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3 pp. / Promoting the health and well-being of families during difficult times.

3 pp. / Promoting the health and well-being of families during difficult times.

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This thesis examines the significance of toy production, distribution, marketing and consumption to Canadian understandings of childhood. Drawing on Patrick J. Ryan’s concept of the discursive landscape of modern childhood and Daniel Thomas Cook’s commercial persona of the child consumer, it explores the effect of toy controversies on a number of social, political and economic issues between the arrival of manufactured toys in Canada in the mid-nineteenth century and the rise of postindustrial capitalism. The toy industry, the social sciences, consumer activists and the Canadian state all played a pivotal role in raising the social significance attached to toy consumption. In the end, debates about toys highlighted popular manifestations of complex political and social issues by placing children and their material culture at the symbolic centre of “adult” conflicts. / Thesis (Ph.D, History) -- Queen's University, 2013-09-15 01:20:03.345

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The problem of this study was to compare the attitudes toward youth of students enrolled in two selected programs of student teaching at North Texas State College.

The purpose of the study was to determine trends between selected factors in the study. Trends between thirty position qualifications and proficiency with children, proficiency with staff, education, age, sex, and length of service were examined, trends between the type of institution, areas of duty, and general proficiency were also examined.

Masters in Public Administration - MPA / Youth today are constantly faced with enormous challenges and are continually faced with job uncertainty and scarce opportunities with almost no means to personal growth. Faced with bleak future livelihood prospects, youth make up a large number of the world’s working poor. Inadequate youth education and lack of labour market preparation still pose challenges for South African youth. They face sizeable constraints to entrepreneurship such as a lack of entrepreneurship culture; lack of entrepreneurship knowledge through formal and informal education; relevant business development services, unsatisfactory business support and insufficient access to financing. Despite this, the extent of research on youth entrepreneurship in Africa is deficient, even non-existent in some contexts. In response to the alarming rate of youth unemployment, the South African government had embarked on realising some of the aspects of the National Youth Policy through youth empowerment via a number of interventions. The implementing agency of all youth development policies and interventions is the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA). The agency has rolled out a number of interventions to address various issues pertinent to the state of the youth in South Africa. However, the specific interventions this study addresses are those related to entrepreneurship, specifically the NYDA Grant programme. Under the Grant programme, a number of issues are addressed such as provision of physical capital, access to resources in the form of advice, guidance and mentorship made available by the National Youth Development Agency to the unemployed youth in the Western Cape. While many youth development programmes have been rolled out both around the world and in South Africa, very little monitoring and evaluation has been conducted in identifying which programmes are effective and sustainable in the long run. At the time of this research, limited information had been accessible with respect to the benefits of entrepreneurship development programmes in South Africa. This research is significant in the sense that it bridges the gaps in the literature on youth entrepreneurship interventions and practical interventions in the field. Furthermore, it provides a lens with which to determine whether they are indeed a sustainable way forward for unemployed youth. Therefore this study conducted a process evaluation using qualitative research methods in order to ascertain if the NYDA is efficiently and effectively executing its mandate with respect to the Grant programme. The research objectives of this study were 1) to conduct a process evaluation of the National Youth Development Agency’s Grant programme, 2) to develop a theoretical and legislative framework underpinning youth in South Africa, 3) to describe and analyse the NYDA’s Grant programme, 4) to highlight the opportunities and challenges that affect the current implementation of the Grant programme and 5) to present recommendations. The findings suggest that the Grant programme has been relevant, timely and useful to young aspiring entrepreneurs providing them with the necessary support through the provision of stock, physical capital and other business support services such as mandatory entrepreneurial training. Despite this, young entrepreneurs still face challenges in sustaining their businesses financially and struggle with establishing a physical space in which they can trade. A number of recommendations were made from the perspectives of the beneficiaries and the NYDA Cape Town Branch implementing staff, namely: increasing staff to improve the administration of the Grant Programme, increasing the grant turnaround time, providing recourse to further funding and physical space and uploading the grant application process onto the internet to save time and money for both beneficiaries and implementing staff.

