Identifying Important Factors to Prevent Juvenile Delinquency among Male and Female Adolescents: an Exploratory Analysis Using the LASSO Regression Algorithm in the Korean Children and Youth Panel Survey (KCYPS)
This study employed the Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO) regression as an exploratory analysis to identify important factors related to juvenile delinquency and compared coefficients of each factor in the model. The results showed that individual factors, including cyber delinquency, aggression, romantic relationships, following school rules, engagement in learning activities at school, academic confidence in Korean, English, and math, relationships with teachers, peer relationships, social withdrawal, and mobile phone dependency, were relatively important factors of delinquency for both females and ...
Source: Child Indicators Research - February 3, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Self-Compassion Scale for Youth: Turkish Adaptation and Exploration of the Relationship with Resilience, Depression, and Well-being
AbstractSelf-compassion refers to being kind, understanding, and accepting toward oneself in times of failure, frustration, or negative feelings. Since self-compassion is related to both physical and psychological well-being, measuring and understanding self-compassion in different populations carries importance for their mental well-being and life satisfaction outcomes. One such group is the youth, who experience unique developmental challenges. For this purpose, a Self-Compassion Scale for Youth (SCS-Y) was developed (Neff et al.,2021) and this paper presents its Turkish adaptation. The Turkish translation of SCS-Y was t...
Source: Child Indicators Research - January 29, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
School and Neighborhood Relationships that Affect Well-Being Based on Chilean Children and Adolescent ’s Understandings
This article studies the perceptions that Chilean children and adolescents hold about the personal and distinctive qualities of their relationships in both the school and neighborhood contexts associated with the experience of well-being using a qualitative methodological framework. It takes as its foundation the relevance of studying well-being from an ecological perspective to help identify and differentiate the processes and dynamics that take place in the multiple contexts of daily life and delves into their effects on the well-being experience of children and adolescents. A sample of 21 children and adolescents betwee...
Source: Child Indicators Research - January 29, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Understanding and Measuring Child Well-Being in the Region of Attica, Greece: Round Three
AbstractThis research paper aims to present the results of implementing a new multi-dimensional and cumulative tool that records child well-being, in the 2nd semester of the school year 2019 –2020, which is the third round of an ongoing research. It also presents the results of the same year as a whole, in order to investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the well-being of children. The tool was applied in Attica through questionnaires, addressing 22 public schools and three support centers of the organization, The Smile of the Child (25 units in total). The number of children in the sample was 560, belonging ...
Source: Child Indicators Research - January 28, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Psychometric Properties of Children ’s Subjective Well-Being Scales: a Multigroup Study Investigating School Type, Gender, Age and Region of Children in the South and Southeast Regions of Brazil
This study is part of the third wave of data collection of the international project “Children’s Worlds” (Children ’s Worlds, the International Survey of Children’s Well-Being – ISCWeB). The objective was to check the psychometric properties of three child subjective well-being scales—theChildren ’s Worlds Subjective Well-Being Scale (CW-SWBS), theChildren ’s Worlds Domain-Based Subjective Well-Being Scale (CW-DBSWBS), and theOverall Life Satisfaction (OLS) —in relation to school type, gender, age, and residential region. The research was conducted in the metropolitan regions of the states of Rio ...
Source: Child Indicators Research - January 24, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Integration, Social Competence and Life Satisfaction: the Mediating Effect of Resilience and Self-Esteem in Adolescents
This study aimed to analyze the mediating role of self-esteem and resilience in the relationship between social competence and life satisfaction in adolescents from northern Chile. The sample consisted of 2277 students aged 12 –18 years. Self-report scales were used to measure levels of self-esteem and social competence (System of Evaluation of Children and Adolescents; Sistema de Evaluación de Niños y Adolescentes, SENA), resilience (Child and Youth Resilience Measure, CYRM-12), and life satisfaction (Satisfaction w ith Life Scale-Child, SWLS-C). The data were analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling. The results ...
Source: Child Indicators Research - January 23, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Subjective Well-being of Brazilian Children Over Time: Comparing Children ’s Worlds 1st and 3rd Wave of 10 and 12-year-olds Samples
This study aims to verify differences in the subjective well-being of 10 and 12 years old Brazilian boys and girls over time using data from the First (2012) and the Third (2019) Wave of Brazilian data collection on Children's Worlds research. Participants of the first wave were 2,338 children (M = 11.08 years old, 55.3% girls) and of the third wave, they were 1,787 children (M = 11.33 years old, 55.3% girls). We performed a Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) with subjective well-being scales (OLS, PWI-SC and BMSLSS) used as dependent variables, and age, gender and times of measurement (wave of data col...
