A Qualitative Study of Children's Perspectives on Their Peer Relationships in the Context of Living with a Craniofacial Anomaly

2016 ◽  
Vol 53 (5) ◽  
pp. 527-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice W. Pope ◽  
Tovah P. Klein ◽  
Andrea J. Bergman
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Peer Relationships ◽  
Children’S Perspectives ◽  
Craniofacial Anomaly

Stressors and Coping Methods of Turkish Adolescents With High and Low Risk of Depression: A Qualitative Study

2020 ◽  
pp. 107839031989508
Author(s):  
Burcu Özkul ◽  
Neslihan Partlak Günüşen
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Peer Relationships ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Relationship ◽  
Low Risk ◽  
Western Turkey ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
And Coping

BACKGROUND: Stress and coping skills are essential factors in the etiology of depression. Understanding the stressors and coping strategies of adolescents in Turkey may help determine the content of the country-specific depression prevention program. AIMS: The purpose of this study was to understand the stressors of adolescents with a high or low risk of depression and how they coped with these stressors. METHOD: This descriptive qualitative study was conducted in a high school in western Turkey. The data were collected via semistructured individual interviews. Eleven adolescents with high risk of depression and 10 adolescents with low risk of depression were included in the study. Content analysis technique was used to analyze the data. RESULTS: The stressors of adolescents and their coping were grouped into three themes: stressors, factors affecting coping strategies of adolescents, and coping. Stressors theme consists of three subthemes: family relationship, peer relationship, and telephone/internet usage. The factors affecting coping strategies of adolescents theme consists of four subthemes: cognitive distortions, self-perception, family relationships, and peer relationships. The coping theme consists of two subthemes: engagement coping and disengagement coping. CONCLUSIONS: It was determined that adolescents with a high risk of depression had more stressors and used more disengagement-coping techniques. It is recommended that to prevent depression among adolescents, school nurses should take initiatives to strengthen the coping strategies of adolescents with high risk of depression.

scholarly journals What Contributes to the Development and Maintenance of School Refusal in Chinese Adolescents: A Qualitative Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liang Liu ◽  
Hong Gu ◽  
Xudong Zhao ◽  
Yanbo Wang
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Peer Relationships ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
School Refusal ◽  
Chinese Adolescents ◽  
School Life ◽  
Living Space

Objective: Although, there has been a growing number of studies on school refusal in Western cultures, the underlying factors that contribute to school refusal in Chinese adolescents remain unclear. This study aimed to better understand why Chinese adolescents refuse to go to school and to further interpret what they want to express through their school refusal behaviors.Methods: We performed a qualitative study using an interpretative phenomenological analysis. Twenty adolescents with school refusal experiences were recruited from the clinical psychology department of two mental health hospitals in Shanghai, China. They participated in semistructured, face-to-face in-depth interviews. The interviews were transcribed verbatim and analyzed according to the guidelines of interpretative phenomenological analysis.Findings: Five main superordinate themes emerged from data analysis: (a) competition-oriented social environment; (b) family living space dominated by conflicts; (c) personal living space lacking meaningful support; (d) conflict between the pros and cons of being labeled with a psychiatric diagnosis; and (e) reintegration in school life.Conclusions: Our analysis emphasized the complex interacting effects of the social environment, family interpersonal conflicts, personal psychological factors and mental health complaints on the development and maintenance of Chinese adolescents' school refusal. These factors contributed to school refusal at each level and influenced each other's effects on school refusal behaviors. Therefore, interventions for Chinese teenagers with school refusal may need to integrate strategies that inspire reorganization and changes in different ecosystems, such as strategies related to government policy, peer relationships, family systems and individual inner dynamics.

Consumers at play: negotiations of identity in a Japanese preschool

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-106
Author(s):  
Mayumi Takahashi
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Peer Relationships ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Pretend Play ◽  
Childhood Studies ◽  
Children’S Perspectives ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Preschool Experience ◽  
Collective Construction ◽  
Insight Into

Purpose The aim of this article is to explore how young children (five year olds) collectively construct pretend identities with peers in play while using and negotiating consumer knowledge and experiences. Particular attention is given to children’s collaborative transformation of objects, ideas, places and persons, as they occur in the context of pretend play. Design/methodology/approach Data were gathered from ethnographic fieldwork in a local preschool in Japan. Two classes of five-year-old children (both boys and girls) were observed over four months. The theoretical framework highlights the dynamic and fluid interactional sphere and conversational exchanges through which pretend identities are created, negotiated and expanded. Findings In the findings, children’s construction of pretend identities is identified in terms of three characteristic forms of interaction in play: children’s reciprocal immediacy; maintaining and challenging participation; and willingness and collaboration to expand a play theme. Children’s collective construction of pretend identities indicates that playing roles means playing rules. Originality/value Through participant observation focusing of children’s perspectives and practices, this study contributes both to childhood studies and consumption studies. It also contributes to insight into how young children in the Japanese preschool experience consumer culture in a specific socio-cultural environment and how they construct peer relationships.

