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Multi-Faceted Discipline Strategies of Chinese Parenting
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Fung, Heidi; Li, Jin; Lam, Chi Kwan – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2017
Parental disciplining of their misbehaving children continues to draw much research attention. Baumrind's typology of parenting styles has been frequently used to classify Chinese parenting as more authoritarian. Although influential, research tends predominantly to focus on abstract characterization. Yet, parenting is a practice informed by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Discipline, Child Rearing, Asian Culture
The Effects of Group Art Therapy on Mothers of Children with Special Educational Needs
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Lee, Sau-Lai; Peng, Maria Sau-Chi – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2017
In this study we explored the effects of group art therapy on the emotional well-being and parental empathy of mothers of children with special educational needs. Eleven mothers of children who were diagnosed with at least 1 kind of special educational need participated in a 16-week program. We hypothesized that the art therapy group would help…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Counseling Techniques, Mothers, Special Education
"We Spend More Time with the Children Than They Do?…:" Education, Care and the Work of Foreign Domestic Workers in Hong Kong
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Yelland, Nicola; Andrew, Yarrow; Blaise, Mindy; Chan, Yee On – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2013
Despite the ongoing global financial crisis, there is an increasing deployment of migrant workers across the globe, and in Hong Kong the foreign domestic worker occupies a ubiquitous presence in the lives of many families. Seven domestic workers from Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand were interviewed to gain insight into their role in…
Descriptors: Foreign Nationals, Foreign Countries, Interviews, Child Caregivers
Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Comparison of Chinese and Western Culture (Part A)
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Wong, V. C. N. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2009
A cross-sectional survey of the use of CAM by children was undertaken in the Duchess of Kent Children's Hospital in Hong Kong (March-December 2006). A questionnaire survey concerning the use of CAM was administered to chief caretakers (only the mothers) who accompanied children with neurodevelopmental disabilities followed up in our…
Descriptors: Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Children, Medicine, Sensory Integration
Chinese Parenting in Hong Kong: Links among Goals, Beliefs and Styles
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Chan, S. M.; Bowes, J.; Wyver, S. – Early Child Development and Care, 2009
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships among parental goals, parental beliefs and parenting styles. Questionnaires were completed during interviews with 189 Hong Kong-Chinese mothers of children aged six to eight years. Results indicated that these mothers embraced Chinese parental beliefs (guan) and Chinese parental goals of…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parenting Styles, Child Rearing, Foreign Countries
Intergenerational Comparisons of Child-Rearing Attitudes and Practices in Hong Kong.
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Ho, David Y. F.; Kang, T. K. – Developmental Psychology, 1984
Reports two studies, one focusing on maternal childrearing attitudes and practices and the other on paternal roles and attitudes in Hong Kong. Informants were 17 pairs of grandmothers and mothers and 20 pairs of grandfathers and fathers from the same families. Despite important changes in paternal roles, continuity with the past was found to…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Fathers, Grandparents, Interviews