scholarly journals Space and personal contacts: Cross-group interaction between mainland and local university students in Hong Kong

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoli Tian
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
University Students ◽  
Group Interaction ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Daily Routine ◽  
Group Interactions ◽  
Mainland Chinese ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Group Members ◽  
External Forces

Despite sharing physical space that supports contact with out-group members and institutional arrangements that encourage cross-group interaction, many university students still congregate within their own groups. To explain this phenomenon, this study examines the micro-level social processes that prevent or facilitate intergroup interaction. A qualitative study of Mainland Chinese and local university students in Hong Kong reveals that students lack opportunities for mutually engaging experiences across multiple points in time due to fragmented daily living space, defended interpersonal space, and politicized online space, which contribute to the absence of cross-group interactions. Cross-group friendships depend on external forces to remove inhibitions, which then allow emotional bonding. This study contributes to the understanding of cross-group interaction by pointing out the importance of daily routine activities and mutually engaging experiences in influencing cross-group interaction among students.

A Randomized Controlled Trial of Cognitive Behavioral Group Prevention Program for Mainland Chinese University Students in Hong Kong

2020 ◽  
pp. 104973152096218
Author(s):  
Jia-Yan Pan ◽  
Shengquan Ye ◽  
Petrus Yat-Nam Ng ◽  
Lucy Lu
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
University Students ◽  
Prevention Program ◽  
Chinese Students ◽  
Cognitive Behavioral ◽  
Mainland Chinese ◽  
Chinese University ◽  
Behavioral Group ◽  
Chinese University Students ◽  
Experimental Group

Purpose: This study developed a culturally appropriate cognitive behavioral group prevention program for Mainland Chinese university students in Hong Kong and tested its effectiveness. Method: A total of 74 Chinese students were recruited and randomly assigned to an 8-week cognitive behavior prevention program (experimental group) or a waiting list control (WLC) group. Results: Compared with the WLC group, participants in the experimental group significantly reduced psychological distress, acculturative stress, negative emotions, and negative thoughts and increased positive emotions, positive thoughts, and postmigration growth, with medium to large effect sizes. Upon immediate completion of the program, about 46% and 30% of the participants in the experimental group and WLC group, respectively, were classified as non-at-risk cases for developing mental health problems. Discussion: The positive intervention effects and clinical implication of cultural adaptation of cognitive behavioral group therapy to Chinese students are discussed.

scholarly journals Inter-Group Relations and Support for Democratization: Evidence from Hong Kong

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tak Huen Chau ◽  
Junyan Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
University Students ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Observational Evidence ◽  
Group Relations ◽  
Mainland Chinese ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
Ordinary Citizens

What drives ordinary citizens to participate in costly pro-democracy endeavors? Conventional theories of democratization emphasize the economic or political conflicts between citizens and elites. This article suggests a different mechanism of mobilization based on inter-group relations. We argue that as a pro-majoritarian institution, democracy may be sought after by members of a disenfranchised majority as a way to protect their interests and identity against perceived economic or political threats posed by certain minority outgroups. We evaluate this argument by drawing evidence from Hong Kong, a city that has recently witnessed major waves of pro-democracy uprisings. Two experimental studies on local university students reveal that subjects' attitudes toward the mainland Chinese visitors and immigrants are causally related to their support for democratization. Observational evidence from surveys and elections further shows that pro-democracy attitudes are stronger in areas that recently experienced a large influx of mainland Chinese. These findings underscore the powerful role of group-based sentiments in episodes of democratization.

scholarly journals Motivation and perception of Hong Kong university students about social media news

Comunicar ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (67) ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiuyi Kong ◽  
Kelly-Yee Lai-Ku ◽  
Liping Deng ◽  
Apple-Chung Yan-Au
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
University Students ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
News Media ◽  
Daily Routine ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Redes Sociales ◽  
High Level ◽  
News Use

With the prevalence of social media in a digital age, accessing news on social media has become a daily routine of university students’ lives. However, little research has been done to examine their social media news use in detail, especially in Asian countries. To fill this gap, we aimed to examine what motivated university students to seek news on social media, to what extent they perceived they were in control of the influences of news, and whether news motives were related to their levels of news media literacy across three domains: (a) authors and audiences; (b) messages and meaning, and (c) representation and reality. One hundred and forty-seven university students from a university in Hong Kong participated. Among the four news motives, socializing was the most powerful predictor for news use on social media. Most students believed they were in control of news influences and demonstrated a high level of news media literacy, and those who believed themselves to be in control of news influences showed a higher level of news media literacy. In this sense, high news-literate students were more likely to seek news for socializing as compared to their low news-literate counterparts. Insights on educating students to use social media in a positive and smart way were discussed. Con la prevalencia de las redes sociales en la era digital, acceder a las noticias en redes sociales se ha convertido en una rutina cotidiana en la vida de los universitarios. Sin embargo, se ha realizado mínima investigación sobre el uso de noticias en redes sociales, especialmente en los países asiáticos. Para colmar esta laguna, pretendemos examinar qué motivó a los universitarios a buscar noticias en redes sociales, en qué medida percibían que controlaban las influencias noticieras, y si las motivaciones noticieras se relacionaban con su nivel de alfabetismo mediático en tres dominios: a) autores y audiencias; b) mensajes y significados, y c) representación y realidad. Participaron 147 estudiantes de una universidad de Hong Kong. Entre las cuatro motivaciones, la socialización fue el indicador más poderoso. La mayoría de los estudiantes creían que podían controlar la influencia noticiera, demostrando un alto alfabetismo mediático. Los estudiantes con alto nivel de alfabetismo mediático son más propensos a buscar noticias para socializar, en comparación con las contrapartes con bajo nivel de alfabetismo. Se debatieron perspectivas sobre cómo educar a los estudiantes para emplear de una forma positiva e inteligente las redes sociales.

scholarly journals Multiculturalism, Culture Mixing, and Prejudice: Effects of Priming Chinese Diversity Models Among Hong Kong University Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Tian-Fang Ye ◽  
Emma E. Buchtel
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
University Students ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Intergroup Attitudes ◽  
Mainland Chinese ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Chinese Study ◽  
Priming Condition ◽  
Majority Culture ◽  
New Evidence

In two studies, we investigated how Hong Kong university students reacted to descriptions of China as multicultural vs. assimilatory, examining effects on emotions, prejudice toward Mainland Chinese, attitudes toward Hong Kong/China culture mixing, and cultural identities. Study 1 compared a multicultural priming condition to a control condition and found that the multiculturalism prime significantly reduced desire to socially distance from Mainland Chinese. Study 2 compared multiculturalism, assimilation, or control primes’ effects, and found that the multiculturalism prime, through increased positive emotions, indirectly reduced social distancing from Mainland Chinese and disgust toward culture mixing, and increased Chinese ethnic identity and multicultural identity styles; the assimilation prime had the opposite indirect effects through increasing negative emotions. Results show new evidence of the importance of emotion in how non-immigrant regional groups, who are both minority and majority culture members, react to different diversity models. Multicultural frames increased positive emotions, with downstream positive effects on both intergroup attitudes and integrated identities.

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