Studies On Childrens Well Being In China

Author : Lijun Chen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429627734
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Child and Youth Well-being in China written by Lijun Chen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true measure of any society is how it treats its children, who are in turn that society’s future. Making use of data from the longitudinal Chinese Family Panel Studies survey, the authors of this timely study provide a multi-faceted description and analysis of China’s younger generations. They assess the economic, physical, and social-emotional well-being as well as the cognitive performance and educational attainment of China's children and youth. They pay special attention to the significance of family and community contexts, including the impact of parental absence on millions of left-behind children. Throughout the volume, the authors delineate various forms of disparities, especially the structural inequalities maintained by the Chinese Party-state and the vulnerabilities of children and youth in fragile families and communities. They also analyze the social attitudes and values of Chinese youth. Having grown up in a period of sustained prosperity and greater individual choice, the younger Chinese cohorts are more independent in spirit, more open-minded socially, and significantly less deferential to authority than older cohorts. There is growing recognition in China of the importance of investing in children’s future and of helping the less advantaged. Substantial improvements in child and youth well-being have been achieved in a time of growing economic prosperity. Strong political commitment is needed to sustain existing efforts and to overcome the many obstacles that remain. This book will be of considerable interest to researchers of Chinese society and development.

Author : Lijun Chen
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9789813275195
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies on Children's Well-Being in China written by Lijun Chen and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-04-12 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite many studies on the situation of children in China, there is a dearth of a proper and complete study of the conditions in which these children live. This book, based on national household survey data, offers a comprehensive analysis of the conditions. This book covers all major aspects of child development, including physical health, mental and psychological well-being, and their cognitive and educational development. It focuses on examining the developmental disparities between children of rural and urban regions and those with different living arrangements, for instance, left-behind children and migrant children. It reveals variations in the ecological contexts of these children i.e., different conditions of their families and communities that may have contributed to the children's developmental trajectories.

Author : Stan Kutcher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107053900
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book School Mental Health written by Stan Kutcher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides vivid examples of school mental health innovations from 18 countries, addressing mental health promotion, prevention and interventions. These initiatives and innovations enable readers from different regions and disciplines to apply strategies to help students achieve and maintain mental health, enhance their learning outcomes and access services, worldwide.

Author : Mengtong Chen
Publisher : Open Dissertation Press
ISBN 13 : 9781361040508
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book PARENTING PRAC & CHILDRENS WEL written by Mengtong Chen and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Parenting Practice and Children's Well-being in Rural China" by Mengtong, Chen, 陈孟彤, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Parental absence is generally linked to poorer child well-being. In China, over 61 million rural children are left behind with other caregivers when one or both parents have to migrate to urban areas to work. A meta-analysis of 106 empirical studies reveals that left-behind children in rural China are generally more disadvantaged compared with non-left-behind children, in regard to psychological adjustment, behavioral health, school-related outcomes, child safety, and other protective outcomes. However, children's exposure to victimization, as a particular child well-being outcome, has not been fully investigated. Further, the parenting practices of caregivers and the influence on children when one or both parents are absent in family lives are unclear. This research was designed to examine the rates of child victimization and poly-victimization among rural children in China in the preceding year, and investigate the association between the caregiver's parenting practice and the child's well-being. In this cross-sectional study, a questionnaire survey was successfully conducted among 793 rural children aged from 10 to 16 in the Sichuan Province of China. The Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire (JVQ) was used as the measure for child victimization. The results demonstrate a high prevalence of victimization exposure among rural children, and a trend was observed in which children's victimization experiences increased as the degree of parental absence increased (from the presence of two biological parents, to parental migration and parental separation and divorce). Through logistic regression analyses, this study also found that certain demographic characteristics (being a boy and at a younger age) were associated with child victimization. Child victimization experiences increase the likelihood of depression among rural children. The results showed that grandparents were significantly involved in raising left-behind children and other rural children and they played a protective role in children's growth. Caregivers' parenting practices had a significant effect on rural children's well-being. A close child-caregiver relationship and positive parenting/involvement were associated with greater resilience in children and decreased child depression. Negative discipline and deficient monitoring from caregivers were risk factors associated with a range of violence against children. This study is among the first to examine a full range of child victimization experiences in rural China, and focuses on the left-behind children phenomenon in particular. The findings enriched our theoretical understanding of the social capital within families as they illustrated that a caregiver's positive parenting practices and close child-caregiver relationship can compensate for the absence of parents to some extent. This study highlights the need for child protection in rural China, and family and parenting support for the caregivers of rural children should be emphasized in policy and services. Subjects: Parenting - China Children of working parents - China Rural children - China