scholarly journals How Do the Children Play? The Influence of Playground Type on Children’s Play Styles

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tina L. Stanton-Chapman ◽  
Eric L. Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Peer Relationships ◽  
Social Play ◽  
Children’S Perspectives ◽  
Children's Play ◽  
School And Community ◽  
Children’S Play ◽  
Play Behaviors ◽  
Parallel Play ◽  
Play Styles ◽  
Observation Results

Using a mixed-method design, the aims of the current study were to develop an in-depth understanding of (1) children’s social play behaviors on school and community playgrounds, (2) the duration with which children play within varying social play categories, and (3) assessing children’s perspectives of playground activities, their peer relationships, and recommendations for new playgrounds. Six participants were observed for five 30-min observations on a school playground and for five 30-min observations on a community playground. Participants were also interviewed about their experiences and preferences on school and community playgrounds. The direct observation results support and extend previous work, indicating that children’s play skill competence varies by setting. Children demonstrated higher levels of associative and cooperative play on the school playground, but higher levels of solitary and parallel play on the community playground. This difference in play styles by playground appears to be a function of available play partners and is explained by the interview data, which found that children are not comfortable playing with children they do not know.

Children’s and parents’ views on hospital contact isolation: A qualitative study to highlight children’s perspectives

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 401-418
Author(s):  
Evelyn N Alvarez ◽  
Megan C Pike ◽  
Hilary Godwin
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Hospitalized Children ◽  
Children’S Perspectives ◽  
Contact Isolation ◽  
Difficult Time ◽  
Parental Perspectives ◽  
Child Perceptions ◽  
Child Friendly ◽  
Hospital Contact ◽  
Parent Child

Background: To date, there has been a paucity of studies conducted on the experiences of children under hospital contact isolation precautions. Furthermore, the studies that have examined children’s experiences at the hospital typically reflect the perspectives of their parents, and few have directly involved interviews with children themselves, and even fewer with children in isolation. Methods: To address this gap, we conducted semi-structured, open-ended interviews with hospitalized children to assess their experiences of being placed in isolation. Where possible, the children’s parents also completed written surveys to assess parental perspectives on their child’s experiences. Results: Two important findings of the study were the children’s resilience during a difficult time and children’s varying awareness of the pathophysiology of infections as it relates to isolation precautions. Examination of the parent–child dyads elucidated some discordance between parents’ and children’s perspectives on how children experienced their isolation, on what the children’s preferred activities were while in isolation, and how much children understood about the reasons they were in isolation. Conclusion: This study supports earlier studies that suggest that the benefits of isolation procedures may be outweighed by how negatively isolation is experienced by patients, particularly when the patients are children. It also highlights the need for child-friendly isolation signs. Because parental and child perceptions differed in cases where data from both were available, this study suggests larger studies on children’s perspectives and/or on parent–child dyads are needed.

Hidden Success: Learning From the Counternarratives of High School Graduates Impacted by Student Homelessness

2019 ◽  
pp. 004208591987792 ◽  
Author(s):  
Earl J. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High School ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Peer Relationships ◽  
High School Graduates ◽  
The United States ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
The Past ◽  
Caring Teachers ◽  
Significant Barrier

The number of youth experiencing homelessness in the United States has nearly doubled over the past decade from 688,000 in 2006 to over 1.3 million as of 2017. While graduating high school is a significant barrier for many students experiencing homelessness, many youth are able to successfully graduate despite their unstable living conditions. This qualitative study used the antideficit achievement framework to analyze the counternarratives of eight youth who successfully graduated high school while experiencing homelessness. Findings showed that strong peer relationships, the support from caring teachers, and attending church served as impactful influences that helped youth experiencing homelessness graduate high school.

Difficult but Close Relationships: Children’s Perspectives on Relationships With Their Mothers in the Context of Domestic Violence

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (9) ◽  
pp. 1023-1038 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Lapierre ◽  
Isabelle Côté ◽  
Amélie Lambert ◽  
David Buetti ◽  
Chantal Lavergne ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Close Relationships ◽  
Children’S Perspectives ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Mother Child Relationships ◽  
Research Findings

This article reports findings from a participative and qualitative study conducted with children who had experienced domestic violence, focusing on their perspectives on their relationships with their mothers. Three focus groups and 46 individual interviews were conducted with children to gather their experiences. The research findings demonstrate that women’s and children’s victimizations are inextricably linked, and that domestic violence affects mother–child relationships. They also show that, despite the challenges and difficulties, children generally consider their mothers as very significant individuals in their lives, and have close relationships with them. The findings also reveal a dynamic of mutual protectiveness.

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