scholarly journals Inclusion of young people in the work: mental barriers and ways to overcome them

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ksenia A. Ustinova ◽  
Andrey V. Popov
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Young People ◽  
Career Advancement ◽  
Focus Group Discussions ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Young Professionals ◽  
Career Growth ◽  
Regional Community ◽  
Scientific Project ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The study is devoted to identifying barriers to the inclusion of young professionals in the work. The work is based on the data of focus group discussions with young professionals held by the staff of the Russian Academy of Sciences In September-October 2017.the features of young professionals that make it difficult to find employment and work, the channels used to find work from the standpoint of the trust of the population and their effectiveness. It is shown that the barriers to the inclusion of young people in the labor activity may be associated with a stereotypical view of young professionals, which affects not only the attitude to this group of the population as a whole, but also the perception of opportunities for their employment, career growth and career advancement. It is emphasized that one of the important problems that prevent the inclusion of young people in the labor market is the mismatch between the educational system and the labor market. Acknowledgements. The Publication was prepared within the framework of the RPF-supported scientific project № 16-18-00078 «Mechanisms of overcoming the mental obstacles to inclusion of socially vulnerable categories of population for activation of modernization processes in regional community».

Researching young people’s perceptions and experiences of place

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madeleine Leonard
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Focus Group Discussions ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday World ◽  
People’S Perceptions

This chapter presents an overview and reflection of the range of methods involved in researching teenagers’ spatial practices in a divided city. The research draws on the ‘new sociology of childhood’ as its theoretical framework. This involves seeing young people as competent social actors in their own right. It involves recognising that young people do not simply reflect adult assumptions about the everyday world but develop their own ways of seeing and knowing. It prioritises young people’s points of views and uses methodologies which encourage young people’s voices to be heard. The study utilised a range of methods including questionnaires, focus group discussions, essays and photo prompts and the chapter outlines how each method contributed to the aims and objectives of the research.

scholarly journals Dating and Sex Among Emerging Adults in Nepal

2010 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 675-700 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pramod R. Regmi ◽  
Edwin R. van Teijlingen ◽  
Padam Simkhada ◽  
Dev R. Acharya
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
Young People ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Informal Education ◽  
Safer Sex ◽  
Focus Group Discussions ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Individual Interviews

Social and cultural changes in Nepal, including better communication facilities and transport, more urbanization and a rising age at which people marry, have created more opportunities for young people for “dating.” Our qualitative study explores whether the existence of dating cultures influences young people’s sexual behavior in Nepal. Focus group discussions with a total of 75 participants and 31 in-depth individual interviews were conducted among young people in Nepal. Most urban and rural young people liked the dating culture. Although it is a new kind of culture in Nepalese society, it is gaining popularity. The mass media were regarded as encouraging and creating an environment for dating. Most participants believed that dating culture encourages premarital and extramarital sexual behavior. The authors underpin their findings by linking it to the “emerging adulthood” framework. In terms of public health, they recommend that dating practice should be discussed in formal and informal education to promote safer sex.

Young Women's and Men's Different Worlds of Alcohol, Fear, and Violence in Focus Group Discussions with 18-Year-Olds in Stockholm

2006 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Abrahamson
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Focus Group Discussions ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Street Violence

The purpose of the paper is to investigate how young women and men in focus group discussions reason about alcohol, street violence, fear of assault by a stranger, and to compare the different kinds of threats that young women and men present of what might happen when they are out at night and on their way home. The interviews are analysed from the point of view of the accounts the young people give for their feelings and behaviors. The young women's accounts are dominated by their answers to an implicit question of blame for how they ensure their security and which measures they have taken. What the young women are afraid of is rarely formulated explicitly. It is implicit and goes without much saying. On the other hand the accounts the young men are giving for their actions consist of answers to the implicit question of blame for violence they have been involved in and also of blame for fear of violence. The young men's picture of threat is concrete and consists of other young men of the same age. By their accounts they show that fear of violence is something that has to be given an explanation. The young men use intoxication both as an excuse for the violence they are using and as an explanation to why violence occurs.

