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Parenting Journal · Volume 2 · Issue 1 · Licensed source edition

Parental Warmth and Hostility and Child Executive Function Problems: A Longitudinal Study of Chinese Families

Chun Bun Lam; Kevin Kien Hoa Chung; Xiaomin Li

Originally published 2018-07-04 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01063 ↗

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How do we respond when a child struggles to switch tasks?

The focus here is warmth, hostility and changes in executive-function difficulties.

Who was studied?

333 Hong Kong kindergarten children, mothers, fathers and class teachers

Age / stage: Kindergarten

Read with three questions

  1. How did the authors investigate warmth, hostility and changes in executive-function difficulties?
  2. Was the proposed family influence measured before the outcome, and who remained at follow-up?
  3. How did teachers’ accounts of executive-function difficulties compare with the parenting reports?

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Children entered the study through Hong Kong kindergartens. School expectations and reporter differences matter when interpreting the two-year pattern.

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Chun Bun Lam; Kevin Kien Hoa Chung; Xiaomin Li (2018). Parental Warmth and Hostility and Child Executive Function Problems: A Longitudinal Study of Chinese Families Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01063

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