Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02185385.2022.2136235
Zhifeng He, Yuanlin Xiang, Congpeng Qi, Xiaohe Liu, Sisi Li
ABSTRACT COVID-19 provides a window of opportunity for observing community resilience initiatives. Based on the Community Resilience Initiative Framework, we adopt a qualitative approach to investigate a Chinese urban community, focusing on community initiatives with regard to fighting the COVID-19 epidemic. The findings highlight several primary factors, including the agency of community actors, the grid management system, and the utilisation of WeChat groups.The collective experience of fighting against COVID-19 has boosted community interaction, understanding and trust, and has further promoted the capacity of problem solving in the community, and thus established community self-organisation. These findings have important implications for community development in the post-epidemic era.
{"title":"The emergence and impact of community resilience initiatives during the COVID-19 pandemic: an exploration study from a Chinese urban community","authors":"Zhifeng He, Yuanlin Xiang, Congpeng Qi, Xiaohe Liu, Sisi Li","doi":"10.1080/02185385.2022.2136235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02185385.2022.2136235","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT COVID-19 provides a window of opportunity for observing community resilience initiatives. Based on the Community Resilience Initiative Framework, we adopt a qualitative approach to investigate a Chinese urban community, focusing on community initiatives with regard to fighting the COVID-19 epidemic. The findings highlight several primary factors, including the agency of community actors, the grid management system, and the utilisation of WeChat groups.The collective experience of fighting against COVID-19 has boosted community interaction, understanding and trust, and has further promoted the capacity of problem solving in the community, and thus established community self-organisation. These findings have important implications for community development in the post-epidemic era.","PeriodicalId":44820,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development","volume":"39 1","pages":"262 - 277"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87515788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02185385.2022.2135588
Chung-Yang Yeh, Pei-Yuen Tsai, Yeun-Wen Ku
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic presents an opportunity to study public attitudes towards government provision of financial support. By focusing on Taiwan, we find that financial concern is a crucial determinant in explaining public attitudes towards government financial support, and trust in government capacity to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic effectively moderates the impact of financial concerns. We conclude that trust in government capacity is not only the key to the legitimacy of government financial support, but also helps mitigate citizens’ sense of economic insecurity and uncertainty during the COVID-19 crisis.
{"title":"Public attitude towards government financial support during the COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan","authors":"Chung-Yang Yeh, Pei-Yuen Tsai, Yeun-Wen Ku","doi":"10.1080/02185385.2022.2135588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02185385.2022.2135588","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic presents an opportunity to study public attitudes towards government provision of financial support. By focusing on Taiwan, we find that financial concern is a crucial determinant in explaining public attitudes towards government financial support, and trust in government capacity to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic effectively moderates the impact of financial concerns. We conclude that trust in government capacity is not only the key to the legitimacy of government financial support, but also helps mitigate citizens’ sense of economic insecurity and uncertainty during the COVID-19 crisis.","PeriodicalId":44820,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development","volume":"1610 1","pages":"229 - 243"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86510703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02185385.2022.2136234
Tauchid Komara Yuda, Mina Kim, Aungsumalee Pholpark, Hamzah Nor Bin Aedy Rahman
ABSTRACT This article aimed to compare the social policy responses to COVID-19 in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand using an institutionalist’s perspective. So far, the crisis expanded social protection through temporary schemes, with rare reforms, and opened greater possibilities for future institutionalisation of new policies. We argue that the COVID-19 policy responses must be viewed as an unfinished agenda of expansion-driven policy responses to the 1997–1998 financial crisis. Still, these are different sets of measures from the previous crisis, which have been characterised by minimal systemic changes. The variegated responses of countries reveal hitherto unexplored policy implications for the Southeast Asian region.
