Left-behind experience and children ’s multidimensional poverty: Evidence from rural China
This study contributes to a better understanding of the multidimensional poverty of rural children in China and provides a valuable direction for alleviating multidimensional poverty from the perspective of LBE. Meanwhile, these findings are conducive to raising the attention of families and governments to LBC in rural areas and ensuring the welfare of rural children. (Source: Child Indicators Research)
Source: Child Indicators Research - September 28, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Measurement of Multidimensional Child Poverty: Evidence from North Macedonia
This study describes the multidimensionality of child poverty and produces the first multidimensional child poverty indices in North Macedonia. We use the Alkire-Foster method to develop two age-specific (0 –4 years and 5–17 years) child multidimensional poverty indices (MPIs) by leveraging secondary data from Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) 2018/2019 for North Macedonia and North Macedonia Roma Settlements. We find that the largest part of multidimensionally poor children are deprived wit hin the range 33 − 39% of deprivations and the structure of multidimensional child poverty is similar for less, as wel...
Source: Child Indicators Research - September 24, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Nutrition Outcomes of Under-five Children of Smallholder Farm Households: Do Higher Commercialization Levels Lead to Better Nutritional Status?
AbstractThe study investigated the nutritional status of under-five children of farm households. The study utilized primary data from 352 farm households with 140 under-five children. Household crop commercialization index (CCI) was used to estimate cassava farm household crop sale ratio and categorize the households into four commercialization levels while WHO Anthro software was employed to analyze under-five children anthropometric indices such as weight-for-age z-score (WAZ), height-for-age z-score (HAZ) and weight-for-height z-score (WHZ). Logit regression model (LRM) was used to examine the drivers of under-five chil...
Source: Child Indicators Research - September 21, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
On the Gender Gap of Soft-Skills: the Spanish Case
AbstractIn recent years, many studies have referred to the interdependence between cognitive (hard-skills) and students ’ academic performance. However, despite their relevance, soft-skills have not received the same treatment and have not been analysed as extensively, particularly from a gender perspective. Therefore, and bearing in mind that analysing from a gender perspective is essential to reduce occupational segregation and soft-skills can enhance young people’s personal and academic development, throughout this paper we have analysed the gender gap in soft-skills with a sample of 15–16 years old students from ...
Source: Child Indicators Research - September 14, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Schools ’ We-mentality and Students’ Civic Engagement – A Text-based Approach
AbstractThis paper studies the role of schools' we-mentality in shaping students' civic outcome. A school's we-mentality is important for the students' perception and education of sense of community. We-mentality is measured by an automated content-analysis approach applied to the schools' general principle. Data stem from a survey conducted in 13 German schools with 488 students. Using OLS and multi-level regression techniques, I find that stronger we-mentality is associated with more students being engaged in local civic activities. Moreover, students that exhibit stronger trust in others and are willing to engage with n...
Source: Child Indicators Research - August 31, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
The Association between Teacher –Student and Peer Relationships and the Escalation of Peer School Victimization
AbstractPeer school victimization via minor and less severe forms of violence may predict victimization via more severe and major forms of violence. Nonetheless, very rarely are the escalating patterns of violence addressed theoretically or empirically tested. In the school context, the quality of peer and teacher –student relationships are critical determinants of peer victimization, although inconclusive mechanisms have been suggested to establish associations among students’ interpersonal relationships and peer victimization. To address prior inconsistencies and better conceptualize theoretical knowled ge of these a...
Source: Child Indicators Research - August 30, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Emotional and Behavioral Health among Portuguese Toddlers during the COVID-19 Crisis: The Impact of Social Isolation and Caregiving Distress
This study evidences the negative impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the functioning of Portuguese families and toddlers’ EBH. It emphasizes the importance for policies to consider the implications of the COVID-19 crisis for young children, and to provide psychosocial support to families in order to reduce caregiving distress and, thus, prevent children’s mental health problems. (Source: Child Indicators Research)
Source: Child Indicators Research - August 24, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Understanding and Measuring Child Well-being in the Region of Attica, Greece: Round four
AbstractThis paper aims to present the results of implementing a new, multi-dimensional and cumulative tool that records the well-being of children in the 1st semester of the school year 2020 –2021, which constitutes the fourth round of an ongoing research. The tool was implemented in Attica through questionnaires circulated in twenty-five schools and three support centers for children and families under the organization, “The Smile of the Child” (twenty-eight bodies in total). The total number of children who participated in the sample was 1,114, belonging to three distinct school categories: the 6th grade of elemen...
