The Effect of Socioeconomic Status and Family Structure on Parental Warmth and Parental Control in a Chinese Context: Implications for Social Work Practice

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

We report the results of a telephone survey conducted in 2008 in Hong Kong, which aimed to identifyChinese parents’ parental warmth and parental control (guan) and to explore their relationshipwith the sociodemographic characteristics of the parents. The respondents perceived themselves tobe warm (mean = 3.44) and educating their child (mean = 3.46). The results of multiple regressionanalysis showed that the five sociodemographic characteristics explained 15.8% and 8.2% of thevariance in parental warmth and guan respectively. The mothers were warmer than the fathers; parentswith higher monthly household income, higher educational attainment and with their smallestchild young in age were warmer than parents of lower household income, lower educational attainmentand with their smallest child older in age. However, parental guan did not vary among the fivesociodemographic characteristics except educational attainment. Implications of the study forsocial work practice are discussed.

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