How Do Bangladeshi Secondary School Students Conceptualise Well-Being in School
AbstractDespite the growing importance of understanding student well-being for students ’ holistic development, it is still a relatively neglected concept in low and middle-income countries such as Bangladesh. Quantitative metrics such as students’ enrolment rate and academic grades have been prioritised at school and considered as the proxy of well-being at school. In contrast, st udents’ quality of school experience and well-being remain neglected. This qualitative study explores the conceptualisation of well-being experiences perceived by secondary school students in Bangladesh. Online focus groups and one-on-one ...
Source: Child Indicators Research - April 30, 2024 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Child Laborers ’ Exposure to Neglect in Rural Bangladesh: Prevalence and Risk Factors
In this study, we investigated the prevalence and factors of child labor neglect in rural Bangladesh. Using the snowball sampling method, 200 parents and employers were recruited for this cross-sectional study. We performed a multivariable linear regression analysis using SPSS 28 version. Child laborers are found to be severely neglected, primarily deprived of food and water, and are inadequately supervised. Elements of parental risk, including poor household income ( β = 0.07, CI = 0.03, 0.11,p < 0.01) and a history of their own early childhood maltreatment (β = 0.22, CI = 0.07, 0.36,p < ...
Source: Child Indicators Research - April 26, 2024 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Voices from the Field: What Do Turkish Students Suggest? A Socio-Ecological Study on School Belonging
This study aims to explore students’ views on what society, principals, teachers, guidance counsellors, families and students should do to increase students’ sense of school belonging. The study is a basic qualitative research. Eight hundred and seventy-six high school students fr om Türkiye were asked to answer open ended questions about what school stakeholders should do to ensure that students feel a sense of belonging to school. This study found some different results compared to previous studies by revealing the expected behaviour of stakeholders outside the school, suc h as society and family. Belonging to schoo...
Source: Child Indicators Research - April 23, 2024 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Well-being at School of 10-year-old Students Living in France in a Bilingual Family Language Context with a Minorated Language: Role of Teacher-Student and Peer Relationship Satisfaction
AbstractResearch on the well-being at school of children living in a bilingual family language context are not very numerous. The cultural, social, and emotional challenges that their schooling implies can be complex, in particular when the family language is minorated and thus not much valued socially. The many available studies on immigrant children are generally not confronted with the problem of speaking different languages at home and at school. The present cross-sectional study was conducted with 216 children aged 10 attending school in France, and living in a monolingual family French language context (n = 103) ...
Source: Child Indicators Research - April 18, 2024 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Promoting Young Children ’s Right to Participate in the Classroom through Picture Books
This study aims to examine the effects of the processes planned regarding children ’s right to participation with picture books on preschoolers’ perceptions of their right to participate in the classroom. The study employed a pretest–posttest design, a quasi-experimental research design with a control group. A random sampling method was employed to determine the study sample . The sample consisted of a total of 42 children (21 in the experimental group and 21 in the control group), attending classes of 5-year-olds in a public kindergarten affiliated with the Directorate of National Education in a province located in ...
Source: Child Indicators Research - April 17, 2024 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Endogenous Altruism and Impact of Child Labour Ban and Education Subsidy on Child Labour
AbstractThis paper builds an overlapping generations household economy model where child labour is present. Child schooling is determined by parental altruism. The degree of parental altruism is determined by the level of schooling of the parent. A more educated parent has a greater willingness to invest in the human capital formation of the child. These differences in the preferences of parents towards their offspring ’s schooling have significant effects on the long-run dynamics of schooling. The dynamics of schooling exhibit the possibility of the existence of a child labour trap. If the economy is trapped in an ineff...
Source: Child Indicators Research - April 17, 2024 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Problematic Smartphone Use among Young People and the Use of Additional Social Networking Software —an Example from Bosnia and Herzegovina
AbstractThe aim of the article is to reveal the level of problematic smartphone use (PSU) among young people, with an additional aim being to diagnose the level of use of applications offering ready access to popular social networks (SNS —e.g. Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, Pinterest). The text fills a gap related to the scale and mechanisms of PSUs. The research was conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2022, and is the first study of its kind in the country. A total of 1,024 young people participated in the study (age r ange 14–19 years; Female 627, Male 397). From the data collected, it was noted that: 1) L...
Source: Child Indicators Research - April 17, 2024 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
A Systematic Review of Quality Indicators in Therapeutic Residential Care Drawn from Young People ´s Beliefs and Experiences
AbstractYoung people ´s perspectives on service quality in Therapeutic Residential Care (TRC) are commonly excluded or overshadowed by those of adults which has led to calls for better youth self-report indicators of quality healthcare. In response, we performed a systematic review of peer-reviewed literature to identi fy the most important quality indicators for young people by reviewing the literature on their beliefs and experiences regarding TRC and building on the four-pronged parsimonious framework (setting, staffing, treatment approach, and safety) proposed by Farmer et al., (2017). Following PRISMA guideli nes, a ...
