Stress factors and mental health adjustment of Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong

Bagley, Christopher; Madrid, Susan; Bolitho, Floyd H.

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“…None, at the time of selection, reported physical health problems associated with commercial sexual exploitation, and all of the 61 "success stories" scored in the normal range of the Filipino Version of the General Health Questionnaire (Bagley et al,.1997), completed online at the time of the follow-up. It was impossible for us to use an "untreated" control group, for ethical reasons.…”

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Adolescent Girls Offered Alternatives to Commercial Sexual Exploitation: A Case Study from the Philipines

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Simkhada³

et al. 2017

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Background: Up to 2% of adolescents and young women are subjected to commercial sexual exploitation (CSE) in the Philippines, an economically poor country that earns considerable revenue from "sex tourists. " Earlier research, in the 1990s in Metro Manila, described the living conditions of adolescents whose CSE was influenced by family poverty, their so-called "sex work" becoming a major source of income for families left behind in rural and provincial areas of Luzon. Recent research (up to 2014) indicates that conditions for adolescents experiencing CSE have, if anything, worsened.

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Adolescent Girls Offered Alternatives to Commercial Sexual Exploitation: A Case Study from the Philipines

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“…These issues continue to be debated in the psychological literature (Kashima, 1995) with an emerging dualism: thus two sets of instruments are being developed, one measuring indigenous personality constructs (Marsella, 1992), and the other measuring cross-cultural or etic concepts (with some success in terms of demonstrated validity and reliability-see for example the programme of research in The Philippines of Astilla, 1979, andGerong, 1997). Our approach to crosscultural research is grounded in this latter school, as exemplified by work using the translated version of the Coopersmith selfesteem scale in adolescents in and from Hong Kong (Verma and Chan, 1995;Verma et al, 1999), the General Health Questionnaire in The Philippines (Bagley, Madrid and Bolitho, 1997), and the Center for Epidemiological Studies of Depression Scale in Hong Kong (Cheung and Bagley, 1998).…”

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Adjustment, Stress and Family Life in Adolescents in Canada, Britain, Hong Kong, India, Pakistan and The Philippines

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Mallick

Verma

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International Journal of Adolescence and Youth

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Using a normative Canadian study as the baseline for comparison of measures of stress and adjustment, and as the basis for a model predicting poor adjustment following stress in family, school and community, a comparison was made of 2,524 15 and 16-year-olds self-competing questionnaires in school settings in Canada, Britain, Pakistan, India, Hong Kong and The Philippines. Results indicate some cross-cultural validity for the instruments used, implying that there are culturally universal aspects of reaction to stress, in terms of emotional and psychosomatic disorder, conduct disorder and hyperactivity, and impaired self-esteem. Students in Canada, Britain, Hong Kong and The Philippines were the most similar in terms of mean levels of stress and of reactions to stress, whilst students in Pakistan and India were the most dissimilar but in opposite directions, the Indian students having particularly good levels of adjustment. A notable finding was that the McMaster Family Adjustment Device was more successful in predicting problems of emotion and behaviour than were more specific measures of physical and sexual maltreatment.

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“…They were prone to depression (Bagley et al, 1997) and fatigue (Sayres, n.d.) resulting from lack of sleep and loneliness (Holroyd et al, 2001). In 2012 alone, the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) reported that 68 FHSWs were admitted to hospitals in HK because of heart-related problems (Sto Domingo, 2013).…”

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Exploring the meanings and experiences of health among Filipino female household service workers in Hong Kong

Bernadas

2015

International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the meanings and experiences of health of Filipino female household service workers (FHSWs) in Hong Kong (HK). Design/methodology/approach – It draws theoretic insights from culture-centered approach to health communication and uses in-depth interviews and field notes. Findings – For FHSWs, meanings of health are contingent on work. Health is valued not just because it allows FHSWs to fulfill the daily demands of employers but also it provides assurance for sustained employment contracts. Relative to formal labor and migration policies, informal rules and regulations of employers put unreasonable demand for FHSWs to be healthy. Furthermore, FHSWs experience health along the themes of periphery and center, physical and non-physical, internal and external, and right and privilege. Research limitations/implications – The experiences and meanings of health reported in this paper are limited to FHSWs in HK and may differ from other countries. Employers, non-government organizations, and private and public health care personnel need to be included to generate a more nuanced discussion of migration health in HK. Practical implications – In designing health promotion for FHSWs, employers as target audience should also be considered. Originality/value – Despite growing evidence, the consequences of international and temporary labor migration on women’s health largely remain under-theorized. To date, this paper is one of the few to engage health communication theory in rethinking migration health scholarship.

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Stress factors and mental health adjustment of Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong

Cited by 35 publications

References 8 publications

Adolescent Girls Offered Alternatives to Commercial Sexual Exploitation: A Case Study from the Philipines

Adolescent Girls Offered Alternatives to Commercial Sexual Exploitation: A Case Study from the Philipines

Adjustment, Stress and Family Life in Adolescents in Canada, Britain, Hong Kong, India, Pakistan and The Philippines

Exploring the meanings and experiences of health among Filipino female household service workers in Hong Kong

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