Full Time Faculty
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Rita Jing-Ann Chou, PhD
Assistant Professor
DeSaussure 322
College of Social Work
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
Phone: (803) 777-9265
Fax: (803) 777-3498
e-mail: rjchou@sc.edu
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Educational Background:
PhD (Social Welfare), University of Wisconsin-Madison
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Aging and Mental Retardation Research, Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison
MSSW, University of Wisconsin-Madison
PhD (Anthropology), State University of New York at Stony Brook
BA (English), National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
Research Interests:
Aging; Health Disparities; Long-Term Care; Quality of Life; Job Satisfaction; Older Workers; Older Asian-Americans; Aging in China and Taiwan; International Social Work.
Selected Publications:
Chou, R. J., & Robert, S. A. (In print). Workplace support, role overload, and job satisfaction of direct care workers in assisted living. The Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
Chou, R. J. Organizational justice and turnover intention: A study of direct care workers in assisted living facilities for older adults in the United States. Paper submitted to the Journal of Social Development.
Chou, R. J., & Robert, S. A. (in revision). Job satisfaction and areas for improvement in assisted living facilities: Viewpoints of direct care workers.
Greenberg, J. S., Seltzer, M. M., Krauss, M. W., Chou, R. J., Hong, J. (2004). The effect of quality of the relationship between mothers and adult children with disabilities: the mediating role of optimism. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 74(1), 14-25.
Sager, M. A., Moberg, D. P., Cradock, R. M., Voland, R. P., Chou, R. J., Carollo-Zeuner, C., & Felix, E. S. (2003). Final report: Worker Education, Training, and Assistance Program (WETA). Center for Health Policy and Program Evaluation, Medical School, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Chou, R. J. (1998). Assisted living: A new trend in long-term care for older adults in the U.S., Community Development Journal (Taipei, Taiwan), 83, 201-211. (In Chinese).
Chou, R. J. (1997). An anatomy of feelings about living in old age institutions in Taiwan. Bulletin of the Department of Anthropology, National Taiwan University, 52, 69-98.
Chou, R. J. (1995). Subculture of the residents in old age institutions in Taiwan. National Science Council, Taiwan, the Republic of China.(Microfilms).
Chou, R. J. (1995). Confucianism and the concept of yang-sheng (health care) in ancient China, The Bulletin of The College of Liberal Arts, National Taiwan University, 42, 103-152.
Chou, R. J. (1994). Women's status and gender relations in contemporary Taiwan, Women's Status and Gender Relationship. Taipei, Taiwan: Chen-Tse Kung-tso Yian-chiu-hui (Congress Central Committee of Public Policy). (In Chinese).
Chou, R. J. (1994). Marital violence in Taiwan: A cultural perspective, in Phylis Lan Lin, Ko-wang Mei, and Huai-chen Peng (eds.) Marriage and the Family in Chinese Societies, Indianapolis: University of Indianapolis Press.
Chou, R. J. (1993). Norms and their popularization: Respecting the elderly in traditional Chinese Society, in Chun-chieh Huang and Erick Zurcher (eds.), Norms and the State in China, Leiden, the Netherlands: E. J. Brill's Publisher.
Chou, R. J. (1992). Double jeopardy or age as a leveler - Implications from a study on the Chinese American elderly in Oakland, The Bulletin of the Department of Anthropology, National Taiwan University, No. 48, 79-98.
Chou, R. J. (1992). Doctors' norms of morality in traditional China - A study of medical ethics. Proceedings of the Symposium on the Psychology and Behavior of the Chinese .Taipei: Academia Sinica.
Selected Presentations:
Chou, R. J. (2007). Willingness of older adults to live in old age institutions in rural and urban China. Paper presented at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, San Francisco, November 21, 2007.
Chou, R. J. (2007). Organizational justice and turnover intention: A study of direct care workers in assisted living facilities for older adults in the United States. Paper presented at the 15th International Consortium of Social Development Symposium in Hong Kong, China, July 19, 2007.
Chou, R. J., & Robert, S. (2006). Sociological imagination in assisted living: individual- and facility-level correlates of job satisfaction of direct care workers. Poster presentation at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Dallas, November 19, 2006.
Chou, R. J., & Robert, S. (2005). Job satisfaction and areas for improvement in assisted living facilities – from the viewpoints of direct care workers. Paper presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Orlando, November 21, 2005.
Chou, R. J., Seltzer, M. M., Greenberg, J., & Hong, J. (2001). Optimism, pessimism, and mastery in the well-being of older mothers caring for adults with mental retardation: A Longitudinal study. Paper presented at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Chicago, November 18, 2001.
Chou, R. J., (2000). Optimism and its role in the context of caregiving. Paper presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Washington, DC. November 18, 2000.
Greenberg, J., Seltzer, M. M., Chou, R. J., Hong, J., & Krauss, M. W. (2000). The effect of quality of the relationship between aging parents and adults with disabilities on parental well-being: the mediating role of optimism. Paper presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Washington, DC. November 18, 2000.
Li, L. W., Seltzer, M. M., Greenberg, J. S., Chou, R. J. (2000). Variations in the effects of optimism on daughter caregivers’ mental health. Paper presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Washington, DC. November 18, 2000.
Chou, R. J. (1994). Marital violence in Taiwan: A cultural perspective. Paper presented at the 2nd International Conference on Social Change and Families: East and West. University of Indianapolis, July 25, 1994.
Chou, R. J. (1994). Women's status and gender relations in contemporary Taiwan. Paper presented at the 3rd Public Policy Meeting of the Congress, Taipei, Taiwan, the Republic of China, April, 16, 1994.
Chou, R. J. (1993). Confucianism and the concept of yang-sheng (health care) in Ancient China. Paper presented at the International Conference on Traditional Chinese Culture and Society. University of Morberg, Germany, July 17, 1993.
Chou, R. J. (1992). Doctors' norms of morality in traditional China - A study of medical ethics. Paper presented at the 5th Conference on the Psychology and Behavior of the Chinese. Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, April, 20, 1992.
Chou, R. J. (1990). Norms and their popularization: respecting the elderly in traditional Chinese society. Paper presented at the International Conference on Chinese Culture, Leiden University, the Netherlands, July 11, 1990.
Service:
Academic Appointments:
2006-Present: Director, South Carolina Center for Gerontology
Honors and Awards:
2008: Hartford Geriatric Social Work Faculty Scholar Award
2005-2006: Hartford Geriatric Social Work Doctoral Fellowship
2000-2002: Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Aging and Mental Retardation Research, Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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