Lives Of Young People Research Articles

The influence of the residential environment on well-being and personal projects: Perspectives of young people living in public housing

Public housing provides low-income households with affordable housing. The few studies of young public housing residents have focused on the negative aspects of these residential environments, such as the presence of economic hardship or substance abuse. Few studies have looked at the possible positive influence of public housing on the lives of the young people who live there. This qualitative study explores the influence of housing and neighborhood on the well-being and personal projects of young people living in public housing. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 30 young people aged 14 to 20 living in public housing in a large city in Quebec, Canada. A thematic analysis led to the identification of five themes that describe the components of the residential environment that influence young people's well-being and personal projects: 1) parks, playgrounds and nature, 2) services and activities, 3) privacy, 4) relations with the neighborhood; and 5) the quality of the built environment. Implications for environmental psychologists and for improving public policies and supporting the well-being of young people living in public housing are discussed.

New consumption trends in the use of social networks and video games, problematic consumption, and the phenomenon of online gambling.

The inappropriate use of electronic devices can affect the psychological and physical health of children and adolescents. Therefore, it is essential to accompany them and promote media literacy to ensure a healthy and responsible use of technology. On occasions that depend on a multifactorial complex, the inappropriate use of networks can trigger problematic consumption and seriously affect the lives of young people. In 2022, the World Health Organization recognized, through ICD-11, the addiction to video games and used the term "problematic use" for the Internet and social networks. This article attempts to update professionals on new trends in the consumption of social networks, video games, and online gambling platforms and their consequences on the psychophysical well-being of children and adolescents.

Sero-Kinship: How Young People Living With HIV/AIDS Survive in Southeast Nigeria.

Research on the lived experiences of HIV survivors, including young people living with HIV, has primarily emphasized broader sociocultural concerns, such as stigmatization and cultural attitudes toward sexuality and gender, while giving less attention to the interconnectedness of these issues with the mental well-being of those affected by the illness. This study, drawing on relational ethnography including observations and interviews at four antiretroviral-administering healthcare facilities in Enugu State, southeast Nigeria, explores how young people living with HIV strive toward viral suppression and how they develop collaborative psychosocial support along with the global efforts in eradicating the HIV epidemic. We found that, in and between themselves, young people living with HIV weave for themselves a network of relationships, though discreetly, to foster and encourage survivorship. Such relatedness, where mutual trust and support have emerged and rebuilt HIV survivors' faith in a livable life, forms what we conceptualize as "sero-kinship." That is, sero-kinship, which focuses on how people create and change meanings in their everyday lives that ultimately contribute to controlling HIV and treatment management, forms an essential foundation on which a life with HIV becomes thinkable, bearable, then manageable, and acceptable.

Time for tough conversations: Ableism in the life journey of young adults with visual impairment

Background: Visual impairment (VI) profoundly impacts many aspects of life and is well documented in various cross-sectional studies. Young people’s views on growing up with VI are largely unexplored in the Indian context. Aim: This study explores a critical concept called “ableism” as they navigate through childhood and adolescence. Materials and Methods: The study used an exploratory research design, with QUAL+ QUAN methodology, where the data collection occurred almost simultaneously, and the qualitative was the dominant method. For the quantitative data collection , seventy youth with visual impairment aged 18-25 years were recruited through convenient and snowball sampling. For the qualitative data collection, 20 were selected based on purposive sampling. Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10) was used with 70 participants as part of quantitative data collection. An empirically based interview guide encouraged participants’ reflection on growing up with VI, including the internal and external age-normative and vision-specific challenges. The interviews were analyzed using thematic analysis. Results: Thirty percent of the participants reported psychological distress at varying levels from mild to severe. The account of growing up with VI also centered on a theme labeled “ableism.” Six subthemes representing “ableism” are 1) invasion or avoidance, 2) you achieve, and I will respect, 3) disgraceful experiences, 4) you are our inspirational meme, 5) double vulnerability, and 6) internalized ableism. Each subtheme discusses different forms of ableism experienced by young people with VI. Conclusion: Findings are discussed in relation to the limiting attitude and structure of the society that affects the lives of young people with VI. They highlight the need to understand the nuances of ableism which helps to revisit and reflect as a society.