陳小玲. / Thesis (M.A.)--香港中文大學硏究院社會工作學部. / (Reprint cops. 2 &3) of manuscript. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 269-278). / Chen Xiaoling. / Thesis (M.A.)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue yan jiu yuan she hui gong zuo xue bu. / 鳴謝 --- p.(i) / 提要 --- p.(iii) / 內容綱目 --- p.(vii) / 圖表目錄 --- p.(xv) / Chapter 第一章 --- 前言 --- p.1 / Chapter 第二章 --- 概念與理論架構 --- p.10 / Chapter 第一節 --- 精神健康（mental Health）的定義　 --- p.10 / Chapter 第二節 --- 精神健康問題之成因──家庭方面的理論 --- p.22 / Chapter I --- 有關家庭關係的見解與理論 --- p.23 / Chapter II --- 有關家庭交互過程(Family Interaction Process)的理論 --- p.32 / Chapter 第三節 --- 生活事件之壓力(Life Event Stress)、社會支持與精神健康 --- p.40 / Chapter I --- 生活事件壓力與精神健康　　　　　　　　 --- p.42 / Chapter II --- 社會支持與精神健康的理論與研究　　　　 --- p.45 / Chapter III --- 社會支持的概念與定義　　　　　　　　　 --- p.54 / Chapter 第三章 --- 研究的假設　 --- p.67 / Chapter 第一節 --- 研究的目的　 --- p.67 / Chapter 第二節 --- 研究的假設 --- p.70 / Chapter 第三節 --- 研究的變項 --- p.72 / Chapter 第四章 --- 研究的方法 --- p.90 / Chapter 第一節 --- 研究的對象與樣本 --- p.90 / Chapter 第二節 --- 預試研究(Pilot Jest)　　　　　　　　　　　　 --- p.97 / Chapter 第三節 --- 資料的搜集 --- p.100 / Chapter 第四節 --- 資料分析 --- p.104 / Chapter 第五節 --- 信度(reliability)與效度(Validity)　 --- p.108 / Chapter 第五章 --- 一般的結果 --- p.113 / Chapter 第一節 --- 問卷收集的比率 --- p.113 / Chapter 第二節 --- 量表的信度(reliability) --- p.118 / Chapter 第六章 --- 研究結果──研究對象的剖象(subject profile) --- p.123 / Chapter 第一節 --- 個人資料 --- p.123 / Chapter 第二節 --- 研究對象的家庭情況 --- p.133 / 總結 --- p.140 / Chapter 第七章 --- 研究結果──知己支持、家庭支持、同儕支持、生活事件壓力與精神健康 --- p.141 / Chapter 第一節 --- 知己支持 --- p.142 / Chapter 第二節 --- 家庭支持與同儕支持 --- p.147 / Chapter 第三節 --- 生活事件壓力　 --- p.165 / Chapter 第四節 --- 精神健康 --- p.169 / 總結 --- p.184 / Chapter 第八章 --- 研究結果──個人情況，家庭情況與社會支持，生活事件壓力與精神健康的關係 --- p.186 / Chapter 第一節 --- 性別組別 --- p.187 / Chapter 第二節 --- 年齡組別 --- p.189 / Chapter 第三節 --- 年級組別 --- p.193 / Chapter 第四節 --- 學校類型組別 --- p.196 / Chapter 第五節 --- 家庭人數的組別 --- p.200 / 總結 --- p.204 / Chapter 第九章 --- 研究結果──社會支持、生活事件壓力與精神健康的相關 --- p.206 / Chapter 第一節 --- 社會支持，生活事件壓力與精神健康的相關 --- p.210 / Chapter 第二節 --- 不同情況下，社會支持，生活事件壓力與精神健康的相關 --- p.220 / Chapter 第三節 --- 社會支持、生活事件壓力對精神的獨立效應(independent effect)及互動效應(interaction effect) --- p.229 / Chapter 第四節 --- 社會支持，生活事件壓力與精神健康的多項相關 --- p.235 / 總結 --- p.238 / Chapter 第十章 --- 摘要(summary)與總結(conclusion)　　 --- p.241 / Chapter 第一節 --- 研究結果的摘要 --- p.241 / Chapter 第二節 --- 討論 --- p.251 / 總結 --- p.255 / 附錄 --- p.257 / 參考書目 --- p.269