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Youth Monitor Flanders (JOP-monitor)
Nicole Vettenburg
UGent, Youth Research Platform
Belgium
– Indicators of Child and Youth Well-being –
13 – 15 dec. 2009, Amsterdam
Youth Research Platform (JOP)
An interdisciplinary cooperation between three research groups from different universities in Flanders
- Tempus Omnia Revelat (VUB) (sociology)- Department of Social Welfare Studies (Ghent
University) (educational sciences) - Research Group of Youth Criminology
(K.U.Leuven) (criminology)
Part of the Policy Research Centre of Culture, Youth and Sports
- started in 2003: Youth Research Platform => Flemish Minister of Home affairs, Culture, Youth
and the Civil service
- Since 2007: Youth Research Platform as ‘the Youth Policy Research line’ of the Policy Research Centre of Culture, Youth and Sports => Flemish Minister of Economy, Science and Innovation
Objectives
1. To make an inventory of youth research
2. To set up a youth monitor
3. International dimension
Inventory of youth research
1. to collect existing Flemish Youth research (since 2000)
2. Pdf-file of each study with: abstract, summary of the methodology, an overview of the results, etc.
Online www.jeugdonderzoeksplatform.be Publication ‘Jongeren van nu en straks’ (2006)
Youth monitor
JOP-monitor 1 (2005-2006)
- Postal survey – light version- N=2503 – respons = 48% bij 18-25j; 59% bij 14-
18-jarigen- Content questionnaire: several themes into 3C’s
(see further) - conditions - convictions - conduct
=> Publication: ‘Jongeren in cijfers en letters’ (2007) (abstract in English: www;jeugdonderzoeksplatform.be)
Secondary analyses on existing databases publication ‘Young people insite out (2009) (‘Jongeren binnenstebuiten’)
Themes:- Democratic citizenship and gender differences - Significant others and well-being- Well-being at school- Feelings of insecurity and young people- Young people and Internet - Democratic citizenship and education types- Youth in transition
=> Abstract (english): www.jeugdonderzoeksplatform.be
JOP-monitor 2 (2008)
• Fieldwork JOP-monitor 2 (12-30y)• Postal survey (N= 3710) • 4 memory letters
• Questionnaire: – 2 versions: 12-13y and 14-30y.
– Content: 3C’s
Content of the monitor
• Three C’s, nl. ‘Conditions’, ‘Convictions’ and ‘Conduct’. • Conditons: the objective component. It covers the
conditions in which two other aspects evolves. – Topics: social background, education, possession of media
equipment, etc.• Convictions: the social world of young people, their
subjective perception and experience of their life-conditions and environment – Topics: school wellbeing, self-esteem, perception of relation with
parents, media preferences, political preference, etc. • Conduct: covers young people’s conduct and assesses
reported behavior – Topics: political action, criminal behavior, media use, etc.
• Questionnaire: – Closed questions. – Using scales, based on a five point-Likert scale ( have
been used in previous studies)
• Examples:– Conviction
• School wellbeing• Self-esteem• Political interest• Fear of crime• Negative picture of the future
– Conduct• Leisure• Political action
• Self-esteem:– Brutsaert (1986) developed the self-esteem scale
based on the Rosenberg self-esteem scale (1965) and the Revised Janis Field scale (Eagly, 1967).
• I am proud on who I am
• I think I am pretty ok
• I think I have some good qualities
• All in all, I feel like I am a looser
• Negative picture of the future– The scale of the negative picture of the future is
based previous research of Elchardus, Enhus et al (1984) and Winnubst (1975).
• I often see the future very cheerles
• It seems that I don’t have any goal in my life
• The future appears to me in hopeless sense
• I am sure I have a bright future in front of me
• I am excited for the future
• Political interest:– The political interest-scale is designed to measure young
people’s social participation (Smits, 2004). This scale is constructed because more traditional scales give a small internal consistency for political cynicism (Elchardus, 1999).
• I know more of politics comparing most people of my age.
• I am not interested in politics
• I have barely a clue of most political topics
• I have mostly an opinion when talking about political topics or problems.
• Political action– This is based on the German Youth monitor (Deutsches
Jugendinstitut, 1997), research on moral consuming of young people (Stolle, Hooghe & Micheletti, 2005) and a study organized by Freie Universität Berlin (2004) on political action on the internet.
During the last year did you…• Financed a good goal• Signed a (internet) petition • Bought a product because it is made in an environmental or
animal friendly manner or because it is guaranteed it is made in good labor circumstances
• Maintain compulsering voting• Talked about politics with friends, family, colleagues,… • Boycotted a product because you have problems with that
particular company, country, or the way the product is being fabricated
Reflections
• Definition of well-being: – Well-being convers various domains => results in
different findings
• Further analyses to explore the descibed results in greater depth: f.e– small group who are not doing well on all the domains– Interaction affect: f.e. the less safe pupils in vocational
and technical school feel themselves, the better they feel at school (in general education we find the inverse correlation (see figure)
• Relation school well-being & feelings of unsafety: interaction-effect by type of education (secundary schools)
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