Thesis (Ed.D.)--Boston University / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / The motivation to volunteer and the satisfaction associated with volunteering were investigated through the responses of volunteer youth coaches (n = 100). Two surveys and follow-up interview questions were created and adapted from previous research in the area of volunteerism to determine reasons why adults volunteer to coach and to explore the factors that contribute to the satisfaction levels of youth coaches. Statistical analyses of variance were conducted to determine the relationship between each of the motivation and satisfaction variables with the gender of the volunteer coaches, the gender of the team coached (male, female, or both), and the completion of a coaching education program. The highest ranked motives for volunteering according to the sample included: to give back to the community, enjoyment associating with youth, and to teach and lead others. Overall the respondents were highly satisfied with their role as a youth coach, the organization of games and practices, and the recognition received for volunteering. Through the interview process (n = 20) various themes emerged from the responses of the volunteer coaches. The reasons for volunteering, according to the interviewed coaches, were that most people volunteer because their child is involved in the program, no other adult would coach, to contribute to society, and their lack of trust in other coaches. / 2031-01-01

This thesis explores the everyday lives and dreams of young people living in urban poverty in Thailand, focusing on their practices and aspirations within three key spheres of action. In recent years, a number of emerging bodies of literature have taken youth in the developing world as the objects of their analysis; the literature on youth in Thailand, studies of youth and development within the Thai and international spheres, and the new anthropology of youth each focus on the lives of young people – social, cultural and economic – and see youth as active agents in the creation of society, culture and the economy. This thesis, drawing on the analysis of ethnographic data, contends that each of these bodies of literature constructs young people in partial or misleading ways, and in particular that insufficient emphasis is placed on the unintended consequences that can ensue from everyday practice and the pursuit of dreams. It argues that if these emerging literatures on youth in the developing world are to adequately conceptualise and represent young people, then they must attend to these unintended consequences. As the thesis will demonstrate, doing so facilitates analysis of the ways in which different spheres of action affect each other, of the structures that constrain and enable young people, and of the way in which attempting to participate in dominant cultures can have profoundly counter-productive outcomes. The thesis also explores some of the methodological processes involved in immersion in, and withdrawal from, „the field‟. It argues that one of the tasks of social research is to bring out the multiple and shifting nature of interpretation, and to be explicit about the contexts in which such interpretations are produced.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Boston University / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / The purpose of this study was to explore parents' motivations for encouraging their children to participate in youth sport and to develop a scale to measure the aforementioned motivators. The study was conducted in three phases. The first phase consisted of the development of items for the initial Parents' Motivations for Children's Participation in Sport Scale (PMCPSS). The second phase encompassed administeting the PMCPSS to parents from a range of sports and analyzing that data through factor and item analyses. The third phase consisted of qualitative analysis and using the PMCPSS to examine differences in parental motivations. The sample consisted of 405 parents with children participating in the following youth sports: ice hockey, soccer, baseball, basketball, figure skating, volleyball, swimming, and lacrosse. Exploratory factor analysis and item analyses revealed 8 factors labeled as: Life skills; Identification with the child/sport experience; Leam to perform and compete; Child Self-Acceptance; Physical and social development; Enjoyment and family bonding; Achievement and rewards; and Interpersonal skill development. In addition to the reliability coefficients for each factor, a coefficient alpha estimate was conducted to examine the entire scale's reliability. Based on the factor and item analysis, 65 items were retained and the PMCPSS had an overall alpha of .954 and the 8 factors accounted for 49.1% of the variance. Moreover, qualitative analysis of the open-ended responses supported the eight-factor structure of the PMCPSS. Independent-samples t tests were then run utilizing the 65 item PMCPSS to evaluate parental differences (mothers and fathers) on each of the eight factors. This study builds upon previous research in youth sport with four significant contributions. First, it represents an initial step toward understanding why parents encourage their children to participate in youth sport. Second, the results indicate that parents' motivations for encouraging their children to participate in youth sport are multidimensional. Third, it led to the development of an instrument (the PMCPSS) that measures parents' motivations for encouraging their children to participate in youth sport that can be used for future research . Fourth, it demonstrates how the PMCPSS can be used in future research. / 2031-01-01

Parental depression has been highlighted as a major risk factor for the development of psychopathology in children and adolescents (Mars et al, 2012; Sellers et al, 2013). Garber & Martin (2002) suggest that the primary environmental stressor that children living with depressed parents are exposed to relates to the impact of maternal depression on marital conflict. Interparental conflict has been demonstrated to have negative effects on various aspects of family functioning and relationships. Strong associations between conflict levels in parental relationships and negative parent-child relationships support this theory (Erel & Burmann, 1995). The parent- child relationship is viewed as a central mechanism for the transmission of psychopathology across generations of a family (Rutter et al., 2010). This thesis examines the relationship between parental depression and family processes (specifically interparental and parent-child relationships) on the development of depressive and aggressive symptoms in children and adolescents. Four data sets examine these associations: a high risk sample of parents with recurrent depression and their adolescent children (Early Prediction of Adolescent Depression, EPADS), a community sample of low-risk adolescents and their families (Welsh Family Study, WFS), a sample of families who have conceived children using Artificial Reproductive Technologies (the Cardiff IVF Study, C-IVF) and a longitudinal adoption study (Early Growth and Development Study, EGDS). Findings from this thesis presents evidence that a process exists by which parental depressive symptoms contribute to the development of psychopathology in children and adolescents through disrupted interparental and parent-child relationships. Parental depression was consistently associated with interparental conflict, which in turn was associated with higher levels of parent-child hostility. For child outcomes, the most consistent finding was the association between parent-child hostility and child and adolescent symptoms of aggression. This was observed in all four data sets, in a variety of samples and across a range of developmental periods. The association was observed where adolescents were classed as being at either a high or low-risk for the development of psychopathology, and for those families where parents were rearing genetically related and genetically unrelated children.