MÉTODOS DE MOTIVAÇÃO PARA AUMENTAR A PARTICIPAÇÃO DOS ESTUDANTES EM AULAS DE EDUCAÇÃO FÍSICA

Motivation methods in physical education are essential for engaging students and increasing their active participation in classes. These strategies aim not only to improve students’ physical performance, but also to promote a positive attitude towards physical activity, which can last a lifetime. One of the most effective techniques is personalization of teaching, which considers individual student preferences and adapts activities to suit different levels of ability and interest. Another important method is the use of games and playful activities, which transform exercise into a fun and less intimidating experience. This can be particularly effective for students who may feel anxious or reluctant to participate in traditional physical activities. Additionally, setting clear, achievable goals can motivate students, providing them with a sense of accomplishment as they progress. Continuous positive feedback also plays a crucial role in motivating students. Recognizing effort, not just success, encourages all students to continue participating and improving. Likewise, social inclusion through group activities can improve cooperation and interaction between students, increasing motivation and participation. In this way, the integration of technology, such as fitness applications and interactive games, can attract students’ interest in the novelty and connection with digital technology, elements already integrated into the daily lives of many young people. By implementing these strategies, educators can create a more inclusive and stimulating learning environment that not only improves students’ physical health but also builds their confidence and interest in maintaining an active lifestyle.

"I Want Everybody to Know as Much of My Life Story as They Can": Life Stories of Former Foster Youth.

The power of stories shared by young people in foster care is well-documented. Largely left unexplored is a story of foster care that is told within a fuller context of the life course. Using narrative and life history methods, this study sought to retrospectively identify and connect life experiences in histories of young people and explore how systems are portrayed. Twelve adults formerly in foster care completed three interviews each and nominated six professionals from foster care for an interview. A three-phase analytical process identified and displayed themes across six developmental stages. Results suggest that life stories contained adversities that were: (1) intergenerational, (2) chronic, (3) complex, and (4) structural. The participants intentionally acted to try to mitigate adversities by accessing opportunities for prosocial pathways. These exploratory findings challenge child welfare policy and practice to attend to young people's life stories and their conceptions of systems that advance well-being.

Implementing the Quality of Life and Potential of Social Farming

<p style="text-align:justify">The present study explores the Quality of Life (QoL) of young people with intellectual disabilities engaged in a social farming initiative, known as ‘‘Tuttincampo: Social Farming and Inclusivity’’. The project stands as an innovative approach to improving social inclusion and providing vocational education and training. The initiative seeks to offer a viable alternative to traditional rehabilitation day centers by establishing a network of both public and private institutions. To explore the QoL of the young people we analyze data from the Personal Outcome Scale (POS), a tool that investigates the perception of QoL through self-assessment and hetero-assessment. Data were collected at the beginning and at the end of the social agriculture project. The results obtained confirm the importance of planning pedagogical actions to support social inclusion and vocational training for people with intellectual disabilities, highlighting, as well, the potential of social farming as a new “space” to achieve a higher level of QoL.</p>

RELIGIOUS IMPLICATORS OF AN INDIVIDUAL'S SENSE OF SECURITY

ABSTRACT: Aim: The aim of the study was to capture the relationship between the subjective sense of security and the religiosity of youth. The goal was to identify those areas of the sense of security that correlate with elements constituting the sense of security and to capture differences between the genders of the participants. Methods: The study used Z. Uchnast's Security Feeling Questionnaire and R. Jaworski's Personal Religiosity Scale. A total of 112 individuals aged 19 to 28 participated in the study. Statistical analyses were conducted using Statistica software, employing non-parametric tests due to the non-normality of distributions. Results: The highest average ratings by participants concerned the sense of closeness (M=2,56), while stability (M=1,99) and trust (M=2,03) were rated lower. Gender analysis showed significant differences, with women rating their overall sense of security higher than men. Overall religiosity showed low but statistically significant correlations with self-trust and other dimensions of security, indicating positive associations with higher levels of religious engagement. Conclusion: Religiosity may serve a supportive role in building a sense of security, particularly through aspects of trust and closeness in interpersonal relationships. Further research is needed to better understand these mechanisms and to explore how other demographic variables may influence these relationships. Oryginality: Dynamic changes in postmodernism, introducing chaos into the lives of young people, imply a sense of threat. Therefore, it is important to periodically conduct studies monitoring the state of personal religiosity, which is strongly stigmatized today yet simultaneously constitutes a positive predictor of the sense of security. The originality of the article is indicated by the results of scientific research and the conclusions drawn from them. Keywords: security, sense of security, closeness, stability, trust, religiosity, personal religiosity, impersonal religiosity, faith, morality.

