Experiences of School Participation and the Need for School-Participation Leave for Employed Parents

Background: School participation and educational attainment among adolescents have been rising rapidly in the developing world. Thus, to attain Millennium Development Goal 6 (Combat HIV and/or AIDs, malaria and other diseases), it is crucial to seize the opportunity to educate and encourage teenagers about healthy choices and proper social behaviours that will continue into adulthood.Aim: This study aimed to assess the exposure of rural secondary school learners to health education and promotion at schools in the Limpopo Province of South Africa.Setting: This study was carried out at 10 secondary schools in Vhumbedzi educational circuit.Methodology: The study adopted a cross-sectional quantitative approach. Data were collected from 338 randomly selected learners from 10 secondary schools that make up a rural Vhumbedzi circuit in the Limpopo province. A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data.Results: The findings showed that, 102 (66.07%) male and 121 (67.60%) female learners reported that they were taught about physical changes that occur during adolescence. In the same vein, most of the participants (n = 128, 84.39%) and (n = 152, 85.39%) males and females respectively claimed to have been taught about sexually transmitted diseases.Conclusion: In this study the secondary schools in the Limpopo Province of South Africa are making efforts to uphold and expose their learners to health education and promotion at school.Keyword: Health education and promotion, adolescents, school, learners

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Rhythms of Life: Antecedents and Outcomes of Work-Family Balance in Employed Parents.

Journal of Applied Psychology ◽

10.1037/0021-9010.90.1.132 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 90 (1) ◽

pp. 132-146 ◽

Cited By ~ 364

Author(s):

Samuel Aryee ◽

E. S. Srinivas ◽

Hwee Hoon Tan

Keyword(s):

Family Balance ◽

Work Family Balance ◽

Work Family ◽

Employed Parents

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A Qualitative Case Study on School Participation of Parents of Young Children with Hearing Impairment

The Journal of Special Children Education ◽

10.21075/kacsn.2008.10.3.75 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 75-99

Author(s):

이수정 ◽

CHOI, SUNG KYU

Keyword(s):

Young Children ◽

Hearing Impairment ◽

Qualitative Case Study ◽

School Participation

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Arsenic Exposure and School Participation in Cambodia

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.2907461 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Chan Hang Saing ◽

Colin Cannonier

Keyword(s):

Arsenic Exposure ◽

School Participation

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PENGARUH BANTUAN KARTU INDONESIA PINTAR (KIP) TERHADAP HARAPAN SEKOLAH DI PROVINSI JAWA TIMUR TAHUN 2017

Media Trend ◽

10.21107/mediatrend.v14i2.5799 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

pp. 283-293

Author(s):

Bondan Satriawan

Keyword(s):

Logistic Regression ◽

Quantitative Research ◽

Regression Technique ◽

Job Status ◽

Level Of Education ◽

Household Characteristics ◽

School Year ◽

School Participation ◽

Analysis Technique ◽

Positive Effect

This study aims to determine and analyze the effect of the Smart Indonesia Card assistance on school expectations in East Java Province. This research is a quantitative research with 2017 SUSENAS data with 496 consonations. The analysis technique used to prove and test the hypothesis proposed is logistic regression technique. The results of this study resulted in that the Smart Indonesia Card (KIP) had a significant and positive effect on school participation and school participation in the previous school year (2015/2016) in the East Java province. In addition, household characteristics, namely the level of education of the head of the household, also significantly and positively influenced school participation and school participation in the previous school year (2015/2016) in the East Java province. Job status variables of the head of the household have a significant and positive effect on school participation but have no significant effect on school participation in the previous school year (2015/2016).

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Farmer Business School Participation in Ghana: Implications for Market Orientation, Entrepreneurial Proclivity and Livelihood Performance

Journal of Agriculture and Crops ◽

10.32861/jac.81.1.6 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-6

Author(s):

Enoch Kwame Tham-Agyekum ◽

Fred Nimoh ◽

John-Eudes Bakang ◽

Jones Ebenezer Osei ◽

Kwadwo Amankwah ◽

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Keyword(s):

Standard Deviation ◽

Market Orientation ◽

Business School ◽

Sampling Technique ◽

T Test ◽

School Participation ◽

Multi Stage ◽

Cocoa Farmer ◽

Cocoa Farmers

The study assumes that participation in the Farmer Business School (FBS) gives the cocoa farmer an advantage over the non-participants. The following objectives were set to give an overall appreciation of the research; determine the extent to which participation in the FBS has influenced the market orientation of the cocoa farmers, determine the extent to which participation in the FBS has influenced the entrepreneurial proclivity of cocoa farmers and determine the extent to which participation in the FBS has influenced the livelihood of the cocoa farmers. With this in mind, 600 cocoa farmers were sampled in Ghana using the multi-stage sampling technique. Data were analyzed using mean, standard deviation, and the independent sample t-test. The results show that participation in the Farmer Business School indeed gives the cocoa farmers an advantage; market orientation (p<0.05), an entrepreneurial proclivity (p<0.05), and livelihood outcomes (p<0.05). There is a need to continually strengthen activities that promote these three key areas.

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Provjera faktorske strukture hrvatske verzije upitnika „Fleksibilnost granica radne i obiteljske uloge“

Revija za socijalnu politiku ◽

10.3935/rsp.v28i2.1713 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 28 (2) ◽

pp. 187-203

Author(s):

Maja Laklija ◽

Slavica Blažeka Kokorić ◽

Gordana Berc

Keyword(s):

Factor Structure ◽

Work And Family ◽

Family Role ◽

Family Obligations ◽

Cronbach Alpha ◽

Job Requirements ◽

The Family ◽

Work Family ◽

Employed Parents ◽

Ability And Willingness

FACTORS’ STRUCTURE OF CROATIAN VERSION OF THE QUESTIONNAIRE »BOUNDARY FLEXIBILITY OF WORK AND FAMILY ROLE The aim of this paper was to verify the factor structure and metric characteristics of the Croatian version of the questionnaire »Boundary Flexibility« (Matthews & Barnes-Farrell, 2010.). The survey was conducted on a convenient sample of 187 employed parents of underage children. In the data analysis, factor analysis and Spearman correlation coefficient were used. The three-factor structure of the questionnaire was obtained: the first factor »Family plans adjustment to the job requirements« contains six items (Cronbach alfa = 0.891), indicating readiness of respondents to adjust family plans to job requirements. The second factor in »Job requirements adjustment to the family role« (Cronbach alpha = 0.814) contains eight items, which point out the ability and willingness of respondents to adjust their job requirements to family obligations. The third factor, »Possibility of increased engagement at work without major difficulties in performing family obligations«, contains four items (Cronbach alpha = 0.784), and refers to the respondents’ ability to meet increased demands at work, without adverse effects and significant difficulties in the family role. Given that the extracted sub-scales are not fully matched to the factor structure of the original questionnaire, the obtained results point out to certain specifics in the application of the Croatian version of this questionnaire. Verification of the metric characteristics has shown the satisfactory reliability of the obtained sub-scales and the possibility of further application of this instrument. Key words: work-family role balance, boundary flexibility, metric characteristics of the questionnaire.

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