A social construct is a concept created by society, such as the meanings given to certain words and gestures. (e.g. waving is a friendly welcome). Childhood is often described as a social construct becauseit is not given the same meaning across cultures and time, but is specific to each ...
Representations of childhood in rural contexts construct a perception of a homogeneous, deficit, "adult-to-be" childhood, either evil or innocent, but mainly close to John Locke's conception of the "immanent child". On the other hand, as time goes by, and particularly after the 1980s, ...
A Study on the Perceptions of Pre-service Early Childhood Teachers on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) In South Korea Recently, the importance of sustainable development has been emphasized due to issues such as climate change, war, and global economic crisis, but the unde... SK Jang...
The Fletcher Free Library was one of my favorite places, with its quiet, almost sacred atmosphere and seemingly vast number of books containing — I assumed — anything anyone would want to know and as many stories as one could ever want to read. I always made a beeline for the children’...
This paper reviews the current status of research on the phenomenology, etiology, maintenance, assessment, and treatment of childhood and adolescent social anxiety disorder (SAD). Despite being one of the most prevalent disorders of childhood and adolescence, SAD paradoxically stands as one of the le...
Of course, men are found in private spaces and women in public, but ownership is a reference to those who typically exercise day-today control of that space. It should be remembered, however, that women frequently act as proxies for men in private spaces too; in much of the world, ...
Results:Using path-analysis, we found that life satisfaction and lack of depression were predicted by dysfunctional disclosure, social support, and self-efficacy at various significance levels. Change scores of resilience were predicted by higher trauma exposure, social acknowledgment as a victim, and ...
As a result, after a mishap, children of these parents may more readily comprehend that they violated a social norm and caused harm to another person, leading them to try to repair the relationship by helping the harmed person. It is important to note that when the frequency of parental ...
Dyadic synchrony, a construct that encompasses the molar quality of the parent-childrelationship, has been associated with social competencies and behavioral problems in children. The present study examined the associations between mother-child synchrony in 77 mother-child dyads and mother-reported externa...
Finally, future studies should incorporate the consideration of the role of social media use in relation to the variables analyzed in the present study. Previous research has emphasized social comparison theory as a basis for understanding the association between social media use and body ...