Journal Articles
Transition to early childhood education: Parents' use of coping strategies in dealing with children's adjustment difficulties in Hong Kong
- Transition to early childhood education: Parents' use of coping strategies in dealing with children's adjustment difficulties in Hong Kong
- Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 39(3), 111-120, 2014
- Early Childhood Australia Inc.
- 2014
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- Hong Kong
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- 1997.7 onwards
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- Unknown or Unspecified
- THE TRANSITION FROM HOME to early childhood education can be stressful for both children and parents. How parents cope with this potentially stressful event affects both the children's adaptation and the parents' lives during the preschooler stage of the family lifecycle. This paper examines how parents respond to their children's adjustment difficulties, particularly a reluctance to attend school, by examining the coping strategies of 29 Hong Kong parents. The parents expressed different kinds of negative emotions regarding their children's reluctance to go to school due to various adjustment difficulties. Parents' coping strategies can be classified as planful coping, seeking social support, accepting responsibilities, distancing, self-controlling and positive reappraisal according to Folkman and Lazarus's Ways of Coping (WOC) framework. The implications of these strategies for how early childhood professionals can support parents are discussed.[Copyright © 2014 Early Childhood Australia Inc.]
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- English
- Journal Articles
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- 18369391
- https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/16af8b65
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