The Sequential Mediating Effect of Mother’s Happiness and Children’s Social Competence between Mother’s Family Functioning and Mother’s Affective Parenting

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-27
Author(s):  
Sun Ko ◽  
Su In Cho
Keyword(s):  
Social Competence ◽  
Family Functioning ◽  
Mediating Effect

Multifamily Group Therapy: Impact on Family Functioning and Child Behavior

1998 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Meezan ◽  
Maura O'Keefe
Keyword(s):  
Family Therapy ◽  
Group Therapy ◽  
Social Competence ◽  
Family Functioning ◽  
Parental Support ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Traditional Family ◽  
End Of Treatment ◽  
The Family ◽  
Treatment Changes

The authors compare the effectiveness of multifamily group therapy (MFGT) with traditional family therapy with abusive and neglectful caregivers and their children. Positive changes in the family functioning of the MFGT group occurred in areas critical to the reduction of child abuse and neglect, whereas changes in the family functioning of those in traditional family therapy occurred only in the area of parental support. The MFGT group children became significantly more assertive and less submissive according to their self-report and, according to their caregivers, showed significantly fewer overall behavior problems and greater social competence at the end of treatment. Changes in the children in the comparison group were not self-reported and did not occur in the area of social competence. These positive findings argue that agencies should consider adopting this modality in the treatment of this population and that it should be included as a treatment option in family-centered child welfare services.

A 6-year longitudinal study of social competence amongst Chinese adolescents in Hong Kong

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel T.L. Shek ◽  
Xiang Li ◽  
Lu-Yin Liang
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Social Competence ◽  
Family Functioning ◽  
Adolescent Development ◽  
Initial Level ◽  
Chinese Adolescents ◽  
Economic Disadvantage ◽  
Relational Quality ◽  
Intact Families

AbstractIn response to the severe lack of longitudinal data on adolescent development, we conducted a 6-year longitudinal study examining the change and psychosocial correlates of social competence in Chinese adolescents in Hong Kong. During the high school years (Secondary 1 to Secondary 6), participants responded to measures of social competence, socio-demographic characteristics (gender, family intactness and economic disadvantage) and family processes (father-child relational quality, mother-child relational quality and family functioning). Results showed that social competence dropped across the six waves. While gender, father-child subsystem quality, mother-child subsystem quality, and family functioning significantly predicted social competence at the initial level, rate of decrease in social competence was greater for adolescents who came from intact families, had better mother-child subsystem quality, and reported better family functioning. Economic disadvantage was the only factor that did not affect the development of social competence in adolescents.

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