Publications

Journal Articles

Enhancing Positive Outcomes in Youth and the Community (EPYC)

Disruptive behaviors, antisocial attitudes, and aggression in young offenders: Comparison of Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) typologies
Child Abuse & Neglect, 141.
Oei, A., Li., D., Chu, C.M., Ng, I., Hoo, E., & Ruby, K. (2023)
Child maltreatment and protective assets in the development of internalising and eternalising problems: A study of youth offenders
Journal of Adolescence, 91, 35-47.
Li, D., Ng, N., Chu, C.M., Oei, A. Chng, G., & Ruby, K. (2021)
Relationship between Adverse Childhood Experiences and substance use in youth offenders in Singapore
Child Abuse & Neglect, 117.
Oei., A., Chu, C.M., Li, D., Ng, N., Yeo, C., & Ruby, K. (2021)

In-Work Poverty and the Challenges of Getting by among the Young (IWP)

Time poverty among the young working poor: A pathway from low wage to psychological well-being through work-to-family-conflict
Journal of Family and Economic Issues.
Ng, I. Y. H., Tan, Z. H., & Chung, G. (2024).
Separate lives, uncertain futures: Does Covid-19 align or differentiate the lives of low- and higher-wage young workers?
Applied Research in Quality of Life.
Ng, I. Y. H., Tan, Z. H., Chua, V., & Cheong, A. (2022)

Towards Universal Digital Access

Study on Low-Income Households with Debt

Other Journal Articles by SSR researchers

Cyberbullying victimization and mental health symptoms among children and adolescents: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies
Trauma, Violence, and Abuse.
Lee, J., Choo, H., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Q., Cheung, H. S., & Ang, R. P. (2025). Advance online publication on 19 January 2025.
Secure base script knowledge and friendship quality as protective factors for bullying and victimization in elementary school
Attachment and Human Development.
Cheung, H. S., Khong, J. Z. N., Lee, J., Liu, D., & Ang, R. P. (2024). Advance online publication on 17 Dec 2024.
Young adults, mental health and help-seeking: What difficulties do they face? A Singapore-based study.
Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development.
Chua, Y. Z., & Lee, J. (2024)
Mixed evidence concerning the effects of the hopeful mindset among mother and child in low-income families in Singapore.
Applied Developmental Science.
Tong, E. M. W., Lee, J., Goh, E. C. L. (2024)
Umbrella review of meta-analyses on the risk factors, protective factors, consequences, and interventions of cyberbullying victimisation.
Nature Human Behavior.
TKasturiratna, S. K. T. A., Hartanto, A, Chen, C. H. Y., Tong, E. M. W., & Majeed, N. M. (2024)
Associations of childhood adversity with emotional well-being and educational achievement: A review and meta-analysis
GeckHong Yeo, Jennifer E. Lansford, Matthew J. Hirshberg, Eddie M.W. Tong. (2023)
An exploratory study of teachers’ metalanguage use to support student writing in science: Foregrounding the science-language connections
Lay Hoon Seah. (2023)

Snippet

2025

Issue 1, March 2025

Understanding the Work Expectations of Youths: What Insights Can We Glean from the Sparse Academic Literature?

2024

Issue 3, October 2024

Issue 2, June 2024

Issue 1, February 2024

Reflections on a Collaborative Inquiry Approach to Evaluating the Brotherhood Programme
Exploring Home Care Nurses' Perspectives on Psychosocial and Spiritual Needs in Palliative Care: A Qualitative Study at a Hospice in Singapore

Sharing from the Local Outreach to Suicide Survivors (LOSS) Programme
Growing Cultural Competence in Counselling and Social Work

Co-operatives in Singapore’s Social Service Sector
Unpacking Credentialism and its Impacts on the Young Working Poor in Singapore

2023

Issue 3, October 2023

Issue 2, June 2023

Issue 1, February 2023

Bittersweet Fostering: How Foster Parents in Singapore Experience and Cope with
Stress
An Exploratory Study into the Lived Experience of Families Living in Poverty and
Receiving Formal Assistance from the Family Service Centre

The Boons, The Banes and The Bridge of Community-Centric Practice (CCP): Bridging the Dichotomy of Community Participation and Casework Interventions
Towards a More Holistic Understanding on Bereavement

Community and Social Development in the Post-Pandemic Era: Response, Recovery and Rebuilding by Beyond Social Services
Associations between Trauma Symptomatology and Socioemotional-behavioural Difficulties Among Children from a Community-Based Student Care Population in Singapore

2022

Issue 3, October 2022

Issue 2, June 2022

Issue 1, March 2022

Time Poverty and its Impact on Rest among People Living in Poverty
Poor Sleep, Poor Me, Poor Children: Lived Experiences of Sleep among Socio-Economically Disadvantaged Families

The Design and Development of Interventions: An Application to an After-school Program by CampusImpact for Disadvantaged Families in Singapore
Research Skills & Implementation Research for Social Services Mentoring Programmes: Project Abstracts

Minority Stress, Community Connectedness and Mental Health: A Study of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Young Adults (LGB) in Singapore
News Media Representations of Social Service Agencies in Singapore during COVID-19 Pandemic – A Corpus Linguistics Approach

2021

Issue 4, November 2021

Issue 3, August 2021

Issue 2, May 2021

Issue 1, February 2021

• The Social Capital and Familial Well-being of Low-Income Single-Parent Families in Singapore: Preliminary Research Report

• The Call for Trauma-Informed Community Development: Becoming Human, Building Healthier Communities – Why a Trauma-Informed Community Development is What We Need Right Now

• Trauma-Informed Research Framework: A Research Guide

• “Hello, can you hear me?” Understanding Clients’ Experience with Phone/video Counselling in the COVID-19 Pandemic

• Is Ethnography Still Relevant Today?

• What Makes an Ethnographer? Reflections from a Participant Observer in Singapore

• A Summary of the 'Mind the Gap' Initiative

• MTG – An Imaginative and Progressive Opportunity to Support Families

• Collaboration, Co-creation and Collective Impact in a Crisis

• Responding to Scarcity as We ‘Mind the Gap’

• Summary of Event: ‘Powerty’, In Commemoration of the International Day of Eradication of Poverty

• Does Information Affect Singaporeans’ Views on Inequality and Policy Preferences? Evidence from a Randomised Survey Experiment

2020

• Definitions and Measurements of Poverty 2020
Note: The updated appendix can be viewed via this link.

• Will Poor Work Get Poorer after the Pandemic?

• Implementation Study for a Pilot Training-coaching Job Support Programme for Ex-offenders

• Mixed Methods Research: An Introduction

• Planning and Evaluating Youth Programmes in Singapore: Practitioner’s Experience Using the ACT!SG Framework and a Review of the Strategies Proposed

• Health Knowledge or Affordability: Can Low-income Households Adopt Healthy Diets?

• Why do We Need Realist Evaluation?

• What are Systematic Reviews and How are They Useful?

2019