Religion, Family, and Chinese Youth Development
Religion is a fundamental cultural factor profoundly influential on human mental health and behavioral choices, and, in addition, family is the most proximal and intimate socialization agent contributive to youth development. Religion, Family, and Chinese Youth Development explores how religious involvement of Chinese parents affects their psychological health and family socialization, which lead to various aspects of the development of Chinese youths.
Specifically, a structural relationship between religion, family socialization, and youth development was constructed theoretically and tested empirically in the Chinese context, which can portray the linked lives of religious involvement of Chinese parents, parental psychological health, family processes, parenting practices, the development of psychosocial maturity, and the internalizing and externalizing outcomes of Chinese youths. Undeniably, the findings of this book provide insightful social and policy implications for researchers and human service practitioners related to Chinese societies.
By clearly depicting and empirically testing the connections between religion, family, and Chinese youth development, the book can be a reference for clergy, family practitioners, researchers, policy makers, management of NGOs, and graduate students of social sciences.
Jerf W. K. Yeung holds a PhD from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research focuses on family and children, religion and health, and youth development, which has recently appeared in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly , Social Indicators Research , and Marriage & Family Review .
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Religion, Family, and Chinese Youth Development
An Empirical View
Jerf W. K. Yeung
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Names: Yeung, Jerf W. K., author.
Title: Religion, family, and Chinese youth development:
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Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. |
Series: Routledge studies in religion | Includes bibliographical
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Identifiers: LCCN 2020039455 (print) | LCCN 2020039456 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780367248871 (hbk) | ISBN 9780429284885 (ebk)
Subjects: LCSH: FamiliesChina. | YouthChina. | ChinaReligion.
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To my parents, third elder brother of my mother and his wife
Contents
Standardized effects of structural relationships from religious involvement of Chinese parents to family socialization in sample 1 of Chinese parentyouth dyads (Model 1a). |
Standardized effects of structural relationships from religious involvement of Chinese parents to family socialization in sample 2 of Chinese parentyouth dyads (Model 1b). |
Standardized effects of structural relationships from family socialization to negative internalizing and externalizing development of Chinese youths in sample 1 of Chinese parentyouth dyads (Model 2a). |
Standardized effects of structural relationships from family socialization to negative internalizing and externalizing development of Chinese youths in sample 2 of Chinese parentyouth dyads (Model 2b). |
Standardized effects of structural relationships from family socialization to positive internalizing and externalizing development of Chinese youths in sample 2 of Chinese parentyouth dyads (Model 2c). |
Standardized effects of structural relationships from religious involvement of Chinese parents to negative internalizing and externalizing development of Chinese youths in sample 1 of Chinese parentyouth dyads (Model 3a). |
Standardized effects of structural relationships from religious involvement of Chinese parents to negative internalizing and externalizing development of Chinese youths in sample 2 of Chinese parentyouth dyads (Model 3b). |
Standardized effects of structural relationships from religious involvement of Chinese parents to positive internalizing and externalizing development of Chinese youths in sample 2 of Chinese parentyouth dyads (Model 3c). |
Empirical religious studies conducted in Chinese societies investigating religion, family, and youth development |
A classification matrix of religious beliefs in Chinese societies by means of transcendence, Holy Scriptures, and organization |
Correlations of parental intrinsic religiosity, positive religious coping, parental optimism, and depressive symptoms |
Correlations of parental general religiousness, parental subjective happiness, gratitude and emotional distress |
Effects of parental intrinsic religiosity on parental optimism and depressive symptoms |