Social Media Use and Sleep Quality Among Secondary School Students in Aseer Region: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Use of different social media platforms has increased radically over the past decade, emerging as an important part of adolescents and young people's everyday life. This might exert potential adverse effects on sleep quality and daytime performance of young adults. To assess the relation between use of social media platforms and sleep quality among public secondary school students. A cross-sectional study was conducted on 961 students in Aseer region, Saudi Arabia. Students were asked to fill in a structured interview questionnaire covering personal data, pattern of social media use, sleep quality using The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and their mental health status using the depression, anxiety and stress scale (DASS-21). Students' ages ranged from 15 to 20 years with a mean age of 16.7 ± 2.1 years old. A total of 570 (59.3%) students were females. Tiktok (80%), Snapchat (77.9%), Instagram (63.8%) and YouTube (58.8%) were the most reported platforms used. Regarding their sleep quality, 34.7% of students were poor sleepers. TikTok use (OR 1.33, 95% CI 1.01-1.77), hours spent on social media (OR 1.26, 95% CI 1.16-1.37) and having moderate to severe depressive symptoms (OR 1.69, 95% CI 1.19-2.40) were significant independent predictors of poor sleep among the studied sample. The present study emphasized the association between prolonged use of social media and poor sleep quality among Saudi adolescents. Awareness and behavioral change strategies and activities concerning the drawbacks of poor sleep and proper use of social media are urgently called for to control mental and physical health consequences of poor sleep and social media addiction.

Цифровая идентичность и гуманистическая модель цифровой образовательной среды

The article is devoted to the problems of subjective and personal self-determination of students in the situation of contact with the infocommunication environment, in particular, to the analysis of “digital identity”, symbolizing the emergence of a new modality of individual identification in virtual space. The methodological basis of the study was philosophical, axiological and systemic approaches. In addition, the possibilities of the method of existential analytics are used, which make it possible to explore not only ontological, but also the value-semantic contexts of the formation of personal identity, allowing us to consider the essence of “I” in the unique unity of its personal qualities, as well as content analysis as the optimal diagnostic tool network identity. The article conceptualizes the concept of “digital identity”. It is shown that the representation of the life of young people in a virtual environment, as one of the forms of successful socialization, as well as the possibility of constructing a virtual personality and its self-presentation in the external environment with the help of ideal self-images, determine the projective nature of digital identity, which is, ultimately, a set of projections of real identity, translated using digital technologies into a sign-symbolic context. Based on examples of the reverse influence of online identity on the real one, a conclusion is made about the emergence of a tendency to blur the lines between them, marking the beginning of the process of merging digital and real identities. The result of the study is a humanistic model of the digital educational environment (DEL), which sets the main variable vectors for its development and implementation, taking into account the creative potential of a particular teacher, the conditions of the educational organization, the socio-pedagogical and socio-psychological specifics of students.

Unraveling School Adolescent Depression: Insights into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Adolescent depression presents a significant global mental health concern, exerting profound impacts on various facets of young people's lives. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has emerged as a leading intervention for tackling adolescent depression, grounded in principles derived from cognitive theory. This review delves into the effectiveness, mechanisms, and outcomes of CBT in addressing adolescent depression, synthesizing findings from a range of empirical studies including randomized controlled trials, meta-analyses, and systematic reviews. The review underscores the consistent efficacy of CBT in diminishing depressive symptoms among adolescents, elucidating mechanisms such as cognitive restructuring and behavioral activation that underpin its therapeutic effects. Additionally, CBT yields favorable outcomes beyond mere symptom reduction, encompassing enhancements in social connections and academic performance. Nonetheless, challenges such as limited accessibility and hurdles in engaging adolescents persist in CBT implementation. To surmount these obstacles, forthcoming research ought to concentrate on devising innovative delivery approaches, such as internet-based interventions and school-centered programs. In essence, CBT stands as a pivotal component in the treatment of adolescent depression, furnishing a holistic framework to address the intricate interplay of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral elements, thereby fostering the mental well-being of adolescents on a global scale.

지방자치단체의 청년 문화예술 정책 개선 방안

In this study, we revealed the current state of youth culture from the perspective of generation theory and sought ways to improve it by analyzing ordinances supporting youth culture and arts that are currently being actively enacted or revised. The current youth policy, which is centered around job policies, is silent on not only the issue of economic poverty but also the issue of cultural poverty among young people. In addition, as recent social issues such as hatred and generational conflict have expanded, community life is facing a crisis, and the young generation is at the center of this. As a result of taking interest in these social issues and examining the youth culture and arts support ordinances that are being actively enacted or revised recently, focusing on major local governments, we discovered that the following policy changes are necessary. First, support for youth culture and arts should focus on improving the problems of the young generation rather than focusing on community development. Second, the ordinance supporting youth culture and arts must be supplemented with provisions for improving the quality of life of young people and promoting creative activities. Third, the type of youth culture and arts activities must be changed to focus on policy participation. Therefore, this study basically emphasized that youth policy requires a change in thinking to a policy in which youth become the ‘subject’.

