published_or_final_version / Social Work / Master / Master of Social Work

published_or_final_version / Social Work / Master / Master of Social Work

published_or_final_version / abstract / Social Work and Social Administration / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

複印手抄本. / Thesis (M.A.)--香港中文大學. / Fu yin shou chao ben. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 137-147). / Thesis (M.A.)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue. / Chapter 第一章 --- 研究的目標與意義 / Chapter 第二章 --- 理論基礎 / Chapter 一 --- 現代化的函義 / Chapter 二 --- 傳統、現代化、與過性 / Chapter 三 --- 價值與態度 / Chapter 四 --- 個人現代化與婚姻態度 / Chapter 第三章 --- 研究方法與設計 / Chapter 一 --- 研究的模型 / Chapter 二 --- 概念定義 / Chapter 三 --- 問卷的設計 / Chapter 四 --- 抽樣及資料收集 / Chapter 五 --- 統計分析方法 / Chapter 第四章 --- 樣本的社會背景 / Chapter 一 --- 樣本的個人背景 / Chapter 二 --- 樣本的家庭背景 / Chapter 第五章 --- 現代價值與個人現代化 / Chapter 一 --- 現代化的一般趋势̐ưج現代價值 / Chapter 二 --- 個人背景與個人現代化 / Chapter 三 --- 家庭背景與個人現代化 / Chapter 第六章 --- 婚姻態度的現代意識 / Chapter 一 --- 婚姻態度的一般趋势 / Chapter 二 --- 個人背景與婚姻態度 / Chapter 三 --- 家庭背景與婚姻態度 / Chapter 第七章 --- 結論 / 注釋 / Chapter 附錄一 --- 個人現代化量表 / Chapter 附錄二 --- 婚姻態度量表 / Chapter 附錄三 --- 個人及家庭背景問卷

