Search results for "Youth."

Religiosity and Spirituality: Resources for positive youth development

Leisure, Social Capital and Life Turns in Deviant Youth

2017

Brief review of the literature on the creation of social capital within leisure time contexts to a notion of social capital in terms of “relational goods” (Arai, Pedlar, 1997; Blackshaw, Long, 2005; Hemingway, 1999) It. Claims that such studies focus both on the availability of leisure time among people belonging to different social groups and on the relation between the amount of leisure time, its allocation and the construction of social capital in the community by means of the activities people do during such time (Rohe, 2004). I discuss some studies regarding the ways in which a particular age range - youth - produces social capital in leisure time contexts and I focus on some studies r…

Media/Digital Competence. The European and Italian Definition

2016

In 2007, the European Union Commission issued a Communication titled A European approach to media literacy in the digital environment where media literacy is clearly defined as “the ability to access the media, to understand and to critically evaluate different aspects of the media and media contents and to create communications in a variety of contexts” (European Commission, 2007: 3). This paper discusses this definition and present the Italian way to it.

Promoting Adolescent health through an intervention aimed at improving the quality of their participation in Physical Activity (PAPA): Background to …

2013

International audience; Funded by the European Commission, the Promoting Adolescent health through an intervention is aimed at improving the quality of their participation in Physical Activity (PAPA) project revolved around the potential of youth sport to promote children's mental and emotional health and physical activity engagement. A theoretically grounded coach education training programme (i.e. Empowering CoachingTM), which was designed to create a sporting environment which was more positive and adaptive for young children, was customised for grassroots soccer, delivered and evaluated via a multi-method cluster RCT across five European countries; namely, England, France, Greece, Norwa…

Effectiveness of a mobile app intervention to prevent dating violence in residential child care

2020

ABSTRACT This study focuses on the effectiveness of an app-based, monitored intervention using the Liad@s app in a residential youth-care setting. The aim of this intervention is to reduce maladaptive beliefs and attitudes linked to dating violence: distortions or myths about romantic love and hostile and benevolent dimensions of sexism. A quasi-experimental pre-post study with a control group was carried out. Participants were 71 adolescents from 9 group homes in Valencia (Spain). The outcomes measures were hostile and benevolent sexism (Ambivalent Sexism Inventory - ASI), ambivalence and prejudice towards men (Ambivalence toward Men Inventory - AMI), and myths about romantic love. The res…

What keeps young adults in permanent poverty? A comparative analysis using ECHP

2009

Abstract Previous studies suggest that there are strong differences in the rates of youth poverty across European countries. Rather surprisingly, it is found to be high in Scandinavian countries, and relatively speaking, lower in Mediterranean and Anglo-Saxon countries. This somewhat unexpected finding prompts the question whether the incidence of poverty is an appropriate measure of youth disadvantage. Instead of considering poverty rates we consider the length of recorded poverty spells, taking into account explicitly the temporal sequencing of the episodes of poverty. Using the European Community Household Panel, individuals are classified into different groups of poverty permanence, eac…

Being an athlete and being a young person: Technologies of the self in managing an athletic career in youth ice hockey in Finland

2018

Engaging in youth sports is a major investment, and it requires choosing and balancing between an athlete’s life and other practices and ways of life important to adolescents. In this Foucauldian year-long ethnographic study on Finnish 18–20-year-old elite male ice hockey players I consider an athletic career as a moral question and examine what aspects of their behaviour are affected when these players submit to the external and internal control they encounter when advancing themselves and their careers, and how they problematize the codes that govern their actions. The players expressed six modes of subjection altogether that were important to cultivation of the self: exercising, nutriti…

Jauniešu ar zemu izglītību iekļaušanās darba tirgū Latvijā

2013

Anotācija Promocijas darba nosaukums: Jauniešu ar zemu izglītību iekļaušanās darba tirgū Latvijā Promocijas darba autors: Mg.soc. Mareks Niklass Promocijas darba vadītājs: prof. Dr.soc. Aivars Tabuns Promocijas darba mērķis ir noskaidrot faktorus, kuri kavē vai veicina jauniešu ar zemu izglītību iekļaušanos darba tirgū Latvijā, kā arī pārbaudīt Herberta Saimona ierobežotās racionalitātes teorijas, Ulriha Beka riska sabiedrības teorijas un Marka Granovettera vājo saišu teoriju validitāti. Darbā autors izvirza šādu hipotēzi: jaunieši ar zemu izglītību racionālu apsvērumu vadīti nokļūst labklājības slazdā, kas liedz viņiem iespēju iegūt darba pieredzi un kontaktus, kā arī ierobežo viņu karjera…

Sociālo tīklu lietošanas paradumu atšķirības latviešu un igauņu jauniešu auditorijā: Valkas/Valgas piemērs

2015

Bakalaura darba tēma ir latviešu un igauņu jauniešu sociālo tīklu lietošanas paradumi. Mūsdienās ir plašs sociālo tīklu izvēles klāsts, no kā jaunieši var izvēlēties izmantot sev vēlamos, bet tas katram indivīdam var atšķirties, tāpat kā to lietošanas paradumi. Bakalaura darba mērķis ir noskaidrot latviešu un igauņu jauniešu sociālo tīklu lietošanas paradumu atšķirības, kuras var radīt abu valstu atšķirīgā mediju lietotprasmes iesaiste skolu mācību programmās. Darba teorijas daļā tiek apskatīta mediju lietotprasme, sociālo tīklu attīstība, digitālās paaudzes jēdziens, atklājumi par jauniešu drošību un privātumu sociālajos tīklos, kā arī lietojuma un apmierinājuma teorija. Ar anketēšanas un …

Children born of War and Social Trust - Analyzing Consequences of Rejection

2017

AbstractThis article examines the question whether rejection experiences negatively relate to the social trust of Children Born of War (CBOW) and if this connection is mediated by sense of self-worth. CBOW is a group of people born out of relations during war- and post-war times, involving one parent being a foreign soldier, a para-military officer, rebel or other person directly participating in the hostilities, while the other parent is a member of the native population. Also children born to child soldiers and children fathered by members of a peacekeeping troop are included within this group. These children, due to their biological background, often grow up in a surrounding in which the…