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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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}
Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02185385.2022.2134194
Viveka Ichikawa, Izumi Niki, Izumi Sakamoto
ABSTRACT The global COVID-19 pandemic exposed structural inequality perpetuated by neoliberalism. essential workers, including helping professionals, have experienced a high-stress level. This pilot study examined the challenges faced by social welfare workers in Japan during the pandemic. Japanese social welfare departments in municipal governments, which are primary providers of public assistance and social services, are staffed by government officers (GOs, permanent government employees) and non-regular frontline workers (NRs, hired on annual contracts, predominantly female, covering direct casework). Informed by narrative inquiries, five individual interviews of GOs and NRs were conducted. The thematic analysis highlighted the increased employment instability, individualisation, and powerlessness among NRs. NRs expressed intensified stress from the safety risk, long working hours, and insufficient organisational support. Stratified by different types of contracts, resultant tasks, and genders, NRs experienced intensified isolation, leading to burnout. The implications of working precariously in the pandemic under the neoliberal social welfare systems are discussed.
{"title":"Working precariously within the social welfare system in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic: Resilience without resistance among non-regular frontline workers","authors":"Viveka Ichikawa, Izumi Niki, Izumi Sakamoto","doi":"10.1080/02185385.2022.2134194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02185385.2022.2134194","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The global COVID-19 pandemic exposed structural inequality perpetuated by neoliberalism. essential workers, including helping professionals, have experienced a high-stress level. This pilot study examined the challenges faced by social welfare workers in Japan during the pandemic. Japanese social welfare departments in municipal governments, which are primary providers of public assistance and social services, are staffed by government officers (GOs, permanent government employees) and non-regular frontline workers (NRs, hired on annual contracts, predominantly female, covering direct casework). Informed by narrative inquiries, five individual interviews of GOs and NRs were conducted. The thematic analysis highlighted the increased employment instability, individualisation, and powerlessness among NRs. NRs expressed intensified stress from the safety risk, long working hours, and insufficient organisational support. Stratified by different types of contracts, resultant tasks, and genders, NRs experienced intensified isolation, leading to burnout. The implications of working precariously in the pandemic under the neoliberal social welfare systems are discussed.","PeriodicalId":44820,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77708815","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 : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1080/02185385.2022.2077816
Qiqi Chen, Yuhong Zhu
ABSTRACT While there is substantial empirical evidence on the adverse effects of childhood trauma experiences, less is known about whether and how those experiences are related to cyberbullying perpetration in adolescents. This study examined the potential effects of childhood trauma experiences on cyberbullying perpetration with consideration of the role of emotion dysregulation. Participants (N = 1305) were recruited from elementary and middle schools (ages 9–16) in Yiyang County, Jiangxi Province, China during 2019. Multi-phase logistic regression analysis was used to explore childhood trauma and emotion dysregulation as predictors of cyberbullying experiences. The results showed that both childhood trauma experiences and emotion dysregulation were positively related to cyberbullying perpetration, with the relationship between sexual abuse and cyber-perpetration showing the highest coefficient among forms of childhood trauma. These findings may provide valuable information for use in cyberbullying prevention/intervention research and practice by clarifying avenues for alleviating childhood trauma experiences among minors.
{"title":"Experiences of childhood trauma and cyberbullying perpetration among adolescents in China","authors":"Qiqi Chen, Yuhong Zhu","doi":"10.1080/02185385.2022.2077816","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02185385.2022.2077816","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT While there is substantial empirical evidence on the adverse effects of childhood trauma experiences, less is known about whether and how those experiences are related to cyberbullying perpetration in adolescents. This study examined the potential effects of childhood trauma experiences on cyberbullying perpetration with consideration of the role of emotion dysregulation. Participants (N = 1305) were recruited from elementary and middle schools (ages 9–16) in Yiyang County, Jiangxi Province, China during 2019. Multi-phase logistic regression analysis was used to explore childhood trauma and emotion dysregulation as predictors of cyberbullying experiences. The results showed that both childhood trauma experiences and emotion dysregulation were positively related to cyberbullying perpetration, with the relationship between sexual abuse and cyber-perpetration showing the highest coefficient among forms of childhood trauma. These findings may provide valuable information for use in cyberbullying prevention/intervention research and practice by clarifying avenues for alleviating childhood trauma experiences among minors.","PeriodicalId":44820,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78765949","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 : 2022-05-29DOI: 10.1080/02185385.2022.2048414
Jayoung Cho
ABSTRACT Previous studies have reported that food insecurity influences depression, with the reverse reported as well. The study explores the reciprocal causal relationship between food insecurity and depressive symptoms among impoverished Korean elderly. The data were derived from the 8th wave to the 10th wave of the Korea Welfare Panel Study. A total of 3,476 subjects aged 60 years or older were analysed. An auto-regressive cross-lagged model with three-year longitudinal data was conducted for the analysis. For all waves, the reciprocal causal relationships between food insecurity and depressive symptoms were examined. The findings have implications for gerontological policy and practice, especially for the Korean impoverished elderly.
{"title":"The longitudinal reciprocal relationship between food insecurity and depressive symptoms among Korean elderly who live in poverty: application of auto-regressive cross-lagged model","authors":"Jayoung Cho","doi":"10.1080/02185385.2022.2048414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02185385.2022.2048414","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Previous studies have reported that food insecurity influences depression, with the reverse reported as well. The study explores the reciprocal causal relationship between food insecurity and depressive symptoms among impoverished Korean elderly. The data were derived from the 8th wave to the 10th wave of the Korea Welfare Panel Study. A total of 3,476 subjects aged 60 years or older were analysed. An auto-regressive cross-lagged model with three-year longitudinal data was conducted for the analysis. For all waves, the reciprocal causal relationships between food insecurity and depressive symptoms were examined. The findings have implications for gerontological policy and practice, especially for the Korean impoverished elderly.","PeriodicalId":44820,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88593200","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 : 2022-05-03DOI: 10.1080/02185385.2022.2059777
Pei-Yuen Tsai
ABSTRACT This paper adopts the ‘Child Well-Being Study in Greater Taipei’ to examine factors associated with children’s screen use. This Study was conducted in 2017 and 2018 with 6,480 caregivers of primary school aged children. The hierarchical regression analysis shows that parent–child interaction and parents’ working time schedules are associated with children’s screen use. Based on the findings, this paper suggests that governments and social workers could provide courses and activities to promote parent–child interaction, encourage the implementation of flexible working time arrangements and offer childcare support for parents working atypical hours to reduce children’s excessive screen use.
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