scholarly journals Resilience in Children and Adolescents during the Covid-19 pandemic

Author(s):  
Alexander-Stamatios Antoniou ◽  
Eirini Palivakou ◽  
Fotini Polychroni

Purpose: The coronavirus pandemic has affected people's lives. Children and adolescents are a a group affected by the consequences of the pandemic. The purpose of this study was to investigate the levels of resilience in children and adolescents in relation to school grade, gender and school performance during the Covid-19 pandemic. Methods: In the present study 836 primary and secondary school students completed an online questionnaire on resilience during the second and third wave of the pandemic Covid-19 in Greece. Results: Primary school students reported higher levels of resilience as compared to junior high school and high school students. Furthermore, resilience levels were higher for primary and high school girls, while the reverse was true only for high school students. School performance positively correlated with resilience. Conclusion: It appears that children are better able to cope with challenges and stress demonstrating a capacity to recover from stress, adversity, failure, challenge, or even trauma. The results have implications about the design and the implementation of primary and secondary prevention of social emotional programs in the school community.

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-113
Author(s):  
P. Pac ◽  
A. Gładka ◽  
M. Maciorkowska ◽  
M. Zalewska ◽  
P. Musiałowski ◽  
...  

Introduction: One of the major nutritional mistakes committed by children and adolescents is snacking between meals. Sweet or salty snacks are rich in simple sugars, fats, preservatives and dyes, and poor in minerals and vitamins. Their excessive consumption can lead to the development of diet-related diseases in the future. Purpose: To evaluate the nutrition of children and adolescents with a focus on snacking between meals. Materials and methods: The study included 162 students from Bialystok schools, of which primary school students accounted for 30.2%, junior high school 38.3%, high school 31.5%. The questionnaire used by the authors contained 27 questions. Results: Regular meals were consumed by only 55.1% of primary school students, 35.5% of junior high school, and 37.3% of high school students. Two and fewer meals a day were consumed by 1.6% to 5.8% of the students studied. First breakfast was omitted by 18.4% of the students in elementary school, 16.1% of junior high school, and 15.7% of high school. Second breakfast was omitted by 12.9% to 17.6% of the respondents.Sweet products instead of a second breakfast were consumed by 44.9% of primary school students, 61.3% of junior high school, and 64.7% of high school students. Snacking most often occurred in the respondents' home (69.4% of elementary school students, 43.5% of secondary level students, and 52.9% of high school students). Water in school was drunk by 85.7% of primary level students, 56.5% of junior high school, and 51.0% of high school. The main source of knowledge about nutrition for 61.2% of primary level students was the family, while television, radio, and the Internet were the main sources of knowledge for 62.7% of high school students. Conclusions: The regularity of eating in the study group decreased with the studied students’ age. The most popular products in the group of younger students were salty snacks and sweets. Healthy snacking was observed more frequently in the group of high school students. The main place of snacking was the home. The primary source of knowledge about nutrition for primary school students was the family and for high school students the mass media.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-92
Author(s):  
Ganesha Sekar Ayu Wardhani ◽  
Agus Purnomo ◽  
Agung Wiradimadja

The Covid-19 pandemic has an impact on all aspects, including education. This pandemic also impacts education in Malang City, and the Education Office has implemented learning from home policy. However, implementation for two semesters shows that both the school and students are relatively not ready to be involved in distance learning activities. This article aims to look at the tendency of learning readiness to understand the material of Junior High School students in Malang City during distance learning. The quantitative survey approach answers questions that answer the purpose of this article. The calculation of Slovin determined student readiness data collected from all state Junior High Schools in Malang City as many as 400 people with a degree of error of 5%. The data technique uses an online questionnaire (google form). The data is managed through the editing, scoring, coding, and tabulating stages, which are the basis for conducting a cross-tabulation analysis. Field findings show that public Junior High School students in Malang City have a high level of learning readiness and tend to understand the material with an average percentage of 60%. The implications of these findings contribute to understanding the implementation of distance learning from the student's point of view regarding the aspect of readiness-recommendations for further research related to how distance learning is managed based on the existing readiness profile.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
DEWI KURNIA HEROWATI

