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Tam, Chiu Wan.

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Mothers' decision-making on alternative child care arrangements in Hong Kong.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Mothers' decision-making on alternative child care arrangements in Hong Kong./
Author:	Tam, Chiu Wan.
Description:	259 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-10, Section: A, page: 4163.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International56-10A.
Subject:	Sociology, Individual and Family Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9604990

Mothers' decision-making on alternative child care arrangements in Hong Kong.
Tam, Chiu Wan.

Mothers' decision-making on alternative child care arrangements in Hong Kong. - 259 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-10, Section: A, page: 4163.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 1995.

This study examined everyday life decision making in families. The research question of how mothers make decisions on alternative care arrangements for their school-age children when the mothers are not available was approached from an ecological perspective. The life situations of 24 mothers residing in the Leung Tin Area in Tuen Mun, Hong Kong and how they arranged alternative care were examined. The grounded theory approach was adopted. Data from audio-recorded interviews were analyzed through processes of open, axial, and selective coding and the use of the constant comparative method. Findings from this study led to the development of a conceptual model of decision making on alternative care. The model indicates that the decision on alternative care was centered around personal definitions of the decision situation that resulted from the competing demands on the mother. The choice of a care arrangement was based upon the resource options available, the mother's use of decision making strategies, and her decision making orientations. The ecological context of the neighborhood shaped the demands on the mother and the resource options available. Personal and family attributes such as family size, age of the children, the mother's child care philosophies, maternal employment, and her work-family preference, also affected the decision processes and outcomes. The model illustrated a structure of the components of decision making on alternative care while it also gave empirical support to existing concepts in the decision making literature. Findings also demonstrated that everyday life decision making in a family context involves reasoned, cognitive efforts in appraising life situations. Decisions on alternative care were often made repeatedly on a daily basis with constantly changing demands and resources. Personal policies for choice of alternative care were sometimes developed. At other times the decisions were more automatic than deliberated. The decision on alternative care sometimes appeared to be blurred because (a) the mother moved in and out of making a technical decision on alternative care as she dealt with the economic decision situation of competing demands, or (b) there was a time lag between making the decision and the actual implementation of the choice.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Sociology, Individual and Family Studies.

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