Social policies and theories on quality of life under COVID-19: in search of the missing links

DTL Shek, JTY Leung, L Tan - Applied Research in Quality of Life, 2023 - Springer
COVID-19 has generated many negative impacts on the family, including impaired
psychological well-being of family members (parents and children) and family processes …

The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Hong Kong nursing students' mental health and quality of life

MSY Hung, WWM Ng, EKY Choi - International journal of environmental …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Evidence shows that university students, especially healthcare students, experienced
considerable health impacts during COVID-19. This study examined Hong Kong general …

Profiles and predictors of mental health of university students in Hong Kong under the COVID-19 pandemic

DTL Shek, W Chai, X Li, D Dou - Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
This study investigated the mental health problems of university students in Hong Kong and
related sociodemographic and psychosocial predictors under the pandemic. A total of 978 …

Chinese college students' physical-exercise behavior, negative emotions, and their correlation during the COVID-19 outbreak

SS Han, B Li, YZ Ke, GX Wang, SQ Meng, YX Li… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Background: In the period of the COVID-19 pandemic, the level of college students' physical
exercise, the detection rate of negative emotions, and their correlation should attract …

Social networking use, mental health, and quality of life of Hong Kong adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic

L Yu, M Du - Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background During the COVID-19 pandemic, adolescents' use of social networking
sites/apps has surged, and their mental health and quality of life have also been significantly …

Risk factors and protective factors of internet addiction in university students during the pandemic: implications for prevention and treatment

DTL Shek, W Chai, K Zhou - … journal of environmental research and public …, 2023 - mdpi.com
While the prevalence rates of Internet addiction (IA) amongst young people during the
pandemic are disturbing, few studies have investigated the risk and protective factors of IA in …

Stress and depressive symptoms in university students in Hong Kong under the pandemic: Moderating effect of positive psychological attributes

DTL Shek, W Chai, T Wong, K Zhou - Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction There are very few studies examining the psychological well-being of university
students in Hong Kong under the COVID-19 pandemic. Besides COVID-19-related stress …

Socio-demographic and mental health correlates of internet addiction amongst Hong Kong university students under COVID-19

DTL Shek, W Chai, D Dou, L Tan, T Wong… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Regarding the problem of Internet addiction (IA) amongst university students
under the pandemic, there are several research gaps. Firstly, few studies have examined IA …

Network Structure among Optimism, Social Interaction, and Psychological Wellbeing during COVID-19 Lockdown: Findings from Four UK Cohort Studies

TH Liu, Y Xia, Z Ma - Applied Research in Quality of Life, 2023 - Springer
Though prior studies have found that optimism and social interactions are negatively
associated with psychological distress during the COVID-19 situation, they have not …

[HTML][HTML] Mental health profiles and the related socio-demographic predictors in Hong Kong university students under the COVID-19 pandemic: a latent class analysis

W Chai, DTL Shek - Psychiatry research, 2024 - Elsevier
While the COVID-19 pandemic has brought about significant challenges to mental health of
university students, there is limited research in this area. Particularly, few studies examined …