What is it about?
This study aims to examine the non-parental (i.e., FDHs) childcare correlates and parenting correlates which are associated with children’s self-reported externalizing behavior (e.g., noncompliance, fighting).
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Why is it important?
Approximately one third of Hong Kong households with children aged 12 and below employed live-in foreign domestic helpers (FDHs). However, research is scarce on examining the relationships between this FDHs-involved childcare and children’s socio-emotional outcomes.
Perspectives
This study pioneered in examining the relationship between children’s secondary attachment toward non-parental caregivers (i.e., FDHs) and children’s socioemotional outcome. It also extended the attachment theory to the setting of non-parental childcare in late childhood.
Sylvia Kwok
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This page is a summary of: Examining live-in foreign domestic helpers correlates and parenting correlates in children’s externalizing behavior in Hong Kong, Children and Youth Services Review, July 2023, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.107014.
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