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| Sheung Tak ChengSummaryAffiliation: City University of Hong Kong Country: China Publications
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Factorial structure of the kidcope in Hong Kong adolescentsSheung Tak Cheng
Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon
J Genet Psychol 164:261-6. 2003..Implications for the use of the Kidcope in research and preventive intervention are discussed...
Peer victimization and depression among Hong Kong adolescentsSheung Tak Cheng
Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong
J Clin Psychol 64:766-76. 2008..A buffering effect was found for friend support, but only in boys; high support from friends was associated with fewer depressive symptoms at high levels of victimization...- Age differences in forgiveness: the role of future time perspectiveSheung Tak Cheng
Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
Psychol Aging 23:676-80. 2008..An Age x Time perspective interaction showed that only in older adults did a time-expanded manipulation lead to lower forgiveness than the neutral condition... - Living status and psychological well-being: social comparison as a moderator in later lifeSheung Tak Cheng
Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Aging Ment Health 12:654-61. 2008..This study examined whether downward social comparison, i.e. perceiving oneself as better than others, would moderate this relationship... - Validity of the GDS-4 revisitedSheung Tak Cheng
Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Psychol Health Med 13:621-6. 2008..Furthermore, their data analytic methods were flawed, and their conclusions were often not supported by the data they presented. On the basis of these observations, we found no evidence against the use of the 4-item version of the GDS... 
Generativity in later life: Perceived respect from younger generations as a determinant of goal disengagement and psychological well-beingSheung Tak Cheng
Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 64:45-54. 2009..When their attitudes are unfavorable, a downward spiral in generativity development and well-being is possible...- Global aging: challenges for community psychologySheung Tak Cheng
Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Am J Community Psychol 44:161-73. 2009..A central theme of the paper is that community psychology can have a role in producing the conceptual shifts needed to change societal attitudes now dominated by negative age stereotypes... - The impacts of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and socioeconomic development on the living arrangements of older persons in sub-Saharan Africa: a country-level analysisSheung Tak Cheng
Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Am J Community Psychol 44:136-47. 2009..The pandemic and socioeconomic development combine to accelerate the breakdown of the extended family structure so that older persons are less and less likely to reside with, and to receive support from, their children... - Self-perception and psychological well-being: the benefits of foreseeing a worse futureSheung Tak Cheng
Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Psychol Aging 24:623-33. 2009.... - Detecting depression in Chinese adults with mild dementia: findings with two versions of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression ScaleSheung Tak Cheng
Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Psychiatry Res 159:44-9. 2008..Compared with the full 20-item scale, the 10-item version has the added advantage of an identical threshold across age and cognitive status... - Multiple pathways from stress to suicidality and the protective effect of social support in Hong Kong adolescentsSheung Tak Cheng
Department of Applied Social Studies at the City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Suicide Life Threat Behav 37:187-96. 2007..Enhancing stress coping ability, promoting positive family relationships, and attacking attitudes supportive of death might be the best strategies to prevent youth suicide... - The Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale in older Chinese: thresholds for long and short formsSheung Tak Cheng
Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 20:465-70. 2005..Data were also provided, based on simulated scoring, for the diagnostic performance of the scales when using dichotomous instead of 4-point rating scales... - A brief version of the geriatric depression scale for the chineseSheung Tak Cheng
Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Psychol Assess 16:182-6. 2004..A hierarchical measurement model in which the 4 items tapped 2 first-order factors (positive and negative affect), which in turn tapped a higher order construct of depression, provided excellent fit to the data... - Age and subjective well-being revisited: a discrepancy perspectiveSheung Tak Cheng
Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Psychol Aging 19:409-15. 2004..Hence, the net effect of all the GDs on well-being was positive. GD variations because of age could completely explain the age trends in life satisfaction and positive affect, and partially the age trend in negative affect... - Comparative performance of long and short forms of the Geriatric Depression Scale in mildly demented ChineseSheung Tak Cheng
Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 20:1131-7. 2005.... - Relationship with others and life satisfaction in later life: do gender and widowhood make a difference?Sheung Tak Cheng
Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 61:P46-53. 2006..We discuss the results in terms of how gender roles shape relationship goals, and thus how men and women evaluate life satisfaction differently in the context of relationship with others... - Social support and self-rated health revisited: is there a gender difference in later life?Sheung Tak Cheng
City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Soc Sci Med 63:118-22. 2006..This suggests that the effect of social support by and large is gender free. These findings suggest a high degree of similarity in the determinants of self-rated health between Western and Chinese older populations... - Factorial structure of a short version of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression ScaleSheung Tak Cheng
Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 21:333-6. 2006..To investigate the factor structure of a ten-item version of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CESD-10)... - An exploratory study of the effect of mahjong on the cognitive functioning of persons with dementiaSheung Tak Cheng
Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 21:611-7. 2006..To explore the effect of an activity treatment-mahjong-on the cognitive functioning of persons with mild-to-moderate dementia... - Filial piety and psychological well-being in well older ChineseSheung Tak Cheng
Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 61:P262-9. 2006..There was no evidence that a child's overdoing his or her filial role was detrimental to the parents' well-being among the Chinese individuals in this study... - Social exchanges and subjective well-being: do sources of positive and negative exchanges matter?Sheung Tak Cheng
Department of Psychological Studies, Hong Kong Institute of Education, 10 Lo Ping Road, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong, China
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 66:708-18. 2011..To decompose the effects of positive and negative social exchanges on well-being in terms of relationship type (vertically extended family, horizontally extended family, or nonfamily) and subjective closeness (close vs. peripheral)... - Maintaining self-rated health through social comparison in old ageSheung Tak Cheng
Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 62:P277-85. 2007..This improved physical self in turn partially recovered the damage to SRH... - The geriatric depression scale as a screening tool for depression and suicide ideation: a replication and extentionSheung Tak Cheng
Department of Psychological Studies, Hong Kong Institute of Education and Kwai Chung Hospital, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 18:256-65. 2010.... - Withdrawal, apathy and lack of vigor in late life depression: factorial validity and relationship to diagnosisSheung Tak Cheng
Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Aging Ment Health 11:532-7. 2007..The extent to which false positives become an issue depends on the specific threshold chosen (which entails a tradeoff with sensitivity) rather than the presence of WAV items... - Social network types and subjective well-being in Chinese older adultsSheung Tak Cheng
Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 64:713-22. 2009..Results suggested the importance of the extended family in support provision for Chinese older adults, especially in the absence of immediate kin and friends. Implications of the present findings for other cultural groups are discussed... - Shame, internalized heterosexism, lesbian identity, and coming out to others: A comparative study of lesbians in mainland China and Hong KongPizza Ka Yee Chow
Department of Psychological Studies, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong, China
J Couns Psychol 57:92-104. 2010..Results are discussed in relation to the cultural stigma attached to same-sex orientation and the cultural practice of shaming that parents use to socialize children... - Neuropsychiatric symptom clusters of Alzheimer's disease in Hong Kong Chinese: prevalence and confirmatory factor analysis of the Neuropsychiatric InventorySheung Tak Cheng
Department of Psychological Studies, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong, China
Int Psychogeriatr 24:1465-73. 2012..The aim of this study was to investigate the clustering of symptoms on the Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) and the relative prevalence of symptom clusters in mild and moderate Alzheimer's disease (AD)...