The Psychological Well-being of East Asian YouthChin-Chun Yi Springer Science & Business Media, 2012年10月12日 - 346 頁 The rapid social change in the East Asia has brought great research attention on the family, education and political impacts. The growth trajectory of the next generation is exposed to an entirely different context owing to the dual effects of traditional and modern values as well as practices. This book provides an overall picture of the developmental trajectory of Taiwanese youth as a typical example in the region. The time frame is set from early adolescence (13years old) to young adulthood (22yeard old). Individual psychological well-being in its broad definition will be used as the outcome indicator to reflect significant developmental processes during this important transitional life course. Benefitted from the rare panel datasets conducted from 2000-2009, this book has two major focuses: one is to explore the interplay among family, school and community with regard to their influence on the individual growth patterns; the other is to highlight the potential constraint and/or strength of the prevailing social norms and values shared among East Asian societies. To be specific, different chapters will describe and analyze the life chances and growth patterns among youth with different social capitals (including family SES, educational achievement, rural-urban residence, etc.). Their short-term versus long-term outcome, as indicated by various psychological well-being variables (e.g., depressive symptoms, deviant or problem behaviors, happiness, edutional performance), will allow us to delineate the particular structural context that individual East Asian youth encounters and to offer constructive suggestions on family interaction, educational strategy as well as health related policies based on the scientific evidence. This book incorporates comparative reports from other East Asian societies, and from youth panel studies of Australia and the U.S.. The experience of their counter-part in the advanced societies will contribute to readers’ understanding of the particular social situation that East Asian youth is embedded in the growth process. In addition, comparative perspective will enable the reader to contemplate on the potential future development of the affluent generation in the region. Since changing social structure occurred in the last few decades in the East Asia has suffered inadequate investigation in the realm of family, education and community, this book provides timely information to fill up the gap. Analyses of the valuable dataset from early adolescents to young adults will attract those who are interested in family researches, in youth studies, in panel data analyses, as well as in the social development in Taiwan and in East Asia. |
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Academia Sinica academic performance adolescents after-school classes analysis Asia associated attending cram school child children’s personal agency Chinese classroom co-residence cram classes cultural delinquent behaviors depressive symptoms developmental deviant behaviors deviant peers East Asian youth educational tracking effects entrance examination factors family cohesion family income female friendship networks gender grade guan higher Hong Kong indicate individuals influence junior high school Korean youth leaving home status male marriage measure mental health migrant children Model neighborhood outcomes panel data parasite single patterns psychological well-being psychosocial adjustment relations reported sample satisfaction score self-efficacy self-esteem senior stage siblings significant single-parent families sleep disorders social capital social networks society Springer Science+Business Media Statistics structural holes subjective well-being survey Table Taipei City Taipei County Taiwan Youth Project Taiwanese youth teenagers variables vocational high wave Yilan County young adulthood young adults