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https://doi.org/10.5559/di.20.4.08
THE MEDIATING ROLE OF PARENTAL PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH IN CHINESE FAMILIES IN AN IMPOVERISHED CONTEXT IN HONG KONG
Jerf W. K. YEUNG
; Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Yuk-chung CHAN
; Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Sažetak
Based on data collected from 504 parents in Tin Shui Wai, one
of the lowest income-level communities in Hong Kong, the
present study found that, in addition to financial strain, cumulative
family stressors associated with poverty had deleterious
impacts on family functioning and parental psychological health.
Furthermore, negative effects of cumulative family stressors on
family functioning were significantly shrunk after adding parental
self-efficacy as mediator, and became insignificant after adding
parenting stress and both parental self-efficacy and parenting
stress as mediators. The results of this study are consonant to
family stress model and demoralization thesis, postulating that
experiencing multiple stressors at family level coalesced with
poverty may adversely influence family development and
relationships through their detriments on parental psychological
health. Implications for service practices were briefly discussed.
Ključne riječi
poverty; family stressors; parental psychological health; family functioning
Hrčak ID:
75855
URI
Datum izdavanja:
31.12.2011.
Posjeta: 2.125 *