This study aims to determine the epidemic preparedness of junior high school students who have studied the respiratory system against the Covid-19 outbreak. Classification of diseases including pandemics, endemics or epidemics based on the area affected in a certain time. The increasing epidemic of Covid-19 has an impact on health, social and economy, especially in developing countries so that epidemic preparedness needs to be carried out for timely detection of epidemics followed by prompt and appropriate responses. This type of research is a qualitative descriptive study, with the research design used is survey research. The subject of this study consisted of 554 junior high school students in several areas including West Java, Central Java, Special Region of Yogyakarta, East Java, and Batam. The students have learned the respiratory system. Data collection was carried out in May 2020. The data collection method used was an online questionnaire through Google Form about epidemic preparedness especially Covid-19 which is a respiratory system disease. The results of the analysis showed that endemic preparedness in 8th and 9th grade junior high school students in several schools in Indonesia, showed an index of 73.97. That number is between 65 to 79 so that it can be categorized as advanced in endemic preparedness in the face of the current Covid-19 pandemic outbreak. The conclusion of this study is that the epidemic preparedness of junior high school students on the Covid-19 outbreak falls into the “Advanced” category.


Khazanah ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Risma Galuh Pitaloka Fahdin ◽  

Background: Nowadays, Tik Tok as one of the most popular applications influences the growth of its users significantly because it can be used for educational purposes. The growth of content creators that teaches everything based on their background knowledge takes positive impact on people who watch their videos. Especially videos that increase vocabulary and the usage of it, for example, a video that shows people do something while mention what they do can be called as verb. Today, many content creators make English material content. One of the reasons people difficult to understand English language is because they do not understand the meaning. This study aims to describe the influence of Tik Tok to improve vocabularies. By improving various vocabularies they are easy to understand what they read, speak, and listen. Junior high school and senior high school students were the participants of this research. Method: This research used survey as research design by applying online questionnaire as instrument. Results: The findings of this research show that short videos on Tik Tok that contain English material contents help them to expand their English vocabularies. Students show positive feedback of utilizing Tik Tok as their language learning media that the English content videos easy to understand and easy to memorize various vocabularies they found on those videos, like vocabularies about verbs, nouns, etc. Conclusion: Using Tik Tok as the media for learning language can be considered nowadays. Students expressed positive impact of English material contents that increase their vocabulary by watching those videos.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 294-307
Author(s):  
Atika Permata Sari

AbstractOvercoming anger in children and adolescents becomes a challenge considering children and adolescents cannot yet understand and manage anger. Most of teenagers tend to manifest anger in the form of aggressive behavior. The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of cognitive behavior anger management training (CB-AMT) on increasing anger management related knowledge and reducing aggression in junior high school students identified as having aggression behavior problem. The study design was one group pretest-posttest with a total of six participants consists of two girls and four boys. Each participant was identified as being in borderline clinical range in the aspect of aggression using child behavior checklist (CBCL). Participants attended three sessions of training with duration ranging from 120-150 minutes each. Statistical analysis using Wilcoxon showed that there is an increase in knowledge right after training. One month after the training, all participants experienced a decrease in aggression scores based on CBCL. Four participants experienced a change in category from the borderline clinical range to normal range. CB-AMT effective in increasing anger manager related knowledge and reducing aggression in junior high school students. Keywords: Aggression; Cognitive Behavioral Anger Management Training (CB-AMT); Early adolescence  Abstrak Mengatasi rasa marah pada anak-anak dan remaja menjadi suatu tantangan mengingat anak-anak dan remaja belum memiliki kemampuan untuk memahami dan mengatur rasa marah. Mayoritas remaja cenderung mewujudkan rasa marah dalam bentuk perilaku agresi. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui efektivitas penerapan cognitive behavioral anger management training (CB-AMT) dalam meningkatkan pengetahuan yang berhubungan dengan anger management dan menurunkan perilaku agresi siswa SMP yang teridentifikasi memiliki permasalahan perilaku agresi. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian one group pretest-posttest dengan partisipan sebanyak enam orang yang terdiri atas dua orang perempuan dan empat orang laki-laki. Seluruh partisipan teridentifikasi berada pada borderline clinical range pada aspek agresi menggunakan pengukuran CBCL. Partisipan mengikuti tiga sesi pelatihan dengan durasi masing-masing berkisar antara 120 – 150 menit. Analisis statistik menunjukkan terdapat peningkatan pengetahuan tepat setelah mengikuti pelatihan. Satu bulan setelah pelatihan diberikan diketahui seluruh partisipan mengalami penurunan skor agresi berdasarkan pengukuran CBCL. Empat dari enam partisipan mengalami perubahan rentang agresi menjadi normal range setelah sebelumnya berada pada borderline clinical range. CB-AMT terbukti efektif dalam meningkatkan pengetahuan berhubungan dengan anger management dan menurunkan perilaku agresi pada siswa SMP. Kata kunci: Agresi; Cognitive Behavioral Anger Management Training (CB-AMT); Remaja awal