{"title":"Unmasking the social policy responses of COVID-19 in four Southeast Asian Nations: institutional patterns and policy adjustment","authors":"Tauchid Komara Yuda, Mina Kim, Aungsumalee Pholpark, Hamzah Nor Bin Aedy Rahman","doi":"10.1080/02185385.2022.2136234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02185385.2022.2136234","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article aimed to compare the social policy responses to COVID-19 in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand using an institutionalist’s perspective. So far, the crisis expanded social protection through temporary schemes, with rare reforms, and opened greater possibilities for future institutionalisation of new policies. We argue that the COVID-19 policy responses must be viewed as an unfinished agenda of expansion-driven policy responses to the 1997–1998 financial crisis. Still, these are different sets of measures from the previous crisis, which have been characterised by minimal systemic changes. The variegated responses of countries reveal hitherto unexplored policy implications for the Southeast Asian region.","PeriodicalId":44820,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development","volume":"2 1","pages":"294 - 317"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90316172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02185385.2022.2140703
Lan Nguyen, Minh Bui
ABSTRACT COVID-19 is not merely a global health crisis, but a comprehensive socio-economic disaster worldwide due to its multidimensional impacts and wide-range consequences for most countries. As a middle-income country in Southeast Asia, Vietnam has been suffering from the multifaceted consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and has made the most significant effort to respond. In response to challenges caused by Covid 19, Vietnam has been trying to introduce social protection policies to support the COVID-19 affected groups. The study conducted 58 in-depth interviews with different representatives from policymakers, policy implementors at different levels, and beneficiaries (the poor, persons with disabilities, informal/freelance workers and so on) to draws a picture of the pandemic impacts via the voices of different stakeholders. It then describes how the government and community’ social protection policies are responding to manage the pandemic and its multidimensional impacts. The paper highlights and discusses the lessons from Vietnamese experiences.
{"title":"Social protection response to COVID-19: Experiences and lessons from Vietnam","authors":"Lan Nguyen, Minh Bui","doi":"10.1080/02185385.2022.2140703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02185385.2022.2140703","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT COVID-19 is not merely a global health crisis, but a comprehensive socio-economic disaster worldwide due to its multidimensional impacts and wide-range consequences for most countries. As a middle-income country in Southeast Asia, Vietnam has been suffering from the multifaceted consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and has made the most significant effort to respond. In response to challenges caused by Covid 19, Vietnam has been trying to introduce social protection policies to support the COVID-19 affected groups. The study conducted 58 in-depth interviews with different representatives from policymakers, policy implementors at different levels, and beneficiaries (the poor, persons with disabilities, informal/freelance workers and so on) to draws a picture of the pandemic impacts via the voices of different stakeholders. It then describes how the government and community’ social protection policies are responding to manage the pandemic and its multidimensional impacts. The paper highlights and discusses the lessons from Vietnamese experiences.","PeriodicalId":44820,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development","volume":"272 1","pages":"278 - 293"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76557353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-17DOI: 10.1080/02185385.2022.2108127
C. Lee, S. Heo
ABSTRACT This study examines the effects of health-related quality of life (HRQoL), long-term care insurance (LTCI) infrastructure, and the interactions between HRQoL and LTCI infrastructure on suicidal ideation (SI) in older Korean adults. This study used data collected from the 2017 Korea Community Health Survey (CHS) and administrative data. Multilevel logistic regression analysis revealed that higher HRQoL significantly lowered the risk of SI, but LTCI infrastructure was not strongly associated with the risk of SI. Furthermore, the interaction effect of HRQoL and LTCI infrastructure was significantly associated with SI. These results suggest that LTCI infrastructure helps to reduce the risk of SI among older adults.