Risks and challenges of living in Institutions: Voices from young people with care experience in China

Amid global shifts towards family-based alternatives, China persists with prevalent institutional care, drawing attention to concerns surrounding caregiving practices. Official data indicates a substantial population, approximately 27.36% of all childcare recipients, living in state-funded care institutions, prompting an exploration of the risks factors faced by these young individuals. This study focuses on exploring risk factors of living in institutions, providing a unique perspective often absent in existing literature—the voices of the care-experienced youth themselves. It included 34 young people who had lived experiences in institutional care. Participants were interviewed to gather their experiences of living in care. Thematic analysis reveals that the overriding risk factors during young people’s living in care range from care identity and parental absence to substandard living conditions, unqualified caregiving, excessive domestic responsibilities, institutional neglect of education, environmental instability, and physical impairments. These challenges contribute to unfavourable outcomes during the transition to adulthood. Therefore, this study concludes that institutional care is suboptimal for children and young individuals in need of genuine care. Based on the findings, practical implications are provided for policymakers and practitioners to make improvements. Nonetheless, ongoing research is essential to contextualise care experiences within current policies, ensuring lessons from historical accounts guide future efforts to enhance the lives of young people in care.

Healthism, rural individualism and self-help: youth mental health in Northwest Tasmania

ABSTRACT Rural Australian youth exhibit high rates of mental ill-health, exacerbated by reduced access to mental health services. While the need for innovative solutions is well-established rural youth themselves are frequently excluded from the dialogue, creating a significant gap in evidence and the development of relevant service provision that reflects young people’s lived experiences. Drawing on the concepts of individualism and healthism and research highlighting the continuing importance of relationships and trust in the lives of young people in a digital society, we aim to better understand how rural youth understand mental health and navigate mental health services and information. Using a qualitative methodology, we held 2 small focus groups with a total of 8 young people in rural Tasmania to identify aspects of rural mental healthcare that require improvement and to contribute to developing new and innovative solutions. Findings indicate that rural Tasmanian youth face numerous structural, social, and cultural barriers to positive mental health. Rural self-reliance and generational differences in attitudes towards mental health can negatively affect youths’ help-seeking behaviours. Findings from this study suggest a need to combine technology-and community-based approaches creating a multi-generational approach to combat mental ill-health among rural youth.

Gender and schooling in Australia

This special issue presents a collection of recent papers drawing on qualitative research in and about schooling in Australia and the ways in which gender-related issues in the broadest sense continue to shape people’s educational experiences. These papers from the present are positioned in relation to the long histories of policy and research attention to gender equity in Australian education. We set the context for work in the present by scanning the past, noting the ambitions, the gaps and the failures of earlier policies, and drawing attention to the quality and volume of research that has previously been undertaken in this area. We explore the current policy vacuum regarding gender to consider some of the pressures and complexities that have led to the erasure or avoidance of gender-related issues. Each of the papers that form this special issue demonstrate—despite different methods, theoretical frameworks, settings and participant cohorts—how stereotypes and limitations circulate in everyday life in schools and beyond them, and how these impact on people. They each explore from a different starting point how gender injustices are perpetuated and produced, in often subtle and nuanced ways that require concerted effort to unpack. They simultaneously offer insights into the critical and creative ways that young people and those around them are reconfiguring gender and seeking more hopeful and more equitable educational experiences and outcomes. Collectively, the papers that form this special issue advocate for policies and practices that embrace the complexities of young people's lives and are oriented towards inclusive and equitable educational environments.

Образование и новые реалии повседневности у горских народов Северного Кавказа во второй половине XIX века

The article examines the changes in the life of the mountain population of the North Caucasus that occurred after the end of hostilities in the region. The emphasis is on the field of education, which received special attention from the authorities. It was assumed that with the help of proper education it would be possible to form law-abiding subjects of the empire, whose example would have a beneficial effect on their relatives and fellow countrymen. The changes taking place were reflected in the everyday life of young people, in their clothing, food, and behavior patterns. For the conservative-minded part of the mountain community, such transformations looked “sinful” and were therefore condemned. Most often it was about people of the older generation who saw this as a threat to national identity. The most consistent critics of the new preferences were the inhabitants of the mountainous regions, who were less involved in economic and cultural ties with the Russian settlers. Those living on the plains of the society accepted innovations more easily and tried to introduce what they considered convenient or emphasizing the high status of a person. Often, hostility to the changes was explained by religious beliefs. There were fears that, under the influence of Russian culture, young people would abandon Islam and begin to profess Christianity.

