6), 463 - 471.

  9. Li, A.X. & Fung, A.L.C. (2015). Reactive and Proactive Aggression in Mainland Chinese Secondary School Students. Journal of Social Work50(6), 463 - 471.

  10. Fung, A.L.C., Gerstein, L.H., Chan, Y.C. & Engebretson, J. (2015). Relationship of aggression to anxiety, depression, anger, and empathy in Hong Kong. Journal of Child and Family Studies24, 821 - 831.

  11. Raine, A., Fung, A.L.C., Portnoy, J., Choy, O. & Spring, V.L. (2014). Low heart rate as a risk factor for child and adolescent proactive aggressive and impulsive psychopathic behavior. Aggressive Behavior40, 290 - 299.


Dr. TAM Hau Lin Cherry

  1. To, S.M., Tam, H.L., Ngai, S.S.Y. & Sung, W. L. (in press). Sense of meaningfulness, sources of meaning, and self-evaluation of economically disadvantaged youth in Hong Kong: Implications for youth development programs. Children and Youth Services Review, doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2014.10.010. 

  2. To, S.M., Tam, H.L. & Chan, W.C.H. (2013). Life education for Hong Kong adolescents: current status and future directions. Journal of Youth Studies, 16(1), 111-121. (in Chinese) 

  3. To, S. M., Tam, H. L. & Chu, F. (2013). A Qualitative Study of the Lived Experiences of Young Chinese Females in Condom Use Negotiations. International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, 8(4), 248 - 262. 

  4. Tam, H. L. (2012). A Discourse and Practice Gap in Working with Youth-at-disadvantage in the Outreach Social Work Service in Hong Kong. Children and Youth Services Review, 34(8), 1570 – 1580. 

  5. Tam, H. L. (2011). “Delinquent Behaviour as a Kind of Body Politics” against Adult Regulations – Young People’s Discourses in Hong Kong. Children and Youth Services Review, 33(6), 878–887.


Dr. LOW Yiu Tsang Andrew

  1. Low, Y.T. (accepted 31 Jul 2013). Can Hong Kong Chinese parents and their adolescent children benefit from an adapted UK parenting programme?. Journal of Social Work.

  2. Low, Y. T. (2014). Parents’ perception of Effective Components of a Parenting Programme for Parents of Adolescents in Hong Kong. Revista de Cercetare şi Intervenţie Socială, (46), 162-181.

  3. Low, Y T. (2013). Can Parenting Programme Reduce Parent-Adolescents Conflicts in Hong Kong?. REVISTA DE CERCETARE SI INTERVENTIE SOCIALA. 42. 7 - 27.


Dr. YEUNG Wai Keung Jerf

  1. Cheung, C. K., & Yeung, J. W. K. (in press).  Enhancing job performance and mental health through organizational nurturing culture. Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership, & Governance.

  2. Yeung, J. W. K. (In Press). Investigating the relationships between family socialization and adolescent outcomes in Chinese parent-child dyads. Child Indicators Research.

  3. Kwok, S. Y. C. L., Yeung, J. W. K., Low, A. Y. T., Lo, H. H. M., &  Tam, C. H. L. (in press).  The roles of emotional competence and social problem-solving in the relationship between physical abuse and adolescent suicidal ideation in China. Child Abuse & Neglect.

  4. Yeung, J. W. K., & Chan, Y. C. (2014). Parents’ religious involvement, family socialization and development of their children in a Chinese sample of Hong Kong. Social Indicators Research, 117, 987–1010.

  5. Yeung, J. W. K., & Fan, C. P. S. (2013). Being Socially Isolated is a Matter of Subjectivity: the Mediator of Life Meaning and Moderator of Religiosity. Review of Research and Social Intervention, 42, 204-227. 

  6. Yeung, J. W. K., & Chan, Y. C. (2011). The mediating role of parental psychological health in Chinese families in an impoverished context in Hong Kong. Drustvena istrazivanja: Journal for General Social Issues, 20(4), 1085-1100.

  7. Cheung, C. K., & Yeung, J. W. K., (2011). Meta-analysis of Relationships between Religiosity and Constructive and Destructive Behaviors among Youth. Children and Youth Services Review, 33(2), 376-385.

  8. Yeung, J. W. K., & Chan, Y. C. (2010). Family functioning of Chinese families on an impoverished neighborhood in Hong Kong. Psychological Reports, 107(3), 740-748.

  9. Cheung, C. K., & Yeung, J. W. K. (2010). Gender Differential in Deviant Friends’ Influence on Children’s Academic Self-esteem. Children and Youth Services Review, 32, 1750-1757.

  10. Yeung, J. W. K., Kwok, Sylvia Y. C. L., & Chung, A. (2010). Correlates and Prevalence of Depression in Nursing Home Chinese Residents in Hong Kong and Implications for Services and Policy Intervention. Ljetopis socijalnog rada: Annual of social work, 17(3), 445-460. 

  11. Yeung, J. W. K., Cheng H. C. H., Chan, F. K. H., & Chan, Y. C. (2010). Religiosity and Youth Destructive Behaviors: A Meta-Analysis. International Journal of Psychology Research, 6(1-2), 143-172.

  12. Chan, Y. C., & Yeung J. W. K. (2009). Children living with violence within the family and its sequelae:  A Meta-Analysis from 1995-2006. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 14, 313-322.

  13. Cheng, H. C. H., Chan, Y. C., & Yeung, J. W. K. (2009). Ambivalences and dilemmas in handling family violence cases among youth workers in Hong Kong. Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development, 19(1), 22-38.

  14. Yeung, J. W. K., & Chan, Y. C. (2009). Youth religiosity and substance use: A meta-analysis from 1995 to 2007. Psychological Reports, 105, 1-12.

  15. Yeung, J. W. K., Cheung, C. K., & Chan, Y. C. (2007). Impacts of religious involvement on adolescent health and behavioral outcomes: Implications for local research in Hong Kong. Journal of Youth Studies, 10(2), 178-197.


Dr. WONG Wing Kuen

  1. Wong, A. W.-K.., Chiu, H. C., Wang, J., Cao, J., Wong, S., & Chen, H.-C. (in press). An early locus of associative and categorical context effects in speech production: Evidence from an ERP study using the picture-word interference paradigm. Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience. 

  2. Wang, J., Wong, A. W.-K., Wang, S., & Chen, H.-C. (in press). Primary phonological planning units in spoken word production are language-specific: Evidence from an ERP study. Scientific Reports.

  3. Wong, A. W.-K., Wang, J., Ng, T.Y., & Chen, H.-C. (2016). Syllabic encoding during overt speech production in Cantonese: Evidence from temporal brain responses. Brain Research, 1648, 101-109

  4. Wong, A. W.-K., Wu, Y., & Chen, H.-C. (2014). Limited role of phonology in reading Chinese two-character compounds: Evidence from an ERP study. Neuroscience, 256, 342-351.

  5. Wong, A.W.-K., Huang, J., & Chen, H.-C. (2012). Phonological units in spoken word production: Insights from Cantonese. PLoS One, 7(11): e48776.