文化背景与社会行为和适应:城市、农村和流动三类儿童的比较研究

本研究探讨城市、农村和流动三类儿童在共同相处的社会环境下的社会行为和适应。结果显示:(1)女孩在同伴接纳、领导地位、社交性-合作、害羞敏感、教师评定能力和学习成绩方面的得分显著高于男孩,而男孩的受欺负得分显著高于女孩。(2)流动儿童的同伴拒绝显著高于城市儿童和农村儿童;而城市儿童的社交合作显著高于农村儿童和流动儿童。(3)农村儿童的害羞敏感能够预测同伴接纳;城市和农村儿童的害羞-敏感均能够预测社交性-合作和同伴拒绝;三类儿童的害羞-敏感均能预测受欺负行为。此外,流动儿童的性别与害羞-敏感交互作用能预测消极提名。     

我国城市老年群体基本医疗费用支付能力考察与研究

老年群体基本医疗费用支付能力的高低是决定其能否实现“老有所医”的关键性因素。通过对北京市、重庆市和河南省三个地区的城市老年群体的实证研究,分析老年群体基本医疗费用支付能力差异,并从社会保障制度方面分析其成因,提出了完善医疗保障制度,提高城市老年群体基本医疗费用支付能力的若干建议。     

Developmental Timing of Onsets of Disruptive Behaviors and Later Delinquency of Inner-City Youth

A longitudinal sample of 306 males were followed with annual interviews over 4 years to evaluate the role of the timing of onset of different types of disruptive behaviors in predicting later arrest rates. In particular, we applied the Developmental Pathways model to explain progressions from less serious to more serious behaviors and progression along three types of disruptive pathways defined as Overt, Covert, and Authority Conflict behaviors. Results indicated that the sequences and the prognostic properties hypothesized for the model were supported. Most youth showed a progression from behaviors expected to occur earlier to those expected to come later according to the model. In addition, these results showed that onset timing of most types of behavior as well as rapidity of reaching more serious behavior related to arrest rate. This cross-validation extends the model to a high risk inner-city population and to Latino youth. One notable exception to the general trend found was that violence did not always follow earlier involvement in less serious offenses and did not seem to show the same onset timing relation to risk for arrests. Social-ecological differences in the precipitants of violence in the inner-city compared to other developmental settings, as well as the possibility that multiple forms of violence have differing underlying causes, may explain this exception. The model's generality suggests it has utility for guiding and discriminating risk better than simply noting the frequency, seriousness, or onset timing of delinquency.     

城市贫困中学生自豪感、外显自尊与抑郁状态的关系

采用情境式自豪感问卷、青少年外显自尊和流调中心用抑郁量表,以城市非贫困生为对照,对400名城市贫困生的自豪感、外显自尊与抑郁状态进行考察。结果发现:(1)城市贫困生随年龄的增长,自豪感和外显自尊呈下降趋势,抑郁状态受年龄的影响不显著。女生自豪感程度显著高于男生,外显自尊和抑郁状态的性别差异不显著;(2)城市贫困生自豪感、外显自尊水平显著低于非贫困生。贫困生自豪感与外显自尊呈显著正相关,与抑郁状态呈显著负相关。整体自尊、学业自尊与人际自尊对自豪感的预测作用显著;(3)人口社会学变量中父母亲工作、文化水平、身体状况以及家庭经济收入对自豪感、外显自尊、抑郁状态有不同程度的影响。     

社会支持网络对城市贫困人口身心状况的影响

摘 要 通过对天津贫困人口的随机样本的分析,探讨了社会支持的数量、质量和社会支持网的网络结构对贫困人口的身心状况的影响。研究发现,社会支持的数量对城市贫困人口的身心状况没有影响。社会支持的质量则对贫困人口的身心状况有正向的影响。社会支持网的异质性越高,趋同性越低,生活满意度越高。这些指标对身体健康则没有影响。但网络中高于中心成员收入水平的越多,身心状况越差。     

‘NEET’ believers? An analysis of ‘belief’ on an urban housing estate

This article explores the impact that the experience of deep-seated social exclusion amongst unemployed white young men on a large urban housing estate in Birmingham, UK has on the ways in which they talk about identity, meaning and ‘belief’. Arising from detailed ethnographic fieldwork, the article forwards an analysis of current debates about youth social exclusion and the deployment of the acronym ‘NEET’ with reference to these young men and others like them across the UK. Drawing upon conversations between the author and young men during fieldwork, the article seeks to bridge the gap between social-science-based examinations of youth social exclusion and theological analyses of youth spiritualities to critically interrogate current debates about the nature of ‘belief’ and ‘belonging’. In particular, the article raises a key critical question: is the word ‘belief’ ‘fit for purpose’ when considering the experience of socially excluded young men on urban housing estates?     

Controlling the Means of Production: The Urban Poor in An Age of Globalisation

Although the social variables of modernity and dependency theory have given way to neo-liberalism and globalism, life strategies of the urban poor in Latin America have not necessarily changed. At the same time, current sociological research reflects methodological distance in relation to the urban poor as a subject. This article employs the methodological advantages of observation/participation to show that the strategies of the urban poor in one of Latin America's largest slums are coherent and integrated, and reveal an inner logic that not only allow them to survive the harsh realities of globalism, but enable them contribute to popular urban culture. Self-help housing, the informal economy, and grassroots participation in Pentecostal Religion are inextricably bound by providing marginalised people a degree of autonomy and control over the production of certain cultural forms and their meaning.     

Development and Implementation of a Sport Psychology Program in an Urban High School

SUMMARY

This article is based on a dissertation of the author that was centered on the process of developing a sport psychology program at the high school level. The program was developed to address academic, mental, social, and emotional needs of student-athletes and coaches. This sport psychology program, which was developed in the Linden Public School District, a large urban district in New Jersey, may be the first such program documented on a national level. In this dissertation, the author, who was a school psychologist in the district, utilized a particular program planning and evaluation framework, with attention to the first two phases-clarification and designto develop and implement a sport psychology program.     

Early Predictors of Urban Adolescents’ Community Violence Exposure

This study examined the extent to which individual, peer, and family factors predicted the onset of community violence exposure in middle and high school, as well as the indirect effects of early factors. We were particularly interested in the timing of exposure to community violence during adolescence, and thus conducted survival analyses on data from 632 urban youth, followed from first grade through high school. Early aggressive behavior and poor academic readiness were associated with an earlier onset of community violence exposure in adolescence. The effects of early aggression on community violence exposure and victimization were accounted for, in part, by peer rejection and deviant peer affiliation; there was no evidence of moderation by gender or parental monitoring. Findings highlight potential targets for preventive interventions with youth at risk of community violence exposure.     

陕西地区初中生心理健康素质特点调查

对陕西地区1299名城乡初中生进行分层整体取样调查,结果表明：（1）初中生心理健康素质在人际素质、动力系统、自我和归因风格方面城乡差异显著;（2）在适应、人际素质、动力系统、自我和归因风格方面初二得分高于初一和初三,年级差异显著;（3）在动力系统和归因风格方面女生得分显著高于男生,男生认知风格得分显著高于女生。