Mental health of parents with young children in Hong Kong: the roles of parenting stress and parenting self-efficacy

Child and Family Social Work

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 57-65

  Kwok, ^a   Wong, ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Chinese culture; Hong Kong parents; mental health; parenting stress; self efficacy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINDERGARTEN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PARENTAL STRESS; PRIMARY SCHOOL; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ASPECT;

EID: 84937328268     PISSN: 13567500     EISSN: 13652206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2206.2000.00138.x     Document Type: Article

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