{"title":"Effects of health-related quality of life and long-term care insurance infrastructure on suicidal ideation among older Korean adults","authors":"C. Lee, S. Heo","doi":"10.1080/02185385.2022.2108127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02185385.2022.2108127","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study examines the effects of health-related quality of life (HRQoL), long-term care insurance (LTCI) infrastructure, and the interactions between HRQoL and LTCI infrastructure on suicidal ideation (SI) in older Korean adults. This study used data collected from the 2017 Korea Community Health Survey (CHS) and administrative data. Multilevel logistic regression analysis revealed that higher HRQoL significantly lowered the risk of SI, but LTCI infrastructure was not strongly associated with the risk of SI. Furthermore, the interaction effect of HRQoL and LTCI infrastructure was significantly associated with SI. These results suggest that LTCI infrastructure helps to reduce the risk of SI among older adults.","PeriodicalId":44820,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development","volume":"19 1","pages":"101 - 113"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78707712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-05DOI: 10.1080/02185385.2022.2092770
J. Cheung, G. Leung, Yick-Man Lam, J. Chan
ABSTRACT The ‘Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go’ relationship education and enhancement programme for families with teens was indigenised to help parents with preteens to lower their parenting pressure and to enhance parent–child communication. The evaluation of the intervention adopted a mixed method approach. 45 parents and 64 children were invited to fill out pre-test (T0), post-test (T1), and 2-month follow-up (T2) questionnaire. A total of 16 parent participants were involved in two focus groups. The findings indicated that participants’ parenting stress was lowered after the group intervention, and improvement in family relationships was observed in the aspects of communication, mutuality, and parental control. Children respondents were aware of the positive change in parents in terms of communication and statistically significant differences were found in the pre-test and 2-month follow-up. Parent participants highlighted that the prerequisites to become an accessible, responsive, and emotionally engaging parent was self-care and self-regulation.
{"title":"Emotionally focused therapy group intervention for parents of primary school students with parenting stress: an evaluation study in Hong Kong","authors":"J. Cheung, G. Leung, Yick-Man Lam, J. Chan","doi":"10.1080/02185385.2022.2092770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02185385.2022.2092770","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The ‘Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go’ relationship education and enhancement programme for families with teens was indigenised to help parents with preteens to lower their parenting pressure and to enhance parent–child communication. The evaluation of the intervention adopted a mixed method approach. 45 parents and 64 children were invited to fill out pre-test (T0), post-test (T1), and 2-month follow-up (T2) questionnaire. A total of 16 parent participants were involved in two focus groups. The findings indicated that participants’ parenting stress was lowered after the group intervention, and improvement in family relationships was observed in the aspects of communication, mutuality, and parental control. Children respondents were aware of the positive change in parents in terms of communication and statistically significant differences were found in the pre-test and 2-month follow-up. Parent participants highlighted that the prerequisites to become an accessible, responsive, and emotionally engaging parent was self-care and self-regulation.","PeriodicalId":44820,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development","volume":"1 1","pages":"64 - 81"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90197232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02185385.2022.2140704
Ijin Hong, Zaiping Yang
ABSTRACT This study takes a closer look at the reasons behind women’s exit and entry from the labour market before and after the impact of Covid-19 (2018–2020) in South Korea. By running a random effects probit regression on KLoWF panel data, we find that the pandemic crisis put at risk the employment levels of the less skilled, but we also notice considerable employment resilience. Ultimately, women’s labour market transitions during the Covid-19 pandemic highly depend on women’s understanding of their contribution in the public and private spheres and work-family arrangements.
{"title":"Women’s labour market transitions during COVID-19: division of gender roles and the gendered labour market in South Korea (2018–2020)","authors":"Ijin Hong, Zaiping Yang","doi":"10.1080/02185385.2022.2140704","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02185385.2022.2140704","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study takes a closer look at the reasons behind women’s exit and entry from the labour market before and after the impact of Covid-19 (2018–2020) in South Korea. By running a random effects probit regression on KLoWF panel data, we find that the pandemic crisis put at risk the employment levels of the less skilled, but we also notice considerable employment resilience. Ultimately, women’s labour market transitions during the Covid-19 pandemic highly depend on women’s understanding of their contribution in the public and private spheres and work-family arrangements.","PeriodicalId":44820,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development","volume":"73 1","pages":"200 - 212"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86377747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02185385.2022.2131617
Fang-Yi Huang, Jiun-Da Lin
ABSTRACT The association between women’s political empowerment and social spending in welfare regimes is well established, but research on the association with social protection responses to COVID-19 is just beginning. This paper looks at the association between women’s political empowerment index (WPEI) and the scopes of social protections found in individual countries. Poisson regression models were used with datasets from the Goble Database on Social Protection and Jobs Responses to COVID-19, World Development Indicators, and V-Dem to identify national and regional differences in social protection coverage. The findings indicate the countries with higher WPEI values have greater ranges of social protections. In particular, there is a significantly positive association between degree of women’s political empowerment in the form of civil society participation and social protection scope. Our results provide new evidence suggesting that increasing women’s civil society participation is a clear pathway to improving social protection scope.