Statement of the problem: Indigenous youth in Canada are much more likely to be either physically and/or psychologically at risk than other population groups in the same age range. However, help for indigenous youth at risk frequently arrives too late: it often takes too long for family, friends, community, and government to identify the indigenous youth who are at risk. Another problem is that it takes some time for anyone who is voluntarily seeking help to inform their closely connected family and friends about their at-risk situations. Besides these barriers, some conditions are associated with social stigmas especially drug addiction and mental ill-health. The delayed identification of indigenous youth at risk poses great challenges for how to provide them with assistance and treatment. Research questions: This research aims to answer four questions: (i) How are indigenous organizations using Facebook to connect with youth at risk? (ii) How are urban indigenous youth expressing themselves on Facebook when they feel or are at risk? (iii) In what ways can the text mining of indigenous organizations’ Facebook data identify the risks among urban indigenous youth and at-risk individuals? (iv) How can the findings from the research question # 1, # 2, and # 3 be adapted to enable Facebook’s News Feed algorithm to address the needs of at risk urban indigenous youth? Research methodology: This research used mixed methods for data collection. Qualitative data was obtained from field surveys that were conducted in the form of interviews, focus group discussions and observations. For the quantitative data collection, I gathered and analyzed the Facebook usage data of indigenous community organizations to discover their Facebook patterns using text mining techniques available in the SAS Visual Analytics application. Lastly, all theparticipants in focus group discussions were asked to answer a survey questionnaire seeking information related to his or her demographic and personal Facebook usage behaviour. Significant findings: Many urban indigenous youths generate and share content on Facebook when they feel at risk physically or psychologically. Yet they do not see any content in their Facebook News Feed that is relevant or helpful to them for managing that risk, such as pointers to health and public services. This investigation also discovered that there are indicators such as the verbal tone of Facebook posts and images as well as changes in relationship status that could be used to help identify at-risk youth and provide them with helpful information. The research results also reveal that Facebook is a part of the problem insofar as it is a channel for such behaviours as cyberbullying, online harassment and the spread of harmful memes. Contribution: The results from this research, when deployed, may help to improve the lives of indigenous communities by enabling the detection of youth who are at risk physically and/or physiologically and provide the necessary indicators for Facebook to adapt its News Feeds to bias the Facebook walls of the youth at risk with items such as positive posts found in their own cycle of Facebook friends’ accounts and targeted news and advertising that can improve social outcomes for these populations.

鄧穎暉. / "2008年6月". / "2008 nian 6 yue". / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 33-36). / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / Deng Yinghui. / 鳴謝 --- p.ii / 摘要 --- p.iii / 目錄 --- p.iv / 序言 --- p.1 / 章數 / Chapter 一、 --- 貞潔的歷史面貌一教會對貞潔的追求 --- p.2 / Chapter 二、 --- 貞潔運動的論述與規訓 --- p.6 / Chapter ´Ø --- 貞潔運動一從美國到本地 / Chapter ´Ø --- 貞潔運動的青年論述 / Chapter ´Ø --- 貞潔運動的規訓 / Chapter 三、 --- 貞潔與解放一從二元論述邁向「第三空間」 --- p.15 / Chapter ´Ø --- 成人與青年的曖昧關係 / Chapter ´Ø --- 貞潔論述與性壓抑假說 / Chapter ´Ø --- 「第三空間」與青年故事 / Chapter 四、 --- 「第三空間」、故事與神學關聯 --- p.22 / Chapter ´Ø --- 故事之神學意義 / Chapter ´Ø --- 青年故事與神學的相互關聯 / 結語 --- p.32 / 參考資料 --- p.33

Abstract Youth sports have been shown to be beneficial to the overall development of children and adolescents. Research showed youth sports participation helps children develop academically, physically, and mentally. However, there is a high attrition rate of youth sports participants. What coaches think about youth's attrition in sports and their role in fostering or hindering young athletes' participation is not well known. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore youth coaches' perception of their role in a young person's decision to continue participating in their sport of preference. The conceptualizations of autonomy-supportive coaching strategy and Erickson's developmental theory were used as the theoretical basis for this study. Twelve youth coaches were interviewed using semistructured interviews. Data were analyzed using Moustakas' modification of Van Kaam's method of analysis. Six major themes emerged from the data: (a) sports are about having fun, (b) developing life skills, (c) coaching philosophy, (d) reasons kids quit sports, (e) good coaches keep kids engaged in sports, and (f) winning and losing. Results indicated that youth coaches believe they play a significant role in keeping kids engaged in sports. They emphasized the importance of having fun in playing sports; and they deemphasized the importance of winning as a major outcome. This study has the potential to promote a better environment for young participants by exposing the contributing factors leading to the attrition rate in youth sports. Results of this study inform coaches, parents, and administrators about the needs of the children in their sports programs.

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Thesis (Ed. D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, School of Education, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references.