Abstract
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. All rights reserved by Early Childhood Australia Inc.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 111-120 |
| Journal | Australasian Journal of Early Childhood |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| Publication status | Published - Sept 2014 |
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 4 Quality Education
Keywords
- Kindergarten transition
- School
- Australia
- Preschool
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