Little attention was paid to the parents with children who immigrated from mainland China to Hong Kong under talent introduce policies. Furthermore, little was know about the influence mechanism of the interpersonal interaction and individual cognition on the wellbeing of parents. This study aims to verify the path relationship among coparenting behavior, hopeful thinking level, and parental wellbeing in the Chinese new arrival families in Hong Kong.

Data were collected by conducting keyword searches on social networking sites and then inviting participants who met the criteria to fill out questionnaires. Bivariate correlation showed positive significant relationships between coparenting, hope level and parental wellbeing (p < 0.01). After covariate socioeconomic status, child gender, whether living separately with spouse, and adaptation difficulties, cooperative coparenting of the new arrival parents can predict a higher wellbeing (β = 0.53; p < 0.01). Mediation analyses reveals that no zero was included in the 95% confidence interval of the total effect, direct effect and indirect effect (95% CI = 0.50, 1.24; 0.13, 0.73; 0.23, 0.81 and 0.63, 1.08, respectively). In conclusion, the results revealed that parental wellbeing was associated with coparenting behavior and hope level of the parents, and was particularly influenced by coparenting style between spouses. Parental hope level could be a path from the coparenting to wellbeing even in a challenging situation, suggesting that hope-focused intervention could be an effective way to promote the wellbeing of new arrival families in Hong Kong.

Authors:
Yuhuan Wu, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

About the Presenter(s)
Ms. WU YUHUAN is currently a master student of the department of early childhood education of the education university of Hong Kong. Her research interests were about the parental wellbeing and child development under family background.

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