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Chu L, Fung HH. AGE DIFFERENCES IN THE EMOTIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL EXPERIENCE OF LONELINESS: A TIME-SAMPLING STUDY. Innov Aging 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/geroni/igy023.2810] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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- L Chu
- The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
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- The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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Fang Y, Wong ALY, Fung HH, Woo J. AN INTERVENTION TO REDUCE LONELINESS AND INCREASE MEANING IN LIFE AMONG LONELY OLDER ADULTS. Innov Aging 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/geroni/igy023.2812] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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- Y Fang
- The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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- The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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- The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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- The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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Lay JC, Fung HH, Jiang D, Mahmood A, Graf P, Hoppmann CA. SOLITUDE IN SOCIAL CONTEXT: ACCULTURATION, DESIRE, AND TIME IN SOLITUDE SHAPE SOLITUDE-LONELINESS LINKS. Innov Aging 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/geroni/igy023.2809] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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- J C Lay
- University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR
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- Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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- Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Fang Y, Fung HH. UNDERSTANDING AND MANAGING LONELINESS IN OLD AGE: MULTI-METHOD PERSPECTIVES. Innov Aging 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/geroni/igy023.2808] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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- Y Fang
- The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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- The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin
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Fung HH, Lu M, Tse DCK. DEATH ACCEPTANCE AND RELIGIOUS BELIEF PROMOTE DEATH PREPARATION IN OLD AGE ONLY IN GERMAN AND U.S., BUT NOT IN HONG KONG. Innov Aging 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/geroni/igy023.1544] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- H H Fung
- The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
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- The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR
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- Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, USA
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Fung HH, Isaacowitz DM. EAST MEETS WEST: MAKING PREPARATIONS FOR OLD AGE. Innov Aging 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/geroni/igy023.1543] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- H H Fung
- The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin
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Tsang V, Fung HH. “THE ONLY THING WE HAVE TO FEAR IS FEAR ITSELF”: A LIFESPAN STUDY ON FEAR OF LONELINESS AND WELL-BEING ACROSS CULTURES. Innov Aging 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/geroni/igy023.2811] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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- V Tsang
- The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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- The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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Chan DK, Lonsdale C, Fung HH. Influences of coaches, parents, and peers on the motivational patterns of child and adolescent athletes. Scand J Med Sci Sports 2011; 22:558-68. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0838.2010.01277.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Li T, Fung HH, Isaacowitz DM. The Role of Dispositional Reappraisal in the Age-Related Positivity Effect. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 2010; 66:56-60. [DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbq074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Yeung DY, Fung HH, Lang FR. Gender differences in social network characteristics and psychological well-being among Hong Kong Chinese: the role of future time perspective and adherence to Renqing. Aging Ment Health 2007; 11:45-56. [PMID: 17164157 DOI: 10.1080/13607860600735820] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Gender differences in social network characteristics are well documented in the literature. Socio-emotional selectivity theory emphasizes the importance of future time perception on selection of social partners whereas cultural studies stress the roles of Renqing (relationship orientation) on social interactions. This study examined the effects of future time perspective and adherence to Renqing on social network characteristics, and their associations with psychological well-being of 321 Chinese men and women, aged 28-91 years. Results showed that adherence to Renqing partially accounted for gender differences in the number of relatives, even after controlling for the effects of extraversion and structural factors. Moreover, women, but not men, with lower adherence to Renqing and more limited future time perspective were found to be happier when they had fewer close friends in their social networks.
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- D Y Yeung
- Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
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Socioemotional selectivity theory holds that as people recognize the inevitable constraint of time imposed by mortality, their social goals change, motivating them to limit social contacts to those with whom they are emotionally close. This theory was tested among Taiwanese and Mainland Chinese. As predicted, results showed that older adults (aged 60-90 years) in both cultures were more likely than younger adults (aged 18-30 years) to prefer familiar social partners who were most likely to provide emotionally close social interactions. Mainland Chinese, who as a group have shorter actuarial life expectancy, were more likely to prefer familiar social partners than were Taiwanese. These age and cultural differences were eliminated when differences in perceived time were statistically controlled for.
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- H H Fung
- Department of Psychology, Stanford University, USA.
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Fung HH, Carstensen LL, Lang FR. Age-related patterns in social networks among European Americans and African Americans: implications for socioemotional selectivity across the life span. Int J Aging Hum Dev 2001; 52:185-206. [PMID: 11407486 DOI: 10.2190/1abl-9be5-m0x2-lr9v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 124] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Socioemotional selectivity theory contends that as people become increasingly aware of limitations on future time, they are increasingly motivated to be more selective in their choice of social partners, favoring emotionally meaningful relationships over peripheral ones. The theory hypothesizes that because age is negatively associated with time left in life, the social networks of older people contain fewer peripheral social partners than those of their younger counterparts. This study tested the hypothesis among African Americans and European Americans, two ethnic groups whose social structural resources differ. Findings confirm the hypothesis. Across a wide age range (18 to 94 years old) and among both ethnic groups, older people report as many emotionally close social partners but fewer peripheral social partners in their networks as compared to their younger counterparts. Moreover, a greater percentage of very close social partners in social networks is related to lower levels of happiness among the young age group, but not among the older age groups. Implications of findings for adaptive social functioning across the life span are discussed.