Author : Richard M. Lerner
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1135681899
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Concepts and Theories of Human Development written by Richard M. Lerner and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic in the field, this third edition will continue to be the book of choice for advanced undergraduate and graduate-level courses in theories of human development in departments of psychology and human development. This volume has been substantially revised with an eye toward supporting applied developmental science and the developmental systems perspectives. Since the publication of the second edition, developmental systems theories have taken center stage in contemporary developmental science and have provided compelling alternatives to reductionist theoretical accounts having either a nature or nurture emphasis. As a consequence, a developmental systems orientation frames the presentation in this edition. This new edition has been expanded substantially in comparison to the second edition. Special features include: * A separate chapter focuses on the historical roots of concepts and theories of human development, on philosophical models of development, and on developmental contextualism. * Two new chapters surrounding the discussion of developmental contextualism--one on developmental systems theories wherein several exemplars of such models are discussed and a corresponding chapter wherein key instances of such theories--life span, life course, bioecological, and action theoretical ones--are presented. * A new chapter on cognition and development is included, contrasting systems' approaches to cognitive development with neo-nativist perspectives. * A more differentiated treatment of nature-oriented theories of development is provided. There are separate chapters on behavior genetics, the controversy surrounding the study of the heritability of intelligence, work on the instinctual theory of Konrad Lorenz, and a new chapter on sociobiology. * A new chapter concentrates on applied developmental science.

Author : Xiuping Wang
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811989591
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Study on Child Development in Contemporary China written by Xiuping Wang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-23 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is devoted to the description and analysis of child population, rights to survival and development, culture and policies that Chinese government made in contemporary China. The book pursues three major objectives: firstly, to objectively describe child development in contemporary China ; secondly, to analyze characteristics of child development in contemporary China; and thirdly, to review all types of policies Chinese government has made on children survival, protection and development, which played important roles on promoting child development.

Author : Daniel T.L. Shek
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9789811011979
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Adolescents in Hong Kong written by Daniel T.L. Shek and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book documents the findings of a 3-year longitudinal study on the quality of family life, personal well-being and risk behavior in Chinese adolescents in Hong Kong. It presents the profiles of quality of family life (family functioning, parental behavioral control, parental psychological control and parent-child relational qualities); personal well-being (positive youth development and life satisfaction measures) and adolescent risk behavior (substance abuse, delinquency, self-harm and suicidal behavior and behavioral intentions to engage in risk behavior) in different adolescent populations across time. It also examines theoretical issues concerning the interrelationships between family quality of life, psychological well-being and risk behavior in adolescents. Practically speaking, the findings can help youth workers appreciate the importance of family quality of life and positive youth development in shaping the personal well-being and risk behavior in Chinese adolescents in Hong Kong.

Author : Xiaoyi Wang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parental Migration and Children's Emotional Well-being: a Study of Migrant Children in China's Urban Areas written by Xiaoyi Wang and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the irreversible trend of rural-to-urban migration in China starting from early 1980s, nearly 20 million children have migrated with their parents. Previous studies have mainly focused on the effect of migration on left-behind children’s emotional health, but few have addressed this issue on migrant children in urban areas. This paper studies the effect of migration on migrant children’s emotional well-being in the urban areas in China by comparing four different family types. Additionally, the paper studies whether migration or the presence of parents plays a more important role in shaping migrant children’s emotional well-being. This research uses a national survey data collected in 2012 in 26 provinces for children age 10 to 15 years. Overall, the findings show that migrant children are worse off compared to their native urban peers while the presence of parents has a positive impact on children’s emotional health. But this analysis is unable to determine whether migration or parent’s presence is more important in determining migrant children’s emotional well-being.

Author : Rachel Murphy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110883485X
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Children of China's Great Migration written by Rachel Murphy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rachel Murphy explores Chinese children's experience of having migrant parents and the impact this has on family relationships in China.

Author : Shimi Kang
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101632348
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dolphin Way written by Shimi Kang and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this inspiring book, Harvard-trained child and adult psychiatrist and expert in human motivation Dr. Shimi Kang provides a guide to the art and science of inspiring children to develop their own internal drive and a lifelong love of learning. Drawing on the latest neuroscience and behavioral research, Dr. Kang shows why pushy “tiger parents” and permissive “jellyfish parents” actually hinder self-motivation. She proposes a powerful new parenting model: the intelligent, joyful, playful, highly social dolphin. Dolphin parents focus on maintaining balance in their children’s lives to gently yet authoritatively guide them toward lasting health, happiness, and success. As the medical director for Child and Youth Mental Health community programs in Vancouver, British Columbia, Dr. Kang has witnessed firsthand the consequences of parental pressure: anxiety disorders, high stress levels, suicides, and addictions. As the mother of three children and as the daughter of immigrant parents who struggled to give their children the “best” in life—Dr. Kang’s mother could not read and her father taught her math while they drove around in his taxicab—Dr. Kang argues that often the simplest “benefits” we give our children are the most valuable. By trusting our deepest intuitions about what is best for our kids, we will in turn allow them to develop key dolphin traits to enable them to thrive in an increasingly complex world: adaptability, community-mindedness, creativity, and critical thinking. Life is a journey through ever-changing waters, and dolphin parents know that the most valuable help we can give our children is to assist them in developing their own inner compass. Combining irrefutable science with unforgettable real-life stories, The Dolphin Way walks readers through Dr. Kang’s four-part method for cultivating self-motivation. The book makes a powerful case that we are not forced to choose between being permissive or controlling. The third option—the option that will prepare our kids for success in a future that will require adaptability—is the dolphin way.