Competing Discourses in the Child Protection System in Kyrgyzstan: Implications for Redressing Gender Violence Against Girls
AbstractThis paper explores competing discourses within state-sponsored social protection practices in Kyrgyzstan paying particular attention to how gender equality is integrated into the everyday work of professionals. Using Dorothy Smith ’s institutional ethnography framework, this article’s analysis focuses on the invisible ruling processes dominating local activities and on prevailing narratives about the family, the state, and the roles of women and men therein. Primary data included 60 in-depth interviews with representative s of state-funded institutions whose mandates comprise guaranteeing safe and violence-fre...
Source: Child Indicators Research - January 15, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Children ’s understanding of the concept of social stereotypes
AbstractThis qualitative study aims to learn about the stereotypes and experiences of 14-year-old students in Denizli, Turkey. Acquisitions of stereotypes in Turkey are included in Social Studies Curriculum at 6th and 7th grades (12 –13 years old) in secondary school. For this reason, the study group was formed considering that a 14-year-old student had knowledge and experience related to stereotypes and that 12 students were volunteers. A semi-structured interview form was used to collect data. The data obtained from the in terviews are organized in the form of codes, categories, and themes. Direct quotations are inclu...
Source: Child Indicators Research - January 15, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Childhood Geography: a study about Children ’s Satisfaction with Housing in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
This article presents the study of the characteristics and infrastructure of houses inhabited by children and their satisfaction with them. It embraces a sample of 580 12-year-olds children, living in the district of General Pueyrred ón (PGP), an area located in the Southeast of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. This survey was carried out in the framework of the research project acknowledged by the LOMASCyT Program of the National University of Lomas de Zamora, Argentina and developed by the UNICOM-Institute of Social S tudies, of the School of Social Sciences. Specifically the core of this research considered the ...
Source: Child Indicators Research - January 9, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Psychological Well-Being and Social Competence During Adolescence: Longitudinal Association Between the Two Phenomena
AbstractDespite previous research on adolescence points to an association between social competence and well-being, limited knowledge is available. Most studies have documented a one-way pattern of influence, although reciprocity has also been suggested. However, they mainly use a cross-sectional design, do not focus on psychological well-being, and do not use integrative and multidimensional constructs. From a eudaimonic approach to well-being and situation-specific to social competence, this study aimed to: (1) explore the factorial structure of the dimensions assessed; (2) analyse the longitudinal relationship between p...
Source: Child Indicators Research - January 7, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Benefits of Positive Psychology-Based Story Reading on Adolescent Mental Health and Well-Being
This study investigated the effects of story reading interventions on both positive and negative indicators of mental health over time for a group of Turkish grade 10 high school students (n?=?53). These included 33 students in a story reading group and 20 in a control group for comparison. The results showed that story reading led to improvement in students’ mindfulness, optimism, happiness, and positive emotions, and also caused reduction in depression, anxiety, pessimism, and other negative emotions over a 5-week period, with a small to large effect sizes. The obtained results are discussed in the context of their impli...
Source: Child Indicators Research - January 6, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Mental Health: When Well-Being Matters
This study analyzed the relation between Subjective Well-Being, Adverse Childhood Experiences and Mental Health in Chilean children and adolescents. It evaluated the cumulative effect of adverse experienses and subjective well-being. The sample included 2699 children and adolescents from 11 municipal educational establishments of the Antofagasta Region, Chile. All were in the 6th to 12th grades; 52.1% (n ?=?1405) identified as female; ages ranged from 11 to 17 years (Mean?=?14.35 years, SD?=?1.82). We evaluated Well-Being, Adversities and Mental Health with the Kidscreen-27, Inventary of Adversities and PSC-17, respectivel...
Source: Child Indicators Research - January 6, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Child Well-Being in Latin America: contributions to child indicators research
AbstractThis Special Issue was compiled to advance an interdisciplinary understanding of the complexity of conceptualizations, determinants, consequences, and measurement of child well-being of children and adolescents fully devoted to Latin-American. It seeks to enhance by contributing with studies on socioeconomic determinants and access to material goods, as well as regarding the conditions of urban life, the school, the neighbourhood, including personal aspects, while considering contributions in instrumental resources for research. This is an important step forward for the well-being researchers in a region of the wor...