本研究旨在探索香港夫婦根據他們的社會文化背景對自己在婚姻中所遇到性功能障礙的經驗詮釋和主觀視角。當生理性觀點支配我們理解整全的性行為或性經驗時，這種看法甚至於遮蔽我們在個人、關係和社會心理的向度上所表達與「性」方面有關的活動，亦逐漸令性治療的專業範疇顯得不能完善地對應需要而失效，或許更相信有效的治療方法在於去除生理醫學上的病徵，回復正常的性功能；但是，這樣未必有助於改善性生活的質素和箇中關係。因此，本研究嘗試透過被評估有性功能障礙的夫婦，去檢視他們對有關婚姻經驗的詮釋，就此探討性功能障礙在婚姻境況中的意義和重要性。本專題論文會特別考究臨床社會工作在更闊的社會文化脈絡中，要怎樣理解配偶在婚姻經驗中的詮釋，藉以拓展擴大我們對性功能障礙的現象及其呈現的選擇和可能性的理解與考察，從中由病原學的探究轉向去理解性功能障礙在具體境域中所呈現的意義和重要性。 / 本研究採用了解釋主義研究範式的取向，並著重描述性現象學和哲學詮釋學的原則，致力於人與人關係方面的知識和解構配偶在社會文化中所生成的文本。解釋主義者相信人類行為的多樣性、差異性和複雜性；而描述性現象學和哲學詮釋學的原則便提供了知識建構上的策略和理解經驗意義的四個探索向度：理解的脈絡、時間性、自我或身體的理解及與他人的關係。這亦引申到是次質性研究所涉及的概念框架預設。在研究的設計中，應用了深入面談的方式進行：八位被評估有性功能障礙的配偶及他們在異性戀婚姻中的伴侶，同意參與是次研究，詳細描述了他們在婚姻中的有關經驗和性功能障礙在婚姻中的意義及重要性。 / 研究顯示，夫婦們所描述的故事內容包括具體的婚姻生活、在婚姻中所經驗的性功能障礙和有關性功能障礙的意義及重要性的詮釋。綜合概觀八個故事，有七個重要的主題呈現出來：第一、同樣有性功能障礙的夫婦卻在婚姻關係及滿足感上各有差異；第二、夫婦都以互為主觀的看法和透過關係中的互動去描述性功能障礙的獨特意義及其重要性；第三、配偶們沒有在詮釋性功能障礙的病徵上採取生理學的看法，他們反而按社會經濟方面的理解脈絡 (例如：工作壓力、長工時、家庭財政負擔或樓房按揭)、關係上的脈絡 (例如：婚姻關係、配偶間之互動和親友的關係)、時間性的脈絡 (例如：生育的計劃、過往沮喪的經驗和有關的聯想) 去描述自身性生活的困難，較只以純粹生理性的假設更多、更複雜；第四、他們在詮釋性功能障礙的經驗中，都埋下了結構性的時間觀念，或在時間的境域上同時伸展就過去、現在和未來的意識，從而由性交生活的範圍越出到非性交生活的範圍作一連繫，這可與直線的時間觀作一比對；第五、配偶們通常會以他們的生育計劃去解釋性功能障礙在婚姻中的意義和重要性；第六、忙碌的生活或絶少空閒的生活境況往往是夫婦在家庭和社會經濟範疇上的顯著特徵；第七、除性交以外，配偶們經歷和探索了其他可以令夫婦關係和性生活滿足的選擇，例如自慰、愛撫、擁抱、親吻或甜言蜜語。 / 有關本研究的主要成果，它採取了描述性現象學和哲學詮釋學的原則作為質性研究的取向，並以此為基礎邁向一種集合生理、心理及社會性的理解樣式，有助探索關於性功能障礙在婚姻中所呈現的經驗意義，越過並擴展純粹生理學及病原學的觀點，協助建立社會工作就這方面的明確介入方向，為綜合完備的臨床實務作一基礎。此外，更對單一地了解性功能障礙在婚姻中的意義，而忽略它的多樣性現象，作一意識形態上的批判。 / This research aimed at exploring the insiders’ perspectives of the couples towards sexual dysfunctions in marriage according to their own interpretation in the socio-cultural context of Hong Kong. While the biological aspects comprise an integral part of our understanding of sexuality, it has been developing to conceal our views of the individual, relational and psychosocial dimensions of sexual expression that may eventually prove stultifying to the professional field of sex therapy. It may be increasingly effective at removing biomedical symptoms to normal sexual functioning albeit contributing little else to the improvement of sexual life quality and relations. Thus, this research attempted to investigate the marital experience of spouses, who had been assessed with sexual dysfunctions, through their interpretation, whereas the significance of sexual dysfunctions was investigated at dyadic level in marital context. Interpretation of experience in marriage for the spouses of the present study was specific to clinical social work in a wider socio-cultural context. It drove us to expand the horizon of understanding and investigation towards the phenomenon of sexual dysfunction with the concern of human alternatives or possibilities, veering round from etiology to understanding of human significance of sexual dysfunctions in contexts. / This study adopted the interpretive research paradigm with emphasis of the principles of descriptive phenomenology and philosophical hermeneutics for attention to the relational aspects of knowledge and the deconstruction of socio-cultural texts of the spouses. Interpretivists believed in multiplicity, diversity and complexity of human behavior, whereas the principles of descriptive phenomenology and philosophical hermeneutics furnished epistemological strategies for searching of meanings of the experiences in the dimensions of space (perceived context), time, self (body) and relations (others) that articulated a conceptual framework for pre-understanding of this qualitative inquiry. In this qualitative study employed with in-depth interviews, eight spouses assessed with sexual dysfunctions and their partners in heterosexual marriage had been recruited to provide personal accounts of their marital experience and perceived significance of sexual dysfunctions in marriage. / As results of the study, the stories of the couples showed through their marital life, experience of sexual dysfunctions and perceived significance of sexual dysfunction in marriage. Having examined across the eight cases, seven major themes arose from their interpretations: (a) there were diversified marital relationship and satisfaction for the spouses who had the experience of sexual dysfunctions in marriage; (b) the unique meaning and importance of sexual dysfunction in marriage was described upon the inter-subjective views of the couples through interactive perceptions; (c) the spouses did not adopt a physiological view towards the symptoms of the sexual dysfunctions or rather they interpreted their experience of sexual difficulties in light of socio-economic context (e.g., work stress, long work hour, burden of household finance, mortgage), relational context (e.g., relationship of marriage, interaction with spouse and relationship with friends) and temporal context (e.g., birth plan, past dreary experience and the related association), more than biological given; (d) they interpreted the experience of sexual dysfunction embedded with structural time or in a horizon of temporality stretching through past, present and future, from the sphere of coitus to the sphere beyond coitus that juxtaposed with the linear time concept; (e) the spouses usually interpreted the significance of sexual dysfunction in view of their plan of reproduction; (f) stress arisen from busy life and occupied living condition in household and socio-economic context was a prominent feature of their marital life; (g) the spouses sought alternatives for sexual and relational satisfaction apart from coitus, e.g. masturbation, caress, hug, kiss or sweet words. / For the implications of the study, it had been working towards a bio-psycho-social model with adoption of the principles of descriptive phenomenology and philosophical hermeneutics searching for meaning of the experience that surmounted physiological and etiological views of sexual dysfunctions in marriage, and shed light on social work intervention for sexual dysfunction, especially for sake of a substratum of clinical integrative practice. It also made an ideological critique on uni-mode of understanding against the sexual dysfunctions in marriage without consideration of its multifaceted phenomena. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Kwan, Ka Wing. / Thesis (Ph.D.) Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2013. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 485-537). / Abstracts also in Chinese.

