Young peoples

Elderly Peoples’ Perception of Young People – A Preliminary Study

BACKGROUND Aging is becoming a more noticeable phenomenon in Poland and Europe. We analysed the perception of youth by elderly and compared attitudes of students of the University of the Third Age (SU3A) with nursing homes residents (NHR) to young people. METHODS Our questionnaire was distributed to 140 people over the age of 50 (70 SU3A and 70 NHR). RESULTS 85.0% of all respondents answere...

Young Peoples’ Entrance to the Workplace – Introduction to Occupational Health and Safety

The potential determinants of young peoples’ sense of justice: an international study

This paper uses reports from 13,000 grade 9 pupils in five countries to examine issues such as whether they were treated fairly at school, trust their teachers and adults in wider society, are willing to sacrifice teacher attention to help others, and support the cultural integration of recent immigrants. Using such reports as ‘outcomes’ in a multistage regression model, it is clear that they a...

A study of young peoples' attitudes to opportunistic Chlamydia testing in UK general practice

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to assess young people's perceptions of being offered a chlamydia screening test in United Kingdom (UK) general practice. METHODS This is qualitative study that uses focus groups and individual interviews with young adults (age 16 - 18) to assess their views. RESULTS These young adults were a difficult group to gain access to. Two focus groups, one ...

The unintended consequences of targeting: young peoples lived experiences of social and emotional learning interventions

In the past twenty years there has been a proliferation of targeted school-based social and emotional learning (SEL) interventions. However, the lived experience of young peoples’ participation is often elided, while the potential for interventions to confer unintended and even adverse effects remains under-theorised and empirically under-explored. This paper reports findings from a qualitative...