Behavior Of Young People Research Articles

A child care worker's casebook

Three child and youth care scenarios are presented, illustrating (1) how young people's behavior can obscure what they really need from us, (2) the empowerment and disempowerment of direct care workers and those in care, and (3) vicious cycles that can “catch” us if we are not alert to avoid them, followed by an analysis of the implications of each of the scenarios.

Enhancing young people's social competence and health behavior: An important challenge for educators, scientists, policymakers, and funders

Large numbers of America's young people engage in multiple high-risk behaviors that may jeopardize their health and social development. Given the gravity of this situation, many federal agencies and national organizations have called for the implementation of school-based K-12 social competence and health promotion programs. Unfortunately, there is a gap between the comprehensive programs that policymakers are asking educators to implement and the limited scope, duration, and intensity of state-of-the-art health promotion programs that scientists have developed and evaluated. As a result, most schools currently adopt well-marketed programs that lack documented effectiveness. Although current research indicates that brief, well-designed, theory-driven competence promotion and health education programs produce short-term benefits, there have been no controlled, longitudinal field studies to evaluate the long-term effects of K-12 efforts. This paper proposes that policymakers and funding agencies support long-term collaborations among educators and scientists to develop and evaluate K-12 comprehensive social competence and health education programs and identifies critical issues that funded projects should address.

When Worlds Collide: Young People, Drugs and ‘Responsible Adulthood’

Young people's behaviours which are problematic to parents and therapists are also found in the wider adult community. Here these behaviours are often accepted as normal and legitimate, and as such they may occur even in the lives of these same parents and therapists. This paper considers some of the issues this raises in working with young people and their families.

The Social Causes of Deviant Behavior in Young Women

In the past two or three years, a number of articles about prostitution have appeared in the periodical press. If we consolidate everything that has been published and broadcast on Central Television up to the present time, we see a number of serious, unresolved questions of an ethical-esthetic and legal character. There must be a discussion of the correlation between the state of prostitution in our country today and the level of sexual morality of the population itself; we need to examine the relationship between young people's immoral behavior (and not only theirs) and correct, informal, scientifically substantiated sex education of young people and adults (parents themselves).

Like parent like child? Associations between drinking and smoking behaviour of parents and their children

This paper examines the association between the smoking and drinking behaviours of parents and their adolescent children, and the effect of gender and social class upon this association. It is based on data collected from a cohort of young people and their parents, resident in the west of Scotland. Both social class and parental smoking behaviour were independently associated with young people's smoking, with young people from lower social class households or whose parents smoked being most likely to smoke. Social class and gender were independently associated with young people's drinking, with males and young people from non-manual households being most likely to drink. Parental drinking behaviour was associated positively with young people's drinking only in non-manual classes and among daughters. We conclude that it is important to take social class and gender into account since it may influence whether or not there is an association between the behaviour of young people and that of their parents, and it may influence young people's behaviour in addition to influences from parental behaviour.

Recent Studies of Mentally Handicapped Young People's Behaviour

A comprehensive review of recent advances in mental handicap would warrant several topic-specific year books. There are 91 regular scientific periodicals concerning mental handicap (Beh-Pajooh, 1990). The reader is referred to Clarke and Clarke (1987) for a selective review of research in mental handicap; O'Connor (1987) for a recent review of cognitive psychology and mental handicap; Corbett (1987) on development and dementia; Stern (1987) on biochemical progress in mental handicap; Fryers (1987) on epidemiological issues, and U.K. research in mental handicap (Griffin, 1989). We shall confine this paper to recent developments in understanding and management of Challenging Behaviours in the mentally handicapped child and adolescent, drawing selectively also from overlapping literature on Autism

Television and Young People's Reading Behaviour: A Review of Research

On the basis of the available research evidence this article examines whether television induces young people to read less and to develop a preference for qualitatively inferior reading material. Several hypotheses proposing mechanisms by which television is supposed to stimulate or reduce reading are discussed. The findings are inconclusive but most studies suggest that television reduces the amount of reading. Young people's reading preferences are influenced by television, because books, the film versions of which have been broadcast, gain in popularity. Whether or not television influences the development of a preference for easy reading material, such as comics and picture-dominated books has not been investigated. Suggestions are made to improve the conclusiveness of future research.

