published_or_final_version / Social Work / Master / Master of Social Work

Ineffective and tough parenting has been associated with physical child abuse. Parenting support would be the key component to act as a preventive measure of the problem. The evidenced based parenting intervention has proved to reduce prevalence of child abuse and children behavioural and emotional problems as well. As a result, there is a marked increased international recognition of the value of Positive Parenting Program (Triple P). Triple P is developed at University of Queensland in Australia. It is based on social learning models and proved that is effective, especially on managing early onset of children’s conduct problems by enhancing parental competence. Group Triple P is an intensive level (level 4) of Triple P. It is identified as universal parenting support program. Department of Health of Hong Kong has launched Triple P in 2002. Research was carried out to prove that it was an effective parental intervention on reducing the parental stress and enhancing the martial relationship in HK. The course is delivered by nurses only, named as accredited facilitators. However both incidence rate of child abuse and nurses’ workload are increasing dramatically in recent years. Better distributing the resources should be addressed immediately. In order to enhance the efficiency of the course with limited resources, a new protocol to improving by synthesis of the high level evidenced studies should be proposed. According to the studies’ results, the program design of Group Triple P could be modify into four group sessions instead of eight by cancellation of four telephone sessions. Thus more parents would access to the course as shortening their waiting time with better utilisation of nurses’ manpower. / published_or_final_version / Nursing Studies / Master / Master of Nursing

透過管教孩子，父母往往會將文化上的價值觀以不同的管教方法灌輸給下一代，當中亦包括如何成為人母(父)。故此，有不少研究亦假設這種代代相承的習慣會對個人的管教方法有著重要的影響。其中不少西方社會的研究均發現有關假設成立的確實証明，相對地，於中國文化社會的相關研究皆乏善可陳。至於缺乏中國文化社會有關研究的原因，很大程度上是由於中國及亞洲地區的群體在心理學文獻上一直被視為代表性不足，因此絶大部份的研究均會以西方社會作為收集數據的根本(Chang, Lansford, Schwartz, & Farver, 2004)。正因為缺乏中國文化社會相關研究，本研究的首要目的便是研究香港父母於管教方法上代代相承的情況並希望藉此填補相關研究上的空隙。 / 是次研究有三個目的：一，管教方法在香港華人社會是否會代代相承；二，驗證西方社會的相關研究結果是否同樣能於香港社會用以預測下一代的行為；最後，檢視這些代代相承的管教方法是否存在一個相應的機制並啟發往後的相關研究。 / 本研究共訪問了261對母親及其子女，受訪的母親（第二代）會被問及其管教的方法及其母親（第一代）的管教方法，而子女則會被問及其日常行為及個人情感。有關的數據會以路徑分析進行分析。 / 研究結果顯示，不論母親是什麼類型的管教方法均會直接影響其女兒的管教方法。母親放任型的管教方法與其子女的焦慮及外化行為問題有著負面關係，而與其子女對妁母親管教之認同及滿意度則有正面關係。再者，母親於孩童時代的愉快及滿足經歷亦會對其將來管教方法有影響。 / 總括以言，本研究再一次証明管教方法是會代代相承(Bailet et al., 2005, Belsky et al., 2005）。本研究亦發現，子女一般都會對權威型管教方法的母親缺乏認同感及滿意度從而導致他們不會採用同類班管教方式教導其下一代。但是，若子女對母親的管教方法感到愉快及滿意，這一群子女卻會受傳統華人對權威型管教方法的價值觀影響，採用權威型的管教方法教導自己的下一代。最後本研究列舉出三個代代相承管教方法研究方向，並就香港本土親子輔導提供臨床考慮的建議。 / Through parenting, parents transmit different cultural values to their children, including how one should behave when becoming a parent. Therefore, it was hypothesized that intergenerational transmission of parenting could be one strong factor that contributes to parenting styles. While empirical evidence has been found to support this hypothesis in the West, few studies have been done on the question in Chinese culture. The lack of intergenerational parenting studies in Chinese cultural contexts could possibly be due to the fact that Chinese and other Asian populations are underrepresented in the psychology literature (Chang, Lansford, Schwartz, & Farver, 2004). Therefore, the primary purpose of this study was to fill this research gap in Chinese parenting studies to examine the intergenerational transmission of parenting in Hong Kong. / The purpose of this study was threefold: first, to examine whether parenting would be transmitted from one generation to the next in the Hong Kong Chinese culture; second, to replicate Western intergenerational studies on parenting that have claimed that parenting in one generation direct predicts that in the next generation, and subsequent predicts children’s behaviours and third, to examined the mechanism through which parenting is transmitted from one generation to the next so that further insights on the relationship of intergeneration parenting can be derived. / In this study, 261 mother-child dyads were recruited in this study through convenience sampling. All participants were asked to fill out the demographic information form and reported on their childhood experience. In addition, mothers were asked to report on their own parenting styles (G2) and their own mothers’ parenting styles (G1). Children were asked to self-report on their behaviour and emotional outcomes. Prior to the main analyses, preliminary analyses were conducted to provide descriptive details of the sample, and path analyses were used to examine the two major hypotheses of this study. / Results of this study showed that parenting styles are transmitted across generations from mothers to daughters in all parenting dimensions. Daughters’ parenting permissiveness was found to be negatively associated with their children’s anxiety and externalizing behaviour, and positively with their children’s agreement and satisfaction with their parenting strategies in this sample. Further, it mothers’ parenting was found to affect daughters’ agreement and satisfaction to their mothers’ parenting and their experience of happiness and fulfillment during childhood, which subsequently affected daughters’ parenting during motherhood. / The present study joins a growing body of evidence that supports the intergenerational transmission of parenting (Bailey et al., 2009; Belsky et al., 2005). Further, children had less agreement and satisfaction when mothers adopted parenting authoritarianism and consequently led to their less using of this same parenting strategy when being parent. When children felt happy and satisfied with their mothers’ parenting, they were more likely to be influenced by the Chinese traditional value on authoritarianism and adopt such parenting dimension with their own children. The present study also identified three directions for future intergenerational parenting studies and clinical considerations for counselling children and parents in Hong Kong. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Ho, Sin Wan Bianca. / Thesis (Ed.D) Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2014. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 108-119). / Abstracts also in Chinese.

published_or_final_version / Psychology / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

published_or_final_version / Social Work and Social Administration / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

published_or_final_version / Social Work / Master / Master of Social Sciences

published_or_final_version / Social Work / Master / Master of Social Work

published_or_final_version / Social Work / Master / Master of Social Work

published_or_final_version / Social Work / Master / Master of Social Work

published_or_final_version / Social Work / Master / Master of Social Work