scholarly journals Getting the Measure of Prosocial Behaviors: A Comparison of Participation and Volunteering Data in the National Child Development Study and the Linked Social Participation and Identity Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (5) ◽  
pp. 1081-1101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Brookfield ◽  
Jane Parry ◽  
Vicki Bolton
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Birth Cohort Study ◽  
Development Study ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
National Child Development Study ◽  
The Social

Measures of prosocial behavior can influence policy, legislation, investment, and inform assessments of the overall state of society. Evidence suggests that methods are important in determining these measures. To widen and deepen our understanding of the complex relationship between these items, we compared participation and volunteering data from a national birth cohort study (National Child Development Study [NCDS]) with data from a linked qualitative study, the Social Participation and Identity Study (SPIS). We evaluated the strengths and prosocial behavior content of each and explored possible links between their respective methodologies and participation and volunteering estimates. We found that prompts and probes were associated with higher estimates and narrow filter questions with lower estimates. The SPIS afforded detailed insights into lived experiences and personal narratives of volunteering and participating, whereas the NCDS supported analysis of these behaviors over time and from a lifecourse perspective. Implications for researchers and policy makers are considered.

scholarly journals Последствия школьной травли для ее участников

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 393-409
Author(s):  
А.А. Бочавер
Keyword(s):  
Cohort Study ◽  
Child Development ◽  
Birth Cohort ◽  
Birth Cohort Study ◽  
Development Study ◽  
National Child Development Study ◽  
Great Smoky Mountain

Статья посвящена краткосрочным и отдаленным последствиям, которые может оказывать опыт участия в школьном буллинге на различные аспекты благополучия вырастающих школьников в дальнейшем. Приводятся данные междисциплинарных лонгитюдных исследований (в первую очередь, British National Child Development Study, The Great Smoky Mountain Study, Finnish 1981 Birth Cohort Study и др.), метаанализов, а также «поперечных срезов», в которых анализируются последствия ситуаций школьного буллинга. Показано, что буллинг в школе вносит вклад в повышение рисков самоповреждающего и суицидального поведения, психосоматических проблем, употребления психоактивных веществ, криминализации и др., причем многое касается не только тех, кто оказывался в роли жертвы буллинга, но и тех, кто играл роль агрессивной жертвы или агрессора в буллинг-ситуациях. Вовлеченность в ситуацию буллинга негативно отражается в перспективе на физическом и психическом здоровье, реализуемой образовательной траектории и вовлеченности в учебу, дружеских и супружеских отношениях, успешности трудоустройства, финансовом благополучии выросших школьников. Спектр негативных последствий буллинга чрезвычайно широк и должен учитываться в проектировании антибуллинговых программ. В то же время налицо недостаток исследований последствий буллинга для детей, которые присутствовали в ситуациях буллинга в роли свидетелей: некоторые данные указывают на то, что такой опыт тоже может иметь негативные последствия для социализации, однако эти представления нуждаются в дальнейшем изучении. Наконец, рассматриваются основные направления и выигрыши от внедрения системы профилактики и прекращения буллинга в образовательных учреждениях.

scholarly journals Social engagement from childhood to middle age and the effect of childhood socio-economic status on middle age social engagement: results from the National Child Development study

2014 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 482-507 ◽  
Author(s):  
HEIDI HIETANEN ◽  
MARJA AARTSEN ◽  
NOONA KIURU ◽  
TIINA-MARI LYYRA ◽  
SANNA READ
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Social Engagement ◽  
Middle Age ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Voluntary Work ◽  
Development Study ◽  
Social Contacts ◽  
National Child Development Study ◽  
Socio Economic Status ◽  
The Social

ABSTRACTSocial engagement has powerful effects on wellbeing, but variation in individual engagement throughout the lifecourse is wide. The trajectories may differ by gender and be affected by socio-economic status (SES). However, long-term development of social engagement is little studied and the effect of childhood SES on later-life social engagement remains obscure. We aimed to describe the social engagement development from childhood to middle age by gender and test the effect of childhood SES on middle age social engagement. Data (N=16,440, 51.3% male) are drawn from the on-going National Child Development Study, following British babies born in 1958. Social engagement was measured by social activities, voluntary work and social contacts, with follow-ups at age 11, 16, 23 and 50. SES was measured by father's occupational social class and tenure status. Structural equation modelling suggested inter-individual stability in social engagement, showing that development of social engagement started in childhood and increased social engagement in middle age through adolescence and early adulthood. Longitudinal effects were detected within and across the social engagement domains. Lower childhood SES was significantly related to a lower level of voluntary work and social activity in middle age, but to higher levels of social contacts. Although stability in social engagement is moderate over the lifecourse, variation within and across the different social engagement domains is shaped by differences in childhood SES.

scholarly journals Associations Between Hearing and Cognitive Abilities From Childhood to Middle Age: The National Child Development Study 1958