Understanding childrens' health behaviour: The implications for health promotion for young people

Understanding the causes and determinants of young people's health behaviour is central to the development of relevant and effective health promotion programmes. This paper traces the development of health education programmes in the past two decades, identifying the influence of a range of concepts and theories which emerged during that period. Drawing on results from a WHO Cross-National Study of children's health behaviour, the relationships between individual behaviours and a range of social and environmental influences are illustrated, together with the inter-relationship between individual behaviours as ‘lifestyles’. The implications for health education programmes from the results are identified and special emphasis is given to the need to communicate effectively with young people through a range of networks and through the media, as well as through traditional school health education. The need to continue research into ‘lifestyles’ is also stressed.

A STUDY OF YOUNG PEOPLE'S U-TURN BEHAVIOR IN “KASO” COMMUNITIES WITH RAPID DECREASE OF POPULATION

This study focused on young people's U-turn behavior, which was defined as young people returning to their rural village after having left to work in urban area.72 young people 19-29 years of age, who Uturned to their native villages were investigated at three “Kaso” villages (population decling village), Tonbara (Shimane Prefecture), Tsutsuga and Yoshiwa (Hiroshima Prefecture). All of these villages are remote and secluded in the Chugoku mountains. The U-turn group was compared with two other groups; (1) 183 young people who left their native villages to live in urban areas, and (2) 105 young people who never left their native villages.The main findings were as follows: (1) the subjects may be formed in three different types; (a) Urban-Oriented Type; those who were obliged to U-turn due to family circumstances though they had been satisfied with the urban life, (b) Urban-Rural Unsettled Type; those who were disappointed with urban life and were willing to Uturn to their native villages, and (c) RuralOriented Type; those who had to leave their native villages for urban areas in order to work or go to school, but did not want to live there, (2) most interestingly, all young people regardless of U-turn types, were satisfied with their life in the native village.

EDUCATION AND THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF TIME

ABSTRACT Social values and socially determined frames of reference are presented as an important source of cultural influence on young people's behaviour; the use of such concepts should further understanding of why social class has proved to be such an important factor in educational research. Several theories of social values are outlined, all of which make some reference to ideas about time, and it is argued that ideas about time, such as “future‐” versus"present‐orientation”, may be an important aspect of class‐bound behaviour, especially of young people in an educational system. A range of concepts and methods that have been applied in the social‐psychological study of time are critically outlined. Empirical research is reviewed in several areas of concern to educationists, for example: attitudes towards time, social class and culture; time, educational attainment and occupational aspiration. This existing research, although poorly developed conceptually and methodologically, is coherent enough to suggest that the social psychology of time is a significant topic that merits fuller examination.

'Connotations of Morality'; The Views of Some Adults on the Standards and Behaviour of Adolescents

^ N ANALYS I S of the climate of opinion on the moral standards > of young people as revealed in recent official reports and con£ Xferences shows a good deal of confusion and uncertainty about the facts and the interpretation of the facts supposedly indicative of values current among adolescents today.l The recent correspondence in fhe Times (Sept./Oct. I96I) initiated by the Rev. Leslie Weatherhead included a spate of assertions and counter-assertions from clergymen, doctors, sociologists, teachers, parents and even a few of the young people themselves. A study of these underlines the importance of attempting to clarify the various standpoints taken up by adults in contemporary society since their pronouncements inevitably influence the current image of 'young people' no less than the widely publicised commercial stereotypes of the 'teenager'. To this end a questionnaire was sent to Juvenile Court Magistrates, Probation Officers and Youth Leaders in London. This constituted an invitation to express their views on the values and standards of young people in contemporary society. 2 The objectives of this exploratory phase were to elucidate the connotations of 'moral' and 'morality' among some responsible and influential groups of adults in direct contact with young people and to assess the main moral qualities they regard as important. A further aim was to obtain information on how young people's behaviour is seen through the eyes of some adults in positions of authority. The adults from whom the opinions were elicited fall into two categories-(I) those whose role is to administer the maintenance of law and order, to deal with offenders, and to handle the social problems of young people; (2) those who deal with young people in their leisure time, fulfilling a role which is primarily that of leader or benefactor. The respondents were not asked to give their names, only age, sex, and category being required. It is, 243