Employment preferences of employers and competence requirements for young professionals

10.12737/4874 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 30-34
Author(s):  
Матюшко ◽  
A. Matyushko
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Young People ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Youth Policy ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Young Professionals ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Level Of Training ◽  
The University

Labor market almost daily updated with young professionals — university graduates, who get up to the first stage of his career. Young professionals or the university graduates make up a large part of the working population of Russia and occupy an important place in the reproduction and development of human resources and are major innovative potential. Transition to innovative development of Russia’s economy implies new requirements for the development of young people, and for the youth policy objectives. The main goal of the medium-and long-term national youth policy is to increase the human capital of young people and increase their competitiveness.The idea of the perfect young professional today is variously as employers and graduates.This article presents the results of Orenburg region employers research. Main research areas: staffing needs of employers and ways of addressing them, the general and specific requirements of employers to young professionals, evaluation of the young specialists level of training. Practical recommendations to improve the competitiveness of young professionals on the labor market and the development of partnerships with higher education institutions and employers in the region.

Increasing the Adaptive Capacity of Young People in the Labour Market: The Experience of the Ural Federal University (Ekaterinburg)

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 61-66
Author(s):  
Ю. Казакова ◽  
Yu. Kazakova ◽  
О. Охотников ◽  
O. Ohotnikov
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Young People ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Adaptive Capacity ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Young Professionals ◽  
Training Courses ◽  
Questionnaire Method ◽  
The University

The current situation in the youth segment of the labour market is characterized by high unemployment and instability. The mechanisms regulating relations between the labour market and the educational services market do not ensure that the educational process of young people meets the needs and requirements of employers. In this regard, a necessary condition today is to improve the mechanisms with greater adaptive capacity, which would effectively solve the problem of youth employment. Thus, the purpose of this article is to study the practical mechanisms used in the UrFU to improve the adaptive capacity of young professionals and to assess the views of graduates on their application in the University. To this end, the empirical material obtained in the study of the opinion of students aged 20 to 21 years, on the basis of UrFU in Yekaterinburg, was analyzed using the questionnaire method. The relevance of the study is due to the existence of the problem of adaptation of young people in the labor market, which requires improvement, and is enhanced by the fact that it has a practical orientation. The materials of the work can be used in subsequent research of the youth segment of the labor market, as well as in the preparation of textbooks and reading training courses in universities on the basics of employment technologies and the effective behavior of young people in the labor market. The results of the study showed: 1. UrFU pays special attention to the promotion of employment and adaptation in the labor market of graduates, using mechanisms that have a more General (universal) character, but do not contain targeted (individual) assistance to graduates. 2. To solve the identified problems, the authors develop a special training course «technology of effective employment», aimed at improving the adaptive capacity of graduates of UrFU.

Us and them: Young people’s constructions of national identity in Cyprus

Childhood ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 467-480 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madeleine Leonard
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Young People ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Focus Group Discussions ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Divided Societies ◽  
Greek Cypriot ◽  
Turkish Cypriot

The purpose of this article is to explore young people’s constructions of national identity in Cyprus. The article is based on focus group discussions with 20 Greek-speaking and 20 Turkish-speaking young people between 13 and 15 years of age, drawn from two schools in the divided capital city of Nicosia. The article explores both the ways in which Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot young people understand their own identity and the degrees of their allegiance to an overarching identity as ‘Cypriot’, rather than Turkish/Greek Cypriot. The article reflects on the contradictions young people face in divided societies where there are competing discourses around national identity.

scholarly journals ‘I see it everywhere': young Australians unintended exposure to sexual content online

Sexual Health ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larissa Lewis ◽  
Julie Mooney Somers ◽  
Rebecca Guy ◽  
Lucy Watchirs-Smith ◽  
S. Rachel Skinner
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Young People ◽  
Sexual Content ◽  
Public Concern ◽  
Focus Group Discussions ◽  
School Students ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Advertising Content ◽  
Online Methods

Background There are wide variations in the reported prevalence of exposure to sexual content online, but the literature tends not to distinguish between intended and unintended exposure. Moreover, there is little research exploring the pathways through which exposure occurs or descriptions of such content. While there is much public concern regarding exposure to sexual content, Australian students receive little or no education on mitigating the effect of sexual content online. Methods: Eleven focus group discussions with high school students aged 14–18 years were conducted to discover young people’s experiences of exposure to sexual content in social media. In this paper, we describe these pathways to sexual content exposure, the nature of the sexual content young people are exposed to and their views about this exposure. Results: Focus groups showed that exposure to sexual content through social media occurred through networks of ‘friends’ or followers, and paid-for advertising. Content ranged from subtle messages or photos to explicit pornographic pictures/videos. Most of the exposure young people described was unintended. Conclusions: Exposure to sexual content, no matter the scope and intensity, was almost unavoidable among young people who use social media. Utilising this information to educate young people on mitigating the effect of sexual content, rather than trying to prevent young people from viewing it, could be a more effective approach.

scholarly journals The Dangers Associated with Female Adolescents Consuming Nyaope Drug in Butterworth, South Africa

