Canadian Journal of Family and Youth (CJFY)
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Adolescent Stress: Causes, Consequences, and Communication as an Interventional Model
No full textAdolescents are encountering a greater quantity, variety, and intensity of stress than any previous generation. This study analyses data from my own experience, pop culture, and statistics, as well as videos produced by artists and professionals. The purpose was to identify the primary stressors impacting junior high school students’ emotional well-being, examine how these stressors are affecting them socially and academically, and explore what role having someone to talk to might have in helping to reduce their stress levels. The study found that parents, peers, academics, and physical and psychological concerns are the greatest sources of stress for this particular age group. Anxiety, depression, and withdrawal/disengagement are the most common emotional effects, and communicating feelings to a trusted adult can mitigate some of these difficulties. These findings suggest that helping students cope with personal stress requires that it become a priority, teachers be provided with adequate training, and time and space be made available for students to discuss their problems. As a result, an intervention model focusing on brief, solution-focused interactions is proposed
“It was a Meaningless Job”: Exploring Youth Post-Secondary Students’ Employment in the Fast Food Industry
No full textFast food work is often described as low-skilled, alienating, standardized, and highly routinized. The fast food industry employs a disproportionately large number of youth post-secondary students who work on a temporary basis and do so part-time or during school breaks to earn money toward educational and living expenses. To date, little is known about post-secondary student fast food workers’ perceptions of their employment. Data from interviews with 32 post-secondary student fast food workers were analyzed. The student workers viewed their jobs as unimportant and low-skilled; however, as students, they were not seeking work that provided opportunities for creativity and meaning, rather, they emphasized the temporary nature of their work and described the inherent stigma and lack of prestige associated with long-term employment in the fast food industry. The students were critical of longer-term workers and animosity between student and non-student workers was expressed. These findings suggest that identity management theories, such as Ashforth and Kreiner’s dirty work, may be better suited to understanding students’ participation in fast food work than traditional Marxist frameworks
Review of: Raeburn, P. (2014). Do Fathers Matter?: What Science Is Telling Us About the Parent We\u27ve Overlooked. New York: Scientific American.
No full textReview of: Raeburn, P. (2014). Do Fathers Matter?: What Science Is Telling Us About the Parent We\u27ve Overlooked. New York: Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
No full textA Child’s Family Relationship and Emotional Well-Being through Self-Regulated Learning in South Korea
No full textThis paper focuses on the relationship between a child’s family relationship, emotional well-being, and self-regulated learning in Korea. The sample of this study consisted of 527 elementary school students who were selected from three different schools in South Korea. The data were collected using the family relationship scale, the self-regulated learning scale, and the emotional well-being scale. The results showed that the structural equation modeling analysis was a good model fit to indices. Family relationship such as cohesion or conflict had a direct and indirect effect on a student’s emotional well-being. Also, family cohesion and family conflict indirectly influenced a child’s emotional well-being through self-regulated learning. It was also evident that there were significant grade differences in the students\u27 emotional well-being where 5th graders had higher positive emotions than 6th graders and 6th graders had higher family conflict than 5th graders. To sum up the findings, there was clear evidence that a positive family relationship predicted a student’s emotional well-being directly and anticipated a child’s emotional well-being indirectly through self-regulated learning
Review of: Raeburn, P. (2014). Do Fathers Matter?: What Science Is Telling Us About the Parent We\u27ve Overlooked. New York: Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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Method as Process, Process as Method
No full textA Publication from the Inaugural Institute for Child and Youth Studies Symposium -At the Intersections of Childhood 2017: Digital, Indigenous, and Youth Issues, April 2017
“I Never Read Anything Like That Before:” Mapping the Identities of Blackfoot Readers
No full textOur research emerges out of a concern that Indigenous readers, generally speaking, are not having opportunities to read and discuss culturally relevant fiction. Children’s literature and reader response scholarship does not fully engage with what Indigenous voices could bring to our understanding of young people\u27s responses to and engagement with fiction. We are currently conducting a community-based, participatory project with Blackfoot First Nations young adults who live on the Kainai Blood Reserve in southern Alberta. We are looking at the ways in which our participants perceive of and represent their social, cultural and place-based identities within and beyond the text. Our participants are reading and discussing several Indigenous texts, including a graphic novel set on their reserve. We are interested in the ways in which these readers reflect on their identities while discussing culturally relevant fiction, within reading discussion groups and the creation of journals (comprised of visual responses, such as maps, sketches, and photos). Within this article, we share how using culturally relevant and local, place-based fiction is spurring Blackfoot youth to have discussions about their identities within and beyond the text. We suggest that these methodological approaches are empowering the Blackfoot youth to develop their own self-representations by relating these stories to their own lives, including their memories of growing up on a reserve. In positioning our participants as experts in their own cultures and lived experiences, they are visualizing their own diversity, complexity and importance in the world
A Death in the Family: The Differential Impacts of Losing a Loved One
No full textThis paper will look at how the death of an immediate family member affects the surviving family members, as well as how it impacts the family structure. The death of a parent, the death of a spouse, the death of a child, and the death of a sibling will all be examined and compared to see how these different situations impact different members of the family. Variables such as age, gender, and relation to the deceased turn out to be important predictive factors in how an individual copes with the loss. The family structure must be reorganized after the loss of one of its members, but how families go about this restructuring differs immensely. How the family is restructured has major implications for how the family is able function after the death. Learning how both individuals and family units grieve the loss of an immediate family member and examining the differences, can lead to a better understanding of what grieving processes are the most effective