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Objectives: The aim of this research was to study the building of the everyday life of the young peoples in the age of 16–17 years studying in vocational collages and to gain understanding in challenges of everyday life present society. In addition the aim was to gain description on the base of young peoples describing everyday life of those factors which promote proceeding of studies or appear as a threat to proceeding of the studies. Today every fourth young people interrupted the vocational studies. As many as 110 000 young people under the age of 30 years is lacking vocational education which is worrying when it is known that the lack of education is one of the factors that increase of the risk exclusion. In this research the building of everyday life is reviewed as a sequence structure (Korvela, 2003). The sequence structure gives possibilities to study different phases an actions of the day of which the weekday is built by. It has been found that the familiar routines and recurrence of everyday life brings safety and anticipation and promoting the attachment in the rhythm of traditional society. Methods. The research data was gathered with the photo elicitation interviews from eleven young people under age of 16-17 studying at vocational collages at the capitol region. The data was analyzed by qualitative methods. The building of the everyday life of young people was reviewed first as theoretically as sequence structure and after that an analysis of content was made. The features of discourse analysis were also used in analyzing the being together phenomenon. The gathering review of the data was conducted by holistic thinking and the understanding of the diversity of everyday life. Results and discussion. In this research it was observed that the everyday life was relatively regular for the majority of the young people. It was observed that the everyday life was irregular for part of the young people, which was revealed as being late from lessons or going late to sleep. The obvious consequence of this was the tiredness during daytime. The days within the studying week consisted of five to six sequences. The sequence of media-time at evening was shown in the research. The problems in trying to delimit the media time was shown among the young people having irregular everyday rhythm. The lack of friends and problems of rhythming the activities of free time was shown in part of the young people. On the basis of the results it is clear that especially the young people living in period of transition need support in time management. The sequence method developed by sequence structure could be used as a tool in promoting the studies and in supporting the everyday life of young people.

Target. There are currently few tools to evaluate young adults' linguistic abilities in the Finnish language. Previous studies have shown that nonword repetition, sentence repetition and grammaticality judgment are typically weak functions in language impairment in some languages. The aim of this study was to create a tool for evaluating grammaticality judgment and pilot that tool. The assessment tool developed here is based on Poll, Betz and Miller's (2010) study on identification of clinical markers of specific language impairment (SLI) in English-speaking adults. In addition, the studies of grammatical difficulties by Finnish-speaking children with specific language impairment were also considered when developing the new tool. Methods. Six young adults with the history of SLI and six young adults with typical language development, matched as closely as possible with the SLI persons, participated in this study. Participants were 19;2-20;8 years of age. This study started with creation of the new assessment tool. Data were then collected using the assessment tool. Altogether 108 sentences were created to evaluate grammaticality judgment. Out of these 50 sentences were translated from the study of English-speaking young adults, 48 sentences were created based on the studies of Finnish-speaking children having SLI and the remaining 10 sentences were training items. Participants listened to sentences and were asked to judge their grammaticality and by indicating whether the sentence was right or wrong. Data were analyzed mainly quantitatively due to the relatively small number of participants. Results and conclusions. The participants with SLI made more errors in this test than did their peers with typical language. However, the result was not found statistically significant. Participants with SLI also used more time running the test than their counterparts. SLI participants made most of the errors in sentences, which included accusative case or tense inflection. The results are similar to the study on English-speaking young adults. Therefore, examination on a larger test group is needed in the future.

Aims. Vision of good motherhood is culturally dependent and standardized. Adolescent motherhood is not common and many times it is considered negative. Young mothers ability to cope with children and everyday life is questioned many times. The purpose of this Master's thesis is to describe adolescent mothers' views on motherhood and their daily life and to find out how peer group could be used to support their everyday life. The theoretical background is based on theory of mastery of everyday life in home economics science (Haverinen, 1996) and research of everyday life and peer groups. The main research questions are for example: what is young maternity, how do mothers define the mastery of everyday life in their own lives and how peer groups of young mothers supported the other adolescent mother and helped them in the mastery of everyday life? Methods. The data of this study were collected by interviewing nine 20-22 years old one child mothers, who were taking part of young mothers peer support group in Tyttöjen talo in Helsinki and two registered midwifes, who were working as mentor in these groups. The classification of research data were .. data-based. The data were analysed in Atlas.ti –qualitative analysis program using content analysis. Results and conclusions. Most of the mothers thought that becoming a mother at a young age separates them quite strongly from the other youth. In the peer group the mothers got many friends who were in the similar life situations. Adolescent mothers considered the group support and the social relationship very important to themselves. They felt that they could be accepted characterized by themselves too. Group activities were effective and helped mothers to keep the rhythm in their everyday life. Discussions with the other mothers, the practical advice and the work in the peer groups cause positive effects to young mothers mastