Analyses showed that adolescents who were older, had non-intact families, had fathers who were homemakers, had parents of a lower educational level, or had economically disadvantaged families, had a significantly higher level of suicidal ideation. Pearson correlation analyses showed that emotional competence, social problem solving, father-adolescent communication, mother-adolescent communication and family functioning were negatively related to adolescent suicidal ideation, while hopelessness was positively related to it. Regression analyses also showed that the above factors were significant predictors of adolescent suicidal ideation. / Based on a family ecological model, this study investigated personal factors (hopelessness, social problem solving, emotional competence) and family factors (parent-adolescent communication, family functioning) related to suicidal ideation among secondary school students in Hong Kong utilizing a cross-sectional survey design. A total of 5,928 self-administered questionnaires based on convenience sampling (male = 53.1%, female = 46.9%) were collected from 42 secondary schools on Hong Kong Island, in Kowloon and the New Territories. The participants were Form 1 to Form 4 students, with a mean age of 13.87. / The theoretical implications of the findings are that emotional competence, social problem solving, hopelessness, parent-adolescent communication and family functioning can be considered as key building blocks in the models of adolescent suicidal ideation. Practically speaking, enhancing emotional competence, social problem solving skills, sense of hope, quality of parent-adolescent communication and healthy family functioning with reference to the family ecological framework is important for preventing and treating adolescent suicidal ideation. Implications for policy development and social service delivery are further elaborated. In addition, limitations of the study are discussed and recommendations for further study are made. / Three types of causal models were tested in the study. In the direct effects model, hopelessness was the most important predictor among different correlates, followed by mother-adolescent communication, family functioning, social problem solving and father-adolescent communication, while emotional competence was the least important. In the mediating model, path analyses showed that hopelessness mediated the relationship between both personal and family correlates and adolescent suicidal ideation. In the moderating models, hierarchical regression analyses showed that mother-adolescent communication moderated the relationship between hopelessness and adolescent suicidal ideation. / "December 2007." / Adviser: Tan Lei Daniel Shek. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-08, Section: A, page: 3320. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-297). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstract in English and Chionese. / School code: 1307.

published_or_final_version / Social Work / Master / Master of Social Work

Ho Kiu-Chor. / Thesis submitted in: July 2003. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references. / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i-ii / Chapter Chapter One --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter Two --- Literature Review --- p.16 / Chapter Chapter Three --- Methodology --- p.51 / Chapter Chapter Four --- Media Discourse and Adolescent Experience of Consuming Media Images --- p.84 / Chapter Chapter Five --- Disciplinary Practices of Schools and Self-concepts of Adolescents --- p.121 / Chapter Chapter Six --- Discursive Tactics and Adolescent Subjectivities --- p.168 / Chapter Chapter Seven --- Conclusion --- p.195 / Bibliography --- p.i-v / Appendix --- p.i-iii

published_or_final_version / Social Work / Master / Master of Social Sciences

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 / Social Work / Master / Master of Social Work

published_or_final_version / Speech and Hearing Sciences / Master / Master of Science in Audiology

published_or_final_version / Social Work / Master / Master of Social Work

published_or_final_version / Business / Master / Master of Philosophy