2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-83
Author(s):  
Yunita Arihandayani ◽  
Evi Martha

ABSTRACT  The proportion of sedentary behavior is increasing in all age groups, both in adults and children, from year to year. Various adverse health effects in children and adolescents can occur due to sedentary behavior carried out continuously over a long period of time. Several factors are associated with the practice of sedentary behavior in children and adolescents. This study aims to determine factors associated with sedentary behavior in junior high school students in Cibinong sub-district, Bogor regency, West Java province. The research used cross sectional study design with 312 junior high school students of 7th and 8th grade. Data were collected using questionnaires that had been pre-tested for validity and reliability and were analyzed using chi-square test and multiple logistic regression in SPSS. The results showed 50.6% of respondents performed sedentary behavior more than 6 hours. Age (OR= 1.9), peer support (OR=1.8) and school facilities (OR=0.2)  were associated with sedentary behavior. Students who are older, do not have peer support, and attend school with insufficient facilities are more likely to conduct sedentary behavior. For that reason, in order to prevent sedentary behavior among students, it is important to consider the age of the student, the fulfillment of adequate school facilities and the presence of peer support among students. Keywords: Sedentary behavior, student, parenting patterns, school regulations and facilities   ABSTRAK Proporsi perilaku sedentari semakin meningkat pada semua kelompok umur, baik pada orang dewasa dan anak-anak, dari tahun ke tahun. Pada anak-anak dan remaja, berbagai dampak kesehatan merugikan dapat terjadi akibat perilaku sedentari yang dilakukan secara terus menerus dalam jangka waktu lama. Beberapa faktor berhubungan dengan terjadinya perilaku sedentari pada anak-anak dan remaja. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui faktor-faktor yang berhubungan dengan perilaku sedentari pada siswa SMP di Kecamatan Cibinong, Kabupaten Bogor, Provinsi Jawa Barat. Penelitian menggunakan desain cross sectional dengan jumlah sampel sebanyak 312 siswa SMP kelas 7 dan kelas 8. Data dikumpulkan menggunakan kuesioner yang sudah diuji validitas dan reliabilitasnya serta dianalisis menggunakan regresi logistik ganda. Sebanyak 50,6% responden melakukan perilaku sedentari lebih dari 6 jam. Hasil analisis membuktikan faktor umur (OR=1,9), dukungan teman sebaya (OR=1,8), dan fasilitas  sekolah (OR= 0,2) berhubungan dengan perilaku sedentari. Ini artinya bahwa siswa dengan usia lebih tua, yang tidak memiliki dukungan teman sebaya, dan yang bersekolah di sekolah dengan fasilitas kurang memadai kemungkinan lebih besar untuk berperilaku sedentari. Untuk itu, dalam upaya pencegahan perilaku sedentari pada siswa, perlu diperhatikan umur siswa, pemenuhan fasilitas sekolah yang memadai serta adanya dukungan teman sebaya dalam pergaulan siswa. Kata kunci: Perilaku sedentari, siswa, pola asuh, fasilitas sekolah, peraturan sekolah


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Rachmaniar Rachmaniar ◽  
Puji Prihandini ◽  
Preciosa Alnashava Janitra

This study aims to determine the use of smartphones and how these technologies allow access to pornography among junior high school girls. Using a qualitative descriptive study method, this study examines ownership of smartphones and pornographic content that may be accessed via smartphones. The informants were four students of SMP Negeri 2, Padalarang, West Java. Data collection was conducted through in-depth interviews and observation. The results showed that junior high school students started to have regular mobile devices since they were still in elementary school. After they began to use smartphones at junior high school, they were inadvertently exposed to the pornographic content. These findings reveal that how more sophisticated technological devices have the potential to open access to pornographic content. Keywords: Adolescent, Smartphones, Pornography 


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