Source: Child Indicators Research - August 24, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Subjective Well-Being of Children and Adolescents from Ethnic Minorities in Chile
This study analyzes the SWB of children and adolescents pertaining to Indigenous ethnic minorities living in Chile. Participants were 44,451 students from 430 schools with low socioeconomic status (20.18% were from ethnic minorities) enrolled in fifth to eighth grade (M age = 12.47,SD = 1.41) who answered the Brief Multidimensional Student’s Life Satisfaction Scale and a single item on overall life satisfaction, which have been used as subjective well-being indicators. Findings showed that non-Indigenous adolescents reported higher subjective well-being, followed by the Ma puches and Aymara groups, with the othe...
Source: Child Indicators Research - August 20, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Client Agency in Child Protection Work in Estonia: Clients ’ Perspectives
This article explores how child protection clients perceive their opportunities to exercise agency in their encounters with child protection services. Child clients include respondents who were children at the time of responding or had previous contact with child protection services, i.e. those under the age of 18 (n = 217); adult clients include parents, guardians, and relatives (collectively referred to as “family members”) who had personal experience with child protection workers (n = 505). The analysis applies a three dimensionional framework of understanding agency (autonomy, construction and a ction) ins...
Source: Child Indicators Research - August 17, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Student Subjective Wellbeing amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic in Iran: Role of Loneliness, Resilience and Parental Involvement
This study theoretically contributes to a better understanding of the factors determining the impact of traumatic e vents such as a pandemic on adolescents’ mental health. The implications of this study indicate interventions that can be carried out to minimize the negative psychological consequences of the pandemic. (Source: Child Indicators Research)
Source: Child Indicators Research - August 9, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
An Enhanced Stress-Buffering Model of Social Support on Mental Health Outcomes of Low-Income Children
AbstractLow-Income children are susceptible to mental health problems. While social support has been found to protect children from these issues, most studies focus on the frequency of support rather than the importance of support. The importance of support refers to subjective value that the child places on the support provided. The present study investigated whether social support from parents, teacher, classmates or close friends was related to internalizing and externalizing problems, in 513 low-income children between 7 and 12 years of age. We investigated if these associations followed a main effect model, stress-b...
Source: Child Indicators Research - August 8, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
The Child and Adolescent Thriving Index 1.0: Developing a Measure of the Outcome Indicators of Well-Being for Population Health Assessment
AbstractThe well-being of children and adolescents is emerging as an area of interest for population health measurement. Previous approaches assessing national and state trends in well-being have relied on composite indices. However, these methodologies suffer from several weaknesses. This paper develops an improved index for the United States that is measurable with existing population-data resources. It derives the appropriate weights for items in this index using a longitudinal panel of 2,942 children in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Candidate component measures are selected for the index based on their demonstrat...
Source: Child Indicators Research - August 6, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Adaptation of Emotional Flexibility Scale: Its Association with Subjective Well Being and Resilience During Covid-19 Pandemic
In this study, the validity and reliability of the Emotional Flexibility Scale were evaluated in a sample of adolescents in Turkey. A total of 833 high school students from 65 different cities participated in the study. Emotional flexibility, adolescent psychological resilience, and adolescents' subjective well-being Scales were used as data collection tools. For the adaptation of emotional flexibility scale, confirmatory factor analysis, convergent validity, and reliability analyses were used. Also, the mediating role of subjective well-being on the relationship between emotional flexibility and resilience was tested. Emo...
Source: Child Indicators Research - August 3, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Children ’s Media Use: Does It Matter for Social Adjustment during the Early School Transition?
This study examines whether children ’s media use can predict their social adjustment during the early transitional phase in Mainland China. This study adopted a random sample of 97 families with children aged 4–6 years during the early transition from April 2018 to June 2019 in a second-tier city in China. The amount of time child ren spent on media both in preschool and primary schools, types of media used by children and parents’ media use were examined through a longitudinal method. Results from ANOVA analysis, factor analysis and regression analysis showed that the total time children spent on media every day af...
Source: Child Indicators Research - July 25, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
