Chan Gloria Hongyee
City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Front Psychiatry. 2019 Apr 23;10:229. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00229. eCollection 2019.
This study examines the effect of employment on delinquent behavior among young people in "hidden situations". Both quantitative and qualitative methods were used, and 588 young people in these hidden situations were investigated. Results showed that some of them had employment; their employment status constituted a mediating effect on preventing them from being involved in delinquent behavior. Also, participants who had work explained the reasons for not being involved in delinquent behavior. These results reflect that whether young people in hidden situation involve in delinquent behavior depends on their employment rather than their hidden behavior itself. The implication is that practitioners should respect the youths' self-preferred choice of employment and even advocate a revision of the definition of employment in Hong Kong.
本研究考察了就业对“隐蔽处境”下年轻人犯罪行为的影响。研究采用了定量和定性方法，对588名处于这些隐蔽处境的年轻人进行了调查。结果显示，他们中的一些人有工作；他们的就业状况对防止他们参与犯罪行为起到了中介作用。此外，有工作的参与者解释了不参与犯罪行为的原因。这些结果表明，处于隐蔽处境的年轻人是否参与犯罪行为取决于他们的就业情况，而非其隐蔽处境本身。这意味着从业者应尊重年轻人对就业的自主选择，甚至倡导修订香港的就业定义。
