Jockey Club Support Project
Jockey Club Support Project to Enhance Emotion Regulation Skills and Resilience of Cross-Boundary Families: A Randomized Controlled Trial
City University of Hong Kong
450 participants
Nov 15, 2025
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
Guided by the process model of emotion regulation, integrative affect-regulation framework for resilience, and the reciprocal dynamics of emotion, affect, and resilience in the family system, researchers will develop a parallel intervention to incorporate two key members in Mainland-Hong Kong cross-boundary families: a parent and a child by improving their affect/emotion regulation skills, de-escalate family conflicts, and flourish under hardships. Specifically, researchers predict that participants in the intervention group will report greater improvement in resilience, emotion regulation, psychological well-being, family harmony, and social connectedness than those in the control group.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria7
- have at least one child between the fifth and twelfth grade;
- can participate in the intervention with their child;
- are Hong Kong residents or have a family member who is a Hong Kong resident;
- live in Shenzhen.
- are between the fifth and twelfth grade;
- are Hong Kong residents or have a family member who is a Hong Kong resident;
- live in Shenzhen.
Exclusion Criteria1
- (a) those who have current diagnoses of severe physical or mental illnesses;
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Interventions
This arm will receive training in emotion regulation skills, including mindfulness skills to help redeploy their attention, cognitive reappraisal skills to analyze stimuli or emotion-eliciting events from a more comprehensive perspective, situation change skills to regulate emotions by exposing oneself to nature, experiential acceptance skills through metaphor, and breathing techniques. They will also receive training in theories of the family emotion system.
This arm will be trained to moderate their and their family members' use of commercial electronics. They will do so by learning mechanisms behind addictions, family communication skills, and various substitute activities for commercial electronics usage.
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NCT07136064