Between 2001 and 2011, a total of 509,809 new immigrants have migrated from Mainland China to Hong Kong on the One-way Permit for family reunification, in which 69.7% were female who are typically wives of Hong Kong permanent residents. How these marriage migrants integrate into Hong Kong society and the assessment of their impact to Hong Kong is becoming a pivotal issue. Many studies and surveys indicated that these marriage migrants have encountered tremendous difficulties during their course of immigration adaptation, and many have resulted in severe psychological stress. Extensive literature has empirically documented that social support facilitates immigrants’ ability to make use of relationships to buffer their adaptation challenges and to promote their integration into the new environment. Yet hardly any studies have examined the determinants and changes of social support among these marriage migrants within a longitudinal framework. The purpose of this study is to investigate the determinants of social support, including the structural, functional and the perception of social support. The “Social Support Mobilization Model” suggests that perceived stress leads to an increase in social support. On the contrary, the “Social Support Deterioration Model” suggests that persistent high level of stress erodes social support over time. This study test the Deterioration Model by examining the impact of lingering of stress levels on social support. Using a random sample of 211 Chinese marriage migrants from a two-year longitudinal secondary data, bivariate and multiple regression analyses were performed to examine the associations of social support with acculturation stress, persistent stress, psychological well-being, optimism and perceived neighborhood disorder. Findings indicated that marriage migrants have difficulties in re-establishing their social network outside their own community. Acculturation stress and psychological well-being were found to be the two most crucial factors affecting social support. Acculturation stress predicted both the structural and functional aspects of social support, but not the perceived social support. The psychological well-being, on the other hand, exerted significant influence on both the functional and perceived social support, but not on the structural social support. Results suggested that social support interventions should focus on alleviating acculturation stress, expanding social networking opportunity outside of their own immigrant community and enhancing psychological well-being. Besides, professional counseling and psychological support services should be provided to new immigrants, especially those who have experienced high level of stress. / published_or_final_version / Social Work and Social Administration / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

published_or_final_version / Social Work / Master / Master of Social Sciences

The main purpose of the study was to look at possible differences in perceptions between the older and the younger generation of the boat people about marriage and the family. The respondents for this study were the boat people from the Shaukiwan Fish Market of Hong Kong. A questionnaire using a number of items pertaining to marriage and family living from the large scale project of The Urban Family Life Survey Of Hong Kong was developed. The questionnaire consisted of sixty-three questions, employing both closed and open-ended responses. The interpretative questions of attitudes and perceptions include: the courtship and marriage process, husband and wife relationship, family size and family planning, parent and child relationships, kin network, and career choices. Data for this study were collected in the summer of 1981, and were analysed using a chi-square statistical test. The level of significant was set at .05. The total number of respondents who participated in this study was 60. The two independent groups studied were an older male generation (aged 45 to 79) and a younger male generation (aged 20 to 35). The results indicate that there were statistically significant differences in the attitudes and perceptions of older and younger male boat people of Hong Kong in many aspects of marriage and family living. / Master of Science

published_or_final_version / Social Work / Master / Master of Social Work

Lee Ka-man. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 80-88). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Members of Thesis Committee --- p.ii / Abstract --- p.iii / Chinese Abstract --- p.v / Acknowledgements --- p.vii / Table of Contents --- p.ix / List of Tables --- p.xi / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction to the Research Question --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Introduction / Chapter 1.2 --- Life Course Perspective / Chapter 1.2.1 --- Basic Principles of the Life Course Perspective / Chapter 1.2.2 --- Timings of life events / Chapter 1.2.3 --- Cohort Analysis to Study Social Change / Chapter 1.3. --- Determinants of Family Timing / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Analytical framework --- p.11 / Chapter 2.1 --- Introduction / Chapter 2.2 --- Gender Comparison / Chapter 2.3 --- Cohort Comparison / Chapter 2.4 --- Determinants of Family Timings / Chapter 2.4.1 --- The Extension of Education / Chapter 2.4.2 --- Work Career Development / Chapter 2.4.3 --- Migration History / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Family Formation in a Changing Social Context --- p.28 / Chapter 3.1 --- Introduction / Chapter 3.2 --- Migration Experiences / Chapter 3.3 --- Education Expansion / Chapter 3.4 --- Increased Labour Force Participation / Chapter 3.5 --- First Marriage / Chapter 3.6 --- First Birth / Chapter Chapter 4 --- Data and Method --- p.43 / Chapter 4.1 --- Data and Measures / Chapter 4.2 --- Method / Chapter Chapter 5 --- First Marriage --- p.53 / Chapter 5.1 --- Introduction / Chapter 5.2 --- Gender Comparison / Chapter 5.3 --- Cohort Comparison / Chapter 5.4 --- Summary / Chapter Chapter 6 --- First Birth --- p.62 / Chapter 6.1 --- Introduction / Chapter 6.2 --- Transition to Parenthood since Age15 / Chapter 6.2.1 --- Gender Comparison / Chapter 6.2.2 --- Cohort Comparison / Chapter 6.3 --- Transition into First birth since Marriage / Chapter 6.3.1 --- Gender Comparison / Chapter 6.3.2 --- Cohort Comparison / Chapter 6.4 --- Summary / Chapter Chapter 7 --- Discussion and Conclusion --- p.72 / Chapter 7.1 --- Research Questions / Chapter 7.2 --- Key Findings / Chapter 7.3 --- Limitations / Chapter 7.4 --- Implications for Future Studies / Chapter 7.4.1 --- Sibling Order and Number of Sibling / Chapter 7.4.2 --- Parents' Educational Attainment and Occupational Status / Chapter 7.4.3 --- Residential Arrangement / Bibliography --- p.80