LEARNING GERMAN BASED ON TEXTS

The focus of the paper is text analysis at this point in text linguistics’ evolution. It clarifies the views of both foreign and domestic linguists on how to define the term “text” and examines the research methods used in this area of study. Modern linguistics needs new principles and methods of text formation that are based on corpus linguistics. The study of language and speech is also impossible without the anthropocentric and speech principle, which is formed in perspective: man and language. In this regard, his role in the text is of great importance. In the paper, special emphasis is placed on teaching German as a “foreign” language using the text as a higher-level communicative unit, an informative code that is addressed from the subject to the object. The text should contain cognitive material, have educational opportunities, be comprehensible, arouse interest and have feedback from the learners. Of course, the perception of the text depends on many aspects: the lexical and grammatical base of the students, their general knowledge, experience, etc. While working with the text, you should not only pay attention to phonetics, grammar, vocabulary, etc., but also to the subject matter of the texts, which should be interesting to students. We believe that it is very effective to use newspaper texts related to education, life of young people in Ukraine and abroad, hobbies, sports, medicine, political and economic issues, etc. Approaching the study and description of the language in action is essential for interacting with the text (be it artistic, journalistic, scientific, etc.). This is an excellent chance for students to discover and apply the knowledge they have learned.

Uloga Facebooka u promjenama obrazaca interpersonalne komunikacije i poimanju romantičnih odnosa

Digital technology in mass media provides a new way of transmitting information, but often does not deliver the veracity and emotional depth of information as direct human interaction does. Apart from the convergence offered by the media, information discernment through one of the digital or mass communication channels remains inferior to direct human communication. The question arises as to how social internet platforms affect relationships between women and men and the value and emotional structure of these relationships. Despite numerous studies that have dealt with the influence of social networks on the quality of communication and life of children and young people, it is evident that the question of the influence of social networks on gender relations is often neglected or considered less important. The purpose of this research was to examine the public’s perception of the alienating effects of Facebook in the area of primordial and primary social interaction between women and men as a previous communication to all other forms and types of communication. The results showed that the majority of respondents do not support the use of social networks for sexual acquaintances or emotional relationships, considering virtual communication as an insufficient substitute for real emotional contacts, which include non-verbal signs of attraction, and do not perceive them as a suitable means for engaging in emotional or erotic experiences. Although most do not consider them a threat to stable emotional relationships, they are a threat to the spiritual component and dignity of the partner and are perceived as an foundation for sexual adventures, trips and fraud.

Deaf adolescents' quality of life: a questionnaire in Italian Sign Language.

For some deaf people, sign language is the preferred language, the one in which they feel most comfortable. However, there are very few assessment tools developed or adapted for sign languages. The aim of this study was to translate and adapt in Italian Sign Language (LIS) the Italian version of the Youth Quality of Life Instrument-Deaf and Hard of Hearing Module (YQOL-DHH). The YQOL-DHH is a questionnaire assessing health-related quality of life in young deaf people. The guidelines provided by the authors of the original version were followed. Further controls and changes were made to take into account variability in signers' linguistic skills. This work and availability of the YQOL-DHH questionnaire in LIS, in addition to the Italian version, will ensure accessibility for Italian deaf adolescents.

Sports Commitment, Training Motivation, and Athletic Performance among Selected NCAA South Players

Participating in sports is essential for young people's life skills development. Adults are engaged in sports in the same ways that young people are—to maintain good health, enhance their interactions with others, and enhance their abilities (Cihan and Ilgar, 2019). Sports help young people develop their physical talents, and everyone who frequently participates in a sport appreciates the value of fitness and training in terms of how well they perform. This study's objective was to look into the level of sports commitment, training motivation, and athletic performance, probe the relationship between the athletes' level of sports commitment, training motivation, sports commitment, and athletic performance, and level of training motivation and athletic performance, and examine the predictive ability of the level of sports commitment, and training motivation, taken singly or in combination, of the level of athletic performance of NCAA players in the University of Perpetual Help System, Laguna. The findings revealed that the Athletes’ level of sports commitment along with personal goals, coach impact, and time and effort was “very high”, while the respondents’ level of sports commitment along with intrinsic and extrinsic was “very high”. On the other hand, the respondents’ level of athletic performance along with self-confidence, athletic ability, and, emotional ability was “very high”. In addition, the athlete’s level of sports commitment in terms of time and effort, was significant to the level of training motivation in terms of intrinsic, respectively. In terms of respondents’ level of sports commitment in terms of coach impact was correlated to their level of athletic performance in terms of self-confidence, athletic ability, and emotional ability. It implied that these indicators had a substantial impact on athletes' performance. It is expected that this study could help establish and maintain a commitment to sports and motivation to achieve a high level of athletic performance.