Source: Child Indicators Research - January 23, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Psychometric Properties of the Community Sense Scale in the Classroom in a sample of Chilean students
AbstractIt is only recently that the sense of community in contexts other than the neighborhood has started to be studied, providing evidence on the associations between this variable in the school environment and various dimensions of integral development in childhood and adolescence. However, in the Latin American context, there are no validated scales to perform these measurements. The present study examined the structure, reliability and convergent validity of the Community Sense Scale in the Classroom (SCo-SC) proposed by Petrillo, Capone and Donizzetti. The participants of the study were 1065 students aged 10 to 12 f...
Source: Child Indicators Research - January 22, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Youths ’ Perceptions Of The Relation Between Alcohol Consumption And Risky Sexual Behaviour in the Western Cape, South Africa: A Qualitative Study
AbstractThe purpose of this study is to explore the factors that youth identify as contributing to alcohol consumption, and more specifically its relation to risky sexual behaviour among youth. We employed an exploratory qualitative method using focus group discussions with 34 young people between the ages of 18-25-years-old in low socio-economic status communities in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Data were analyzed thematically utilizing Braun and Clarke ’s (2006) six-step thematic analysis process. We identified two thematic domains pertaining to alcohol consumption and risky sexual behaviour, namely indiv...
Source: Child Indicators Research - January 20, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Youth and Adolescents ’ Perceptions of Violence in Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Systematic Review of the Literature
AbstractThe history of South Africa is embedded in violence. Exposure to various forms of violence is a consistent experience of children, adolescents, and young people in this context, negatively impacting various aspects of their lives and overall quality of life. However, these experiences of violence have been narrated from an adult-centric perspective. The current study thus aims to systematically review and synthesis existing empirical studies focusing on youth and adolescents’ perceptions of violence in post-apartheid South Africa. We identified 34 articles that were included in the final review, with study...
Source: Child Indicators Research - January 19, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Stunting, a linear growth anomaly in under-five year (U5) children: A risk factors ’ analysis from maternal, household and individual background in Indian context
In this study, it was found that maternal, household and individual level risk factors were the potent determinants of stunting phenomena among the children of under five years age. Early Interventions programs are very much needed to obviate stunting emphasising on male children, a child with higher birth order and children belonging to the poorest socio-economic status. (Source: Child Indicators Research)
Source: Child Indicators Research - January 18, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Profiles of Young Children Involved with Child Protection Services in Portugal
AbstractMany maltreated young children have their first contact with Child Protective Services (CPS) through Emergency Shelter Care (ESC) in response to an immediate need for protection or to complete a case diagnosis and placement decision. However, little is known about the characteristics of young children at the entry point into ESC, such as risk and protective factors and, in particular, their family characteristics. The purpose of this study is to identify the profiles of families and young children who have been removed from their families and placed in ESC. We did so with a needs-led and evidence-based methodology,...
Source: Child Indicators Research - January 18, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
The Developmental Trajectories of Prosocial Behavior in Adolescence: a Growth-Mixture Model
AbstractThe individual differences between the emerging onset and tracing patterns of prosocial behavior ’s developmental trajectory remain relatively unclear, although the general developmental trajectory of prosocial behavior in adolescence is well established. The goals of this study were (1) to explore discrete classes of developmental trajectories of prosocial behavior over time and (2) to ident ify predictors that classify the distinctive latent classes in developmental trajectories across time. Data for this study originated from the Korean Children Youth Panel Survey (KCYPS). The KCYPS is an annual longitudinal p...
Source: Child Indicators Research - January 16, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
The Influence of Developmental Contexts in Adolescent ’s Expected Sociopolitical Participation through the Sense of Unity: An Analysis of the Mediation Model Invariance through Sex, Age, and Socioeconomic Status
AbstractCivic engagement plays a positive role in adolescent wellbeing, as well as being the basis for maintaining a democratic society. This research analyzed how perceived support from developmental contexts contributes to adolescent civic engagement –assessed through their expectations of future sociopolitical participation–, mediated by sense of unity, and differences according to sex, age, and socioeconomic status. The sample included 3,715 participants (13–18 years old) from the 2019OPINA Barometer who were selected using multistage random sampling stratified by conglomerates. The measures assessed sex, age, f...
Source: Child Indicators Research - January 16, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Gratitude Intervention and Subjective Well-Being in Indian Adolescents: Examining the Moderating Effects of Self-Esteem
AbstractIn the past decade, positive psychology interventions (PPIs) have been a subject of research focusing on methods for increasing individual ’s well-being and happiness. To date, however, the findings are conflicting vis-a-vis the efficacy of these interventions. Thus, a 6-week longitudinal study (N = 385) was designed to examine the immediate and long-term payoffs of practicing specific PPIs, such as counting one’s blessings (CB) and visualizing best possible selves (BPS) in promoting subjective well-being (SWB) in Indian sample. Adolescents performed one of the three exercises for 2-wee ks and were asked to ...
Source: Child Indicators Research - January 16, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
