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  • Lasten käsityksiä syntymäpäiväjuhlasta 
    Louko, Sanni-Karoliina (2015)
    Aims: The purpose of this research was to clarify things that matter to children at a birthday party and how the consumer culture shows in children's views of a birthday party. Birthday parties just for friends is a modern phenomenon, that began to stabilize in the end of the 1960's. Birthday parties became more substantial in hospitality, decoration, the number of guests and program. The upturn in children's position and in the standard of living, plus the growth of children's market and their becoming a consumer have affected in the change of a birthday party. The previous studies showed that birthday parties were usually celebrated with old customs until the end of 1990. The latest change in the birthday party customs is giving gifts for the quests. In addition, organizing a birthday party outside home in a commercial playground has become very popular, which will further increase the commercialism of the birthday party. Data and methods: This study is a qualitative study. The research data was collected by means of five group interviews. There were 23 children participating in total. Eight of the children were girls and the rest were boys. The data was analyzed using thematic content analysis. Results and discussion: The results showed that most of the children's birthday parties were celebrated with old customs. Gift giving, hospitality, a guided program, free play time and goody-bags were the basic elements. Birthday parties were celebrated both in and out of homes. Parties at home were more common, although children were wishing for parties in commercial playgrounds. The results showed that goodies, guests and material gifts are important to children at a birthday party. The media culture and individuality were present at the birthday parties. Taste preferences and theme decorations pointed this out. Children's gift wishes reflect the children's desire to own material things and how children's consumption has become a part of the everyday life. Particularly boys wish for expensive gifts. According to children's view they have some influence in the planning process. The results show that the parties are not as child-oriented as children would wish them to be. This is because the adults make the decisions in some subjects such as the limit of the guests and the duration of the party. Particularly informal birthday parties are very important to children. Free play time, informal eating and less supervision are the things that children wish for a birthday party.
  • Onnellisena loppuun asti : lapset kertovat hyvinvoinnista sadutetuissa saduissaan 
    Kuokkanen, Päivi (2012)
    The aim of the study The aim of this interdisciplinary and qualitative study was to investigate the themes of subjective well-being (SWB; Ojanen 2002, 2006; Diener 2006) in the stories told by 7-10 year old Finnish children. The purpose was to give these children the possibility to participate in the research and discussions of well-being in their own way. Children were presumed to tell about their concerns with the method of story crafting: they were allowed to tell spontaneously with their own words without any questions from adults (Karlsson 2005). In this study it was at first examined what adults tell about themes of subjective well-being, SWB. Then the main interest was directed at children's themes of SWB in their own stories. Happiness was supposed to be one part of SWB. How was happiness connected to SWB-themes in children's stories? Approach of this study differs from earlier childhood studies by using the principles of the new child perspective research (Karlsson and Karimäki 2012). This study is a part of the project "Children tell of their well-being - who listens?" (TelLis, project number 1134911) led by adjunct professor Liisa Karlsson. It is a part of consortium, TelLis Project 2010-2013 (Syrjälä, Estola, Karlsson and Puroila, 2010). The Academy of Finland funds the TelLis -project as part of the Research Programme on the health and welfare of children and young people (SKIDI-KIDS). Storycrafting method and analyzing methods I ordered the narrative data of 418 stories from Finnish Social Science data archive. These tales were told and collected between 1995 - 2005. The themes of SWB were collected by content, form and categorical analysis. I used dimensions of Erik Allardt's welfare theory (1974, 1975) and its results of subjective well-being for study. I also added the dimension of Belonging developed by Kiili (2006). Conclusions The major finding of the study was that of the theme motivated, uncompelled and playful action doing and feeling safety (Having). Playing, as the most important part of many kinds of actions, combined all dimensions of well-being. The enjoyable action happened in the wild. Nature was seen also as a friend. Returning home, caring and helping, being and acting together at home or near home (loving) meant well-being. Also friendship, like playing with the best friend, and partnership were themes of Loving. Belonging into peers' groups was very important for subjective well-being, and left out caused ill-being. The previous themes were connected with happiness. However, these and many other different, interesting and surprising themes of SWB were told without mentioning happiness. Satisfied main characters were able to be themselves and be loved without feeling hard demands from others (being). Satisfying basic needs was a sufficient condition to well-being. The girls told more often than boys about the theme of rest, going to bed. Material conditions (Having) enabled SWB of other dimensions.

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