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| Nepalese child labourers' life-contexts, cognitive skills and well -being | ||
| 作者 | Alaraudanjoki, Esa Antero (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Dissertation Abstracts International |
| 卷期 | v.65 n.3 Section C |
| 出版日期 | 2003 |
| 出版者 | ProQuest LLC |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.proquest.com/ |
| 出版地 | Ann Arbor, MI, US [安娜堡, 密西根州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 學位類別 | Psy.D. |
| 校院名稱 | Jyvaskylan Yliopisto |
| 畢業年度 | 2003 |
| 附註項 | 62p |
| 關鍵詞 | Cognitive skills; Well-being; Child labor; Nepal; Quality of life |
| 摘要 | This dissertation thesis consists of a summary report and three substudies. In first article, the theoretical background of this thesis was reviewed under the title “Child labour—A Multi-disciplinary review” (Alaraudanjoki, 2000). The purpose was to examine the issue of child labour in the context of research in the disciplines of economics, anthropology, sociology, education, and psychology, together with the institutional contexts. The review showed that (1) the value accorded to children's participation in working life in Southern contexts depends on the degree of socioeconomic development of the particular country in question. (2) It challenged the ‘truism’ of the modernization theory regarding the transformation of collectivist values towards individualistic Western values. In second and third articles, the overall objective of these two empirical studies was to investigate whether the children working in the carpet factories in the city of Kathmandu differ on their cognitive skills and psychological well-being from their peers who live in the country-side and go to school. The data (N = 194 Cognitive Skills; N = 254 Psychological well-being) were collected in 1996–97. The children were matched for age (10–14 years), and ethnic background (Tibeto-Burmese language group, and Buddhism religion). The main results showed that the school group was better in all the cognitive tests, except for Digit Span Backwards where there were no differences between the school and labouring groups. Secondly, findings showed that the boys were better in arithmetic skills than the girls when they had long working experience. Thirdly, the labouring children reported higher levels of anxiety compared to the school children. Fourthly, the school group showed a lower internal locus of control than the labourers. External locus of control was found to correlate with anxiety among the child labourers and school-going boys. In conclusion, it is likely that work in the carpet industry develops certain cognitive skills, but this development is restricted to a very narrow field. The relevance of the labourers' higher anxiety and internal locus of control compared to school group remains unclear. The methods used managed to differentiate the children both within and across samples. The concerns of the children reflected their environmental hardships. |
| ISBN | 9513916340; 9789513916343 |
| 點閱次數 | 476 |
| 建檔日期 | 2005.09.23 |
| 更新日期 | 2022.03.23 |
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