Social media use and depressive symptoms among Hong Kong young adults during the period of 2019 extradition bill controversy
Social media use and depressive symptoms among Hong Kong young adults during the period of 2019 extradition bill controversy
Letter to the Editor: In March 2019, the Hong Kong government has proposed a highly controversial bill on amending the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Ordinance, commonly known as the extradition bill. The introduction of this bill induced enormous controversies in the Hong Kong society due to the possible extradition to China. Before the second reading of the bill (scheduled on June 12, 2019), more than 1 million Hong Kong people demonstrated on June 9 daytime to show their concerns. On June 12, a few thousand protestors attempted to block the traffic around Legislative Council to the second reading of the bill. After the government had declined to withdraw the bill, another demonstration on June 16 with 2 million protestors expressed their concerns again.
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Lee, Paul H.
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1 October 2019
Lee, Paul H.
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Lee, Paul H.
(2019)
Social media use and depressive symptoms among Hong Kong young adults during the period of 2019 extradition bill controversy.
Asian Journal of Psychiatry, 45 (10), .
(doi:10.1016/j.ajp.2019.08.012).
Abstract
Letter to the Editor: In March 2019, the Hong Kong government has proposed a highly controversial bill on amending the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Ordinance, commonly known as the extradition bill. The introduction of this bill induced enormous controversies in the Hong Kong society due to the possible extradition to China. Before the second reading of the bill (scheduled on June 12, 2019), more than 1 million Hong Kong people demonstrated on June 9 daytime to show their concerns. On June 12, a few thousand protestors attempted to block the traffic around Legislative Council to the second reading of the bill. After the government had declined to withdraw the bill, another demonstration on June 16 with 2 million protestors expressed their concerns again.
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Published date: 1 October 2019
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The University Grants Committee of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China , provided financial support in the form of a grant from the the General Research Fund Early Career Scheme (Ref: PolyU 251056/16M). The sponsor had no role in designing or conducting this research.
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