ABSTRACT
The recent scene of Hong Kong appears to hold rather low levels of distributive justice, government legitimacy, trust in government, and support for merchants in the words of the vocal public. The radical action of the cynical public unquestionably meets with counteraction by the other extreme of the public, which sustains and defends existing political and economic institutions in Hong Kong. The emerging adult, on average, appeared to have a rather high perception about distributive justice in Hong Kong. Emerging adulthood made a consistent significant difference only in perceived distributive justice, but not the other indicators of sustaining social institutions. The emerging adult, nevertheless, showed more differences significantly in sustaining social institutions conditionally, being conditional on a number of other background characteristics. Apart from emerging adulthood, background characteristics that displayed some consistently significant effects on sustaining social institutions were the square of age, gender, employee status, personal income, and marital status.
