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  • Koski, Katariina (2017)
    The purpose of this thesis was to examine with the help of one case factors which make possible the fact that the pupil ended up designing the school massacre and to threaten with it and also what factors prevented him from carrying out his intentions. The idea of the study was created by itself when I was working as a teacher in the centre of events. The case woke me to look for the answers and manuals to the difficult and demanding situation. At the same time, it led to analyse the structures of the school and my own and my values as a teacher also more deeply. Case under examination in this thesis has been teased and suffered from the loneliness during his whole comprehensive school time. The missing of the sense of belonging caused in him anguish, depression and the lack of the motivation. Because the case of the study was examined from two directions, from a teacher's position and from the case examined, I have taken as my one background theory an ecological system theory. I hope that this theory gives a frame to examine the case from wider point of view. The thesis is the case study in which I interviewed the person under examination repeatedly and furthermore, again about five years after he threated with school massacre. In addition to this, the material consists of my observations written by me when teaching him when the events happened. The analysis of the material was carried out with a Grounded Theory approach, reading narratives again and again. I mirrored my own observations to the story of interviewee building the story about them where the experience of the interviewee and my own observation as a teacher who has taught him combine. The study sharpened considerably towards the end, including theory background. The lack of sense of belonging and the loneliness interviewee felt caused him a serious depression and lack of the motivation. The indifference of the adults of the school and fact that the one did not become heard caused anger because of an unjust treatment and lack of confidence towards the adults. All this together leads to hopelessness and rage. For this kind of a young, the big and changing multi-professional expert groups can cause bigger lack of confidence than before towards the school. It would be important to be heard in the school community and feel sense of belonging there to both the teacher and the pupil. The study brought out also the how vulnerable young like this is when moving along from the comprehensive school. The study brought out also the how vulnerable young like this is when moving along from the comprehensive school. The study wakes to think about the new procedures and structures with school bullying and loneliness and for the support of the transitional stage when moving along from the comprehensive school
  • Immonen, Eetu (2024)
    Objectives: There is already strong evidence of the negative impact of the global COVID-19 virus pandemic on the well-being of young people, especially on their study and work engagement, but there are relatively few studies comparing different life situations of young people. This thesis examines whether there are differences in the study and work engagement and resilience of young people born in 2000 living in different life situations during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, in the summer of 2020. In addition, the differences in study and work engagement of young people in different life situations are examined further by controlling their resilience. The participants are divided into three different life situations: full-time students, young people preparing for entrance exams, and employed. The multidimensional effects of the coronavirus on young people's engagement and their life situations are examined using ecological systems theory. Methods: The participants of the thesis (N = 250) were young people born in 2000 living mainly in the metropolitan area of Finland. The study and work engagement of the subjects was measured with the EDA scale consisting of nine items and resilience with the BRS scale consisting of six items. Differences in motivation and resilience between groups (students n = 91; applicants = 130; employed n = 45) were examined using variance analysis and the effect of resilience on engagement was controlled using analysis of covariance. Results and conclusions: The study engagement of the student group was statistically significantly lower compared to the entrance exam applicants and the employed. There were no statistically significant differences between the groups in the resilience of the subjects. In addition, the difference in engagement between the groups remained the same when resilience was taken into account as a covariate in the analysis. The study engagement of the student group is in line with previous studies about the pandemic. The results of the thesis open up views on the connections between young people's diverse life situations and study and work engagement during the pandemic. It would be important to continue researching the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on young people's study and work engagement and broader well-being, so that in the future we would be better prepared to protect young people in similar exceptional situations.