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- H H Fung
- Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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Socioemotional selectivity theory holds that as people recognize the inevitable constraint of time imposed by mortality, their social goals change, motivating them to limit social contacts to those with whom they are emotionally close. This theory was tested among Taiwanese and Mainland Chinese. As predicted, results showed that older adults (aged 60-90 years) in both cultures were more likely than younger adults (aged 18-30 years) to prefer familiar social partners who were most likely to provide emotionally close social interactions. Mainland Chinese, who as a group have shorter actuarial life expectancy, were more likely to prefer familiar social partners than were Taiwanese. These age and cultural differences were eliminated when differences in perceived time were statistically controlled for.
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- H H Fung
- Department of Psychology, Stanford University, USA.
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Socioemotional selectivity theory holds that the reliable decline in social contact in later life is due, in part, to older people's preferences for emotionally meaningful social partners and that such preferences are due not to age, per se, but to perceived limitations on time. Confirming the theory, in both the United States and Hong Kong, older people showed a preference for familiar social partners, whereas younger people did not show this preference. However, when asked to imagine an expansive future, older people's bias for familiar social partners disappeared. Conversely, in the face of a hypothesized constraint on time, both younger and older people preferred familiar social partners. Moreover, social preferences in Hong Kong differed before and after the 1997 handover of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China, which was construed as a sociopolitical time constraint. One year prior to the handover, only older people displayed preferences for familiar partners. Two months before the handover, both age groups showed such preferences. One year after the handover, once again, only older Hong Kong people preferred familiar social partners.
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- H H Fung
- Department of Psychology, Stanford University, California 94305, USA.
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Socioemotional selectivity theory holds that the reliable decline in social contact in later life is due, in part, to older people's preferences for emotionally meaningful social partners and that such preferences are due not to age, per se, but to perceived limitations on time. Confirming the theory, in both the United States and Hong Kong, older people showed a preference for familiar social partners, whereas younger people did not show this preference. However, when asked to imagine an expansive future, older people's bias for familiar social partners disappeared. Conversely, in the face of a hypothesized constraint on time, both younger and older people preferred familiar social partners. Moreover, social preferences in Hong Kong differed before and after the 1997 handover of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China, which was construed as a sociopolitical time constraint. One year prior to the handover, only older people displayed preferences for familiar partners. Two months before the handover, both age groups showed such preferences. One year after the handover, once again, only older Hong Kong people preferred familiar social partners.
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- H H Fung
- Department of Psychology, Stanford University, California 94305, USA.
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Haight WL, Wang XL, Fung HH, Williams K, Mintz J. Universal, developmental, and variable aspects of young children's play: a cross-cultural comparison of pretending at home. Child Dev 1999; 70:1477-88. [PMID: 10621968 DOI: 10.1111/1467-8624.00107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Using longitudinal data from five Irish American families in the United States and nine Chinese families in Taiwan, in conjunction with an emerging body of evidence in the cultural psychology literature, we propose universal, culturally variable, and developmental dimensions of young children's pretend play. Possible universal dimensions include the use of objects, and the predominantly social nature of pretend play. Developmental dimensions include increases in the proportion of social pretend play initiated by the child, the proportion of partner initiations elaborated upon by the child, and caregivers' use of pretend play initiations to serve other, nonplay social functions. Culturally variable dimensions include the centrality of objects, the participation of specific play partners, the extent of child initiations of social pretend play with caregivers, the various functions of social pretend play in interaction, and specific themes. These findings raise the theoretical issue of how universal and variable dimensions of pretend play interact in specific communities to create distinctive development pathways.
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- W L Haight
- School of Social Work, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801, USA.
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Chiu HF, Lam LC, Chi I, Leung T, Li SW, Law WT, Chung DW, Fung HH, Kan PS, Lum CM, Ng J, Lau J. Prevalence of dementia in Chinese elderly in Hong Kong. Neurology 1998; 50:1002-9. [PMID: 9566386 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.50.4.1002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 149] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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This study examines the prevalence of dementia in elderly Chinese aged 70 years and older in Hong Kong using a two-phase design. In phase 1, 1,034 elderly were interviewed with the Cantonese version of the Mini-Mental State Examination. Those who scored below the cutoff points and a subsample of those with scores in the normal range were interviewed in phase 2 to identify those with dementia. The overall weighted prevalence of dementia in our subjects was 6.1 +/- 0.7%, which is at the lower end of the range of rates reported in whites. Alzheimer's disease (AD) accounted for 64.6% and vascular dementia, 29.3%. Our results, together with previous studies in Chinese populations, suggest that the rates of AD in Chinese are low compared with those in whites. Substantial differences are possible in the epidemiology of dementia across cultures related to interactions of genetic and environmental factors.
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- H F Chiu
- Department of Psychiatry, Chinese University of Hong Kong
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