Source: Child Indicators Research - April 16, 2024 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Development of an Implicit Well-Being Measure for Youths Using the Implicit Association Test
In this study, 358 primary and secondary school students answered the WB-IAT-Y, the Psychological Well-being Scales, and the World Health Organization – Five Well-Being Index. Finally, an expert conducted a semi-structured interview with each participant, asking about satisfaction with life in the main domains for children (i.e., family life, friends, school, and overall life satisfaction). The WB-IAT-Y showed good internal consistency and adequate construct validity. Factorial analyses indicated that this measure acted as an indire ct measure. As in previous research, the WB-IAT-Y correlated weakly with the two well-bei...
Source: Child Indicators Research - April 13, 2024 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Children ’s Moral Evaluations of Inclusion and Exclusion during Play in Regard to Ethnic Background
AbstractThe aim of this study was to determine the likelihood of children including a child of a different ethnic origin in their games. In focusing on 359 children aged six, eight, and twelve, the research sought to understand how the children categorized their views on this subject and whether the decision to include or exclude would change at the behest of peers, teachers, or parents. The study was inspired by the work presented by Walker et al. (2019), and five questions related to this topic were used as data collection tools. As a result of the deductive and inductive analyses, it was determined that most of the chil...
Source: Child Indicators Research - April 4, 2024 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Youth Emotional Experiences during COVID-19: Relations with Internalizing Problems and Social Support
AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic affected youth positively and negatively through regulations related to social distancing and remote learning. The current study aimed to understand youth ’s positive and negative emotional experiences of COVID-19 and how emotions were associated with internalizing problems and social support from teachers and classmates. Seven hundred and fifteen students in fourth to twelfth grade from a suburban school district in the Northeast (53.4% female; 93. 3% White) were asked to complete a survey from March to May 2021 assessing their emotional experiences, internalizing problems, and sense of soc...
Source: Child Indicators Research - April 2, 2024 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
A Qualitative Study of Unveiling School Dropout Complexity in T ürkiye
This study investigates school dropout, particularly the shift to open high schools in T ürkiye during the pandemic, through a multi-stakeholder lens. Using grounded theory, data was collected via semi-structured interviews with 12 students, 15 teachers, and 20 school administrators. Results reveal a model linking themes: predictive reasons for transferring to open high school, both pa ndemic-related and unrelated, positive/negative consequences of the transition, pandemic’s impact on formal education continuity, essential open high school skills, and strategies to reduce such preferences. Findings highlight the sway of...
Source: Child Indicators Research - April 1, 2024 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Longitudinal Comparison of Cohorts Concerning Sense of Community of Adolescents
AbstractWe aimed to investigate the developmental trajectories of the sense of community in South Korean children over time and explore potential variations in these changes among different cohort groups. For these purposes, we using latent growth curve modeling and performed multigroup analysis involving two separate cohorts (elementary 4th cohort,N = 2,092, female 47.4%, age 13–16; middle 1st cohort,N = 2,350, female 50.0%, age 13–16). The results showed that the recent generation demonstrated a stronger sense of community compared to the past generation. The differences between cohorts can be explained to se...
Source: Child Indicators Research - April 1, 2024 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Differences in Subjective and Psychological Well-Being of Romanian Adolescents over a Four-Year Period and its Relationship with Free Time
AbstractThe aim of this study is to explore changes in subjective well-being (life satisfaction and positive affect), as well as psychological well-being among Romanian adolescents over a 4-year period using data from the Children ’s Worlds project (Waves 2 and 3). Participants were 12-year-olds (N = 1,504 in 2015;N = 1,145 in 2019). The findings indicated a decline in positive affect and psychological prosperity with the passage of time, while life satisfaction remained constant. To investigate factors influencing the decline, we examined the relationships between well-being and the amount of time adolesc ents s...
Source: Child Indicators Research - March 22, 2024 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Exhibiting the Changes in Nutritional Status of Children in India: An Empirical Insight from the Human Opportunity Index
AbstractEnhancing the nutritional status is essential for fostering human resource development and attaining sustainable development. The objective of this study is to analyse the temporal change in the opportunity to access adequate nutritional outcomes (Normal height for age, Normal weight for age, and Normal weight for height) for children under the age of five in India. The analysis of the study is based on three sets (2005– 06, 2015–16 and 2019–21) of National Family Health Survey (NFHS) data, at both the national and sub-national levels. It used the Human Opportunity Index (HOI), D-index, Shapley decomposi...
Source: Child Indicators Research - March 19, 2024 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