{"title":"Women’s political empowerment and social protection responses to COVID-19","authors":"Fang-Yi Huang, Jiun-Da Lin","doi":"10.1080/02185385.2022.2131617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02185385.2022.2131617","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The association between women’s political empowerment and social spending in welfare regimes is well established, but research on the association with social protection responses to COVID-19 is just beginning. This paper looks at the association between women’s political empowerment index (WPEI) and the scopes of social protections found in individual countries. Poisson regression models were used with datasets from the Goble Database on Social Protection and Jobs Responses to COVID-19, World Development Indicators, and V-Dem to identify national and regional differences in social protection coverage. The findings indicate the countries with higher WPEI values have greater ranges of social protections. In particular, there is a significantly positive association between degree of women’s political empowerment in the form of civil society participation and social protection scope. Our results provide new evidence suggesting that increasing women’s civil society participation is a clear pathway to improving social protection scope.","PeriodicalId":44820,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development","volume":"78 1","pages":"213 - 227"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90490499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02185385.2022.2141848
Yeun-Wen Ku, Chung-Yang Yeh
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic has had daunting economic and social impacts on many aspects of human life, but these impacts have been unequally distributed, with the brunt of health and labour market risks falling on socio-economically disadvantaged individuals and families. We argue that the welfare state could help mitigate such social risks and facilitate social solidarity. Moreover, NGOs (and social groups) play a prominent and supplemental role in developing welfare states in the face of the pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic potentially raises an opportunity to rethink the current structures of the capitalist economy and the welfare state, and result in more ambitious reforms in East and Southeast Asian welfare states.
{"title":"Social policy responses and social development during and after the unequal pandemic","authors":"Yeun-Wen Ku, Chung-Yang Yeh","doi":"10.1080/02185385.2022.2141848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02185385.2022.2141848","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic has had daunting economic and social impacts on many aspects of human life, but these impacts have been unequally distributed, with the brunt of health and labour market risks falling on socio-economically disadvantaged individuals and families. We argue that the welfare state could help mitigate such social risks and facilitate social solidarity. Moreover, NGOs (and social groups) play a prominent and supplemental role in developing welfare states in the face of the pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic potentially raises an opportunity to rethink the current structures of the capitalist economy and the welfare state, and result in more ambitious reforms in East and Southeast Asian welfare states.","PeriodicalId":44820,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development","volume":"227 1","pages":"161 - 169"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75801140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02185385.2022.2131616
Xiaofang Wu, Zhongwei Sun, Jingwen Cheng
ABSTRACT Through an online survey from 2020, this study aims to investigate how labour market status and occupational factors shape the risk of wage drops resultant of the COVID-19 outbreak. Quantitative evidence shows the risk is amplified for lower-educated labourers working in administrative positions, and affiliated to the traditional service sector and foreign invested enterprises (FIE) and they are more likely to experience earning reduction. COVID-19 in China witnesses a significantly downward trend of labours` wage and general wage inequality has slightly eased. This study calls for policy shift in direct financial subsidies to workers to mitigate labours’ risk.
{"title":"Who suffers from COVID-19 shock? Labour market risk and wage inequality in China","authors":"Xiaofang Wu, Zhongwei Sun, Jingwen Cheng","doi":"10.1080/02185385.2022.2131616","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02185385.2022.2131616","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Through an online survey from 2020, this study aims to investigate how labour market status and occupational factors shape the risk of wage drops resultant of the COVID-19 outbreak. Quantitative evidence shows the risk is amplified for lower-educated labourers working in administrative positions, and affiliated to the traditional service sector and foreign invested enterprises (FIE) and they are more likely to experience earning reduction. COVID-19 in China witnesses a significantly downward trend of labours` wage and general wage inequality has slightly eased. This study calls for policy shift in direct financial subsidies to workers to mitigate labours’ risk.","PeriodicalId":44820,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development","volume":"32 1","pages":"170 - 183"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80726793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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