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samkelo Bala ◽  
Simon M. Kang’ethe
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Young People ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Educational Interventions ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Female Adolescents ◽  
Focus Group Discussions ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
Potent Drug

AbstractNyaope is a potent drug that is currently challenging South Africa; its ramifications have destroyed the country’s youth. The study described in this paper sought to explore the dangers associated with the consumption of Nyaope in Butterworth, South Africa. This study adopted an explorative and descriptive qualitative approach that involved the facilitation of focus group discussions and one-on-one interviews with twenty-six participants. An analysis of the findings of the study revealed the health hazards associated with consuming Nyaope and the tendency of Nyaope consumption to induce hallucinations and delusions in young people. Moreover, the study showed that Nyaope stimulated mood swings among female adolescents, its consumption created a fertile ground for conflict, and the addiction to Nyaope led to the destruction of the future of female adolescents. The researchers recommend the application of multiple approaches to preventing the initiation of Nyaope consumption. These approaches include attempts to control the peddling of Nyaope in schools and communities as well as the introduction of pro-active educational interventions regarding the dangers of Nyaope on the part of relevant institutions and government.

scholarly journals EXCLUSIÓN E INSERCIÓN LABORAL DE LOS JÓVENES; UNA MIRADA DESDE LA PERSPECTIVA DE GÉNERO

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (22) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Antonio Oblitas Vedia ◽  
Noemí Plaza
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Interest ◽  
The Other ◽  
Market Behavior ◽  
Economic Dynamics ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Young Professionals ◽  
The City

El análisis de la dinámica de la inserción laboral de los jóvenes es un tema de creciente interés social y al ser los jóvenes un segmento significativamente amplio en la población de la ciudad de Sucre (cuya presencia contribuye a la dinámica económica), la presente investigación apunta a identificar los factores que condicionan y determinan la inserción laboral de los jóvenes (hombres y mujeres) en la ciudad. En el presente estudio, se investigan problemas del comportamiento del mercado laboral, desde la perspectiva de los jóvenes profesionales, se identifican variables, conceptos y exploran datos desde diferentes puntos y enfoques, todos relacionados a la inserción laboral de los jóvenes profesionales. Por otra, se establecen las causas, los efectos y en qué condiciones se manifiestan los diferentes fenómenos asociados a la inserción laboral en la ciudad de Sucre. Por tanto, se brinda información generada sobre los procesos de inserción laboral de los jóvenes profesionales en la ciudad de Sucre. Palabras Claves Jóvenes profesionales, mercado de trabajo, inserción laboral AbstractThe analysis of the dynamics of the labor insertion of young people is a topic of growing social interest and since young people are a significantly broad segment of the population of the city of Sucre (whose presence contributes to the economic dynamics), the present research points to identify the factors that condition and determine the employment of young people (men and women) in the city. In the present study, problems of labor market behavior are investigated from the perspective of young professionals, variables, concepts are identified and data explored from different points and approaches, all related to the labor insertion of young professionals. On the other, the causes, effects and under what conditions the different phenomena associated with labor insertion in the city of Sucre are manifested. Therefore, it provides information generated on the labor insertion processes of young professionals in the city of Sucre.KeywordsYoung professionals, labor market, labor insertion

“The Menthol One Is More Friendly”: Young Singaporeans’ Perspectives on Flavored Cigarettes

2021 ◽  
pp. 101053952110653
Author(s):  
Yvette van der Eijk ◽  
Lavinia Lin ◽  
Lydia Gan ◽  
Odelia Teo ◽  
Mythily Subramaniam ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Smoking Initiation ◽  
Young Age ◽  
Focus Group Discussions ◽  
Humid Climate ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Nicotine Content ◽  
Hot And Humid Climate

Over half of the cigarettes sold in Singapore contain added flavors such as menthol. We conducted nine focus group discussions (n = 46) with young (age 20-25) current smokers in Singapore to understand the role of flavors in smoking initiation. We found that flavors triggered the curiosity to experiment with tobacco and e-cigarette products and played an important role in the formation of early cigarette preferences. Menthol-flavored cigarettes were the most appealing to participants due to their smoothness and cooling sensation, described as pleasant against Singapore’s hot and humid climate. While some participants believed that flavored and nonflavored cigarettes were equally harmful, others believed that flavored variants had a lower nicotine content and were therefore less harmful, or that the added chemicals in flavored cigarettes could result in higher toxicant exposures. Thus, among young people in Singapore, flavors appear to play an important role in smoking initiation and there appear to be various misperceptions regarding their harmfulness.

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