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 233121652110537
Author(s):  
Judith A Okely ◽  
Michael A Akeroyd ◽  
Ian J Deary
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Cognitive Ability ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Middle Age ◽  
Reciprocal Relationship ◽  
Birth Cohort Study ◽  
Development Study ◽  
National Child Development Study ◽  
Hearing Ability ◽  
Over Time

Previous cross-sectional findings indicate that hearing and cognitive abilities are positively correlated in childhood, adulthood, and older age. We used an unusually valuable longitudinal dataset from a single-year birth cohort study, the National Child Development Study 1958, to test how hearing and cognitive abilities relate to one another across the life course from childhood to middle age. Cognitive ability was assessed with a single test of general cognitive ability at age 11 years and again with multiple tests at age 50. Hearing ability was assessed, using a pure tone audiogram, in childhood at ages 11 and 16 and again at age 44. Associations between childhood and middle-age hearing and cognitive abilities were investigated using structural equation modelling. We found that higher cognitive ability was associated with better hearing (indicated by a lower score on the hearing ability variables); this association was apparent in childhood ( r  =  -0.120, p <0.001) and middle age ( r  =  -0.208, p <0.001). There was a reciprocal relationship between hearing and cognitive abilities over time: better hearing in childhood was weakly associated with a higher cognitive ability in middle age ( β  =  -0.076, p  =  0.001), and a higher cognitive ability in childhood was associated with better hearing in middle age ( β  =  -0.163, p <0.001). This latter, stronger effect was mediated by occupational and health variables in adulthood. Our results point to the discovery of a potentially life-long relationship between hearing and cognitive abilities and demonstrate how these variables may influence one another over time.

scholarly journals Childhood coordination and survival up to six decades later: extended follow-up of participants in the National Child Development Study

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. David Batty ◽  
Ian J. Deary ◽  
Mark Hamer ◽  
Stuart J. Ritchie ◽  
David Bann
Keyword(s):  
Cohort Study ◽  
Child Development ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Motor Coordination ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Fine Motor ◽  
Birth Cohort Study ◽  
Development Study ◽  
National Child Development Study

AbstractBackgroundPoorer performance on standard tests of motor coordination in children has emerging links with sedentary behaviour, obesity, and functional capacity in later life. These observations are suggestive of an as-yet untested association of coordination with health outcomes.ObjectiveTo examine the association of performance on a series of psychomotor coordination tests in childhood with mortality up to six decades later.Design, Setting, and ParticipantsThe National Child Development Study (1958 birth cohort study) is a prospective cohort study based on a nationally representative sample of births from England, Scotland and Wales. A total of 17,415 individuals had their gross and fine motor psychomotor coordination assessed using nine tests at 11 and 16 years of age.Main outcome and measureAll-cause mortality as ascertained from a vital status registry and survey records.ResultsMortality surveillance between 7 and 58 years of age in an analytical sample of 17,336 men and women yielded 1,090 deaths. After adjustment for sex, higher scores on seven of the nine childhood coordination tests were associated with a lower risk of mortality in a stepwise manner. After further statistical control for early life socioeconomic, health, cognitive, and developmental factors, relations at conventional levels of statistical significance remains for three tests: ball catching at age 11 (hazard ratio; 95% confidence interval for 0-8 versus 10 catches: 1.56; 1.21, 2.01), match-picking at age 11 (>50 seconds versus 0-36: 1.33; 1.03, 1.70), and hopping at age 16 years (very unsteady versus very steady: 1.29; 1.02, 1.64).Conclusion and RelevanceThe apparent predictive utility of early life psychomotor coordination requires replication.Key pointsQuestionWhat is the association of performance on a series of psychomotor coordination tests in childhood with mortality up to six decades later?FindingsAfter taking into account multiple confounding factors, lower performance on three gross and fine motors skills tests in childhood were associated with a shorter survival over six decades.MeaningThese findings require replication in other contexts and using complementary observational approaches.

scholarly journals The politics of the excluded: abjection and reconciliation amongst the British precariat

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Savage ◽  
Cynthia Meersohn Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Representative Sample ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Popular Politics ◽  
Development Study ◽  
National Child Development Study ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Contemporary Britain

AbstractIn this paper, we use a powerful empirical resource to address what the popular politics of disadvantage might entail in contemporary Britain. We take advantage of the unusually rich qualitative data from the British National Child Development Study, a cohort of Britons born in 1 week in 1958, to focus specifically on the accounts of those who are particularly disadvantaged. By concentrating on these a small number of qualitative accounts, which have been rigorously selected from the wider nationally representative sample on the basis of their relatively small amounts of economic and cultural capital, we will explore in detail the accounts and identities of these disadvantaged Britons with a view to explicating their political frameworks, their social identities and more broadly their orientations towards mobilisation.

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