The Kong Kids and the Dependent Personality Disorders

At the December of 2010, London suffered from a snowstorm which paralyzed the air transport from Heathrow Airport to Hong Kong International Airport. Consequently, many Hong Kong overseas students were held up in returning to their country for celebrating the Winter Solstice festival and even Christmas festival.

 

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Numerous complaints and grumblings concerning the arrangement of airline and Hong Kong Government were launched by the students and their parents. This aroused heated discussions in Hong Kong whether their kids were immoderately spoilt and indulged.

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Kong Kids, borne between the mid 90s to the early year of millennium, refered to the new generations of Hong Kong who was notorious for their poor self care and, meanwhile, their dependency to be taken care of.

They have the following characteristics which were similar to the Dependent Personality Disorders:

1) Kong Kids Characteristics: Lack of Self Care such as Eating or Showering

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Possible Development in their Later Life

a)  Domestic helpers take care of them persistently and excessively. They are accustomed to the help seeking behaviors.

b) Once the domestic helpers left them, they may have submissive and clinging behavior or even separation anxiety in order to regain the care.

c) They may have difficulty in making everyday decisions without enormous amount of advice and reassurances were given.

d) They were passive to allow the others to take initiative and responsibilities of their life such as deciding what kind of college they ought to attend.

2) Kong Kids Characteristics: Instead of their Parents, They Like their Domestic Helpers.

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Possible Development in their Later Life

a) Attributing to the fear of losing support or approval from the domestic helpers, the Kong Kids might have difficulty to express disagreement with the helpers because they were too dependent on them

3) Kong Kids Characteristics: Having Low Self Confidence, Low Adversity Quotient and Low Emotional Quotient

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 Possible Development In their Later Life 

a) Under the reinforcement, they are conceived that others can do better because they are functioned adequately under consistent advices from others. Meanwhile, they are afraid of becoming more competent because they are conceived that this will be abandoned by others.

b) When they grow older, they will engage in romantic relationship. When the relationships end, they will seek other relationship promptly and even indiscriminately because they believe they are unable to live independently.They were preoccupied with the fear that they need to be alone.

  

References

American Psychiatric Association (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5^th ed.). Bangkok: iGroup Press Co., Ltd.

Ping, H. C. (2011). Kong Kids Phenomenon. Retrieved October, 13, 2013 from The China Daily Clips, Website: http://www.cdeclips.com/en/hongkong/Kong_Kids_Phenomenon/fullstory_58470.html