Source: Child Indicators Research - January 5, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Mind the Gap! Socioeconomic Determinants of the Stunting Urban-Rural Gap for Children in Colombia
AbstractStunting (low height for age) is a crucial indicator for measuring child well-being and economic and social development of a country. Despite a decrease in overall children ’s stunting in the last decades, there are still significant geographic disparities between urban and rural areas in Colombia. This paper aims to identify the role of the main determinants of children’s stunting in explaining the urban-rural stunting gap. We use data from the 2015 National Nutri tional Situation Survey (the most recent available dataset) and the Yun’s statistical decomposition technique. We find that the urban-rural gap in child...
Source: Child Indicators Research - January 4, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Understanding and Measuring Child Well-Being in the Region of Attica, Greece: Round Two
AbstractThis paper aims to present the results of implementing a new, multi-dimensional, and cumulative tool that records child well-being in the first semester of the school year 2019 –2020, which is the second round of an ongoing research. The tool was applied in Attica through questionnaires addressing 30 schools and 3 support centers for children and families of the organization The Smile of the Child (thirty-three bodies in total). The total number of children participating in the sample was 1,171, belonging to three distinct school categories: 6th grade of elementary school (10–11 years old), 3rd grade of junior high...
Source: Child Indicators Research - January 4, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Measuring Overcrowding in Households with Children: Official vs. Actual Thresholds in the Ecuadorian Case
In conclusion, the Ecuadorian government and other authorities that have established thei r household overcrowding classification arbitrarily should re-evaluate their official criteria, setting a threshold at which household density starts to deteriorate the health outputs of the household members. In fact, it may be useful to discuss and incorporate a refined definition of overcrowding, which could include other considerations than just density (e.g., an age limit for children for sharing a bedroom and gender separation), taking the restrictions of a developing country into account, in this case. Moreover, an official cla...
Source: Child Indicators Research - January 3, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
A robust statistical tool to measure African governments ’ commitment to girls’ rights: The Girl-Friendliness Index
AbstractThe Girl-Friendliness Index (GFI) is a statistical tool developed to comprehensively assess the performance of African governments in realising the rights and wellbeing of girls. The framework is composed of three central pillars of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC) which deal with girls ’ rights to: Protection, Provision and Participation. The construction of the index follows standard procedures. Detailed statistical analysis was also carried out to test and evaluate the strength and reliability of the tool. The analysis confirme...
Source: Child Indicators Research - December 3, 2021 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
A robust statistical tool to measure African governments ’ commitment to girls’ rights: The Girl-Friendliness Index
AbstractThe Girl-Friendliness Index (GFI) is a statistical tool developed to comprehensively assess the performance of African governments in realising the rights and wellbeing of girls. The framework is composed of three central pillars of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC) which deal with girls ’ rights to: Protection, Provision and Participation. The construction of the index follows standard procedures. Detailed statistical analysis was also carried out to test and evaluate the strength and reliability of the tool. The analysis confir...
Source: Child Indicators Research - December 3, 2021 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
A Comparative Time-Diary Analysis of UK and US Children ’s Screen Time and Device Use
AbstractThis paper presents the results of a comparative analysis of the time school-age children 8-17 years in the UK and the US spent using devices such as smartphones and tablets, and their time in screen-based activities such as watching TV and playing videogames in 2014-15. The paper draws on innovative instruments measuring children ’s time using technology and engaging with screens in these two countries. We find that in both, children’s time using devices overlaps with time in screen-based activities, non-screen leisure, and non-leisure activities. Children in the UK spend more time using devices than children in t...
Source: Child Indicators Research - December 2, 2021 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
When the Family Occupies the Future – Self-Processes and Well-Being of Kyrgyz Children and Young People
AbstractThe paper focuses on the question of how young people in the post-Soviet country of Kyrgyzstan deal with the structural and cultural demands of a society characterized by strong obligations of intergenerational solidarity and the normative pattern of submission under the authority of elders. Based on three preponderantly qualitative empirical studies on kindergarten children, teenagers and young adults, young people ’s commitment to that order is mapped out, defining their reasons for acceptance on the one hand and the limits of their acceptance on the other hand. Concerning the latter, a special focus is laid on p...
Source: Child Indicators Research - December 2, 2021 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
A Comparative Time-Diary Analysis of UK and US Children ’s Screen Time and Device Use
AbstractThis paper presents the results of a comparative analysis of the time school-age children 8-17 years in the UK and the US spent using devices such as smartphones and tablets, and their time in screen-based activities such as watching TV and playing videogames in 2014-15. The paper draws on innovative instruments measuring children ’s time using technology and engaging with screens in these two countries. We find that in both, children’s time using devices overlaps with time in screen-based activities, non-screen leisure, and non-leisure activities. Children in the UK spend more time using devices than children ...
Source: Child Indicators Research - December 2, 2021 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
