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Introduction -- Resilience Process -- Personal Background Bases for the Resilience Process -- Societal Impacts on Resilience -- Peer Influences on the Resilience Process -- Practical Bases for Resilience -- Social Capital Bases for Resilience -- Developmental Conditions for Resilience -- Conclusion.

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Life Quality, Experiences, and Practices: Identification -- Chapter 3. Life Quality Production: Theory -- Chapter 4. Life Quality Production: Findings -- Chapter 5. Life Experience Production: Theory -- Chapter 6. Life Experience Production: Findings -- Chapter 7. Life Practice Production: Theory -- Chapter 8. Life Practice Production: Findings -- Chapter 9. Conclusion.

This book addresses the life quality of the average adult in the world, based on international data weighted according to national population size. It rests on the theoretical framework of analytic-functionalism to explain statics and dynamics in the production of life quality. The statics means the influences of personal and national factors on life quality, whereas the dynamics mean the changes in the influences over time. This approach elucidates life quality at the personal level rather than at the national level, which overlooks what happens to the average person living in the world. The approach involves a broad view of the production of life quality, including experiences, practices, and appraisals of life. This production also involves personal background characteristics and the national indicators of modernization, globalization, and environmental issues. Knowledge about the production is helpful for policymakers, researchers, students, and other people to upgrade life quality. Such knowledge is valuable because it is up-to-date, generalizable, and sensible based on the analytic-functionalist theoretical framework and statistical estimation.

chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 Serving society: theory -- chapter 3 Serving society: findings -- chapter 4 Sustaining institutions: theory -- chapter 5 Sustaining institutions: findings -- chapter 6 Challenging institutions: theory -- chapter 7 Challenging institutions: findings -- chapter 8 Conclusion.

PurposeThe study aims to examine the effectiveness of socially available measures such as concessive messaging, deradicalizing messaging, punishment, and reward in deradicalization, which remains theoretically debatable and empirically unclear and concern social policymakers.Design/methodology/approachThis study surveyed 4,385 Chinese youths in Hong Kong, a special administrative region of China, to clarify the effectiveness.FindingsResults show that receiving concessive messages about radicalism raised radicalism in 2020. Meanwhile, receiving deradicalization messages and rewards reduced radicalism. Receiving punishments for radicalism reduced radicalism when radicalism in 2019 had been high.Originality/valueThese results support social learning theory and imply its usefulness for deradicalization. That is, deradicalization can rely on messaging countering as opposed to conceding to radicalism and reinforcement for deradicalization and against radicalism.

Summary Despite the common basis of cognitive theory for cognitive counseling and social competence development, no research has charted the effectiveness of the counseling in raising social competence in young female residents of the residential service. To examine the effectiveness, this study analyzed data gleaned from monthly surveys of young female residents and their social workers regarding the latter's daily life cognitive counseling. The data consisted of 391 cases pairing the female residents and social workers in Hong Kong over 33 months. Findings The cases afforded a cross-lagged analysis showing the raising of the girl's social competence by the worker's cognitive counseling earlier in the previous month. In substantiating this raising, the analysis also indicated that earlier social competence did not affect the counseling. Applications The findings imply the worth of promoting the social worker's daily life cognitive counseling to advance girl residents' social competence. Such counseling is particularly helpful to girls with lower education, who are lower in social competence.

Owing to the paucity of data demonstrating workers' reactions to work restructuring, the study examines possible reactions in terms of job performance, attendance at training, and voicing of discontent. It predicts the effects of work restructuring and background characteristics with reference to the exit-voice-loyalty model and demoralization theory. A telephone survey of a random sample of households collected data from 1176 workers in Hong Kong. Supportive of the demoralization theory, work restructuring over the previous past year appeared to reduce workers' intended job performance, attendance at training, and voicing of discontent. These findings hold for workers with various characteristics and restructuring in work outcomes, work processes, and staffing. Demoralization theory offers a reasonable explanation of the findings regarding the negative effects of work restructuring. In addition, income and social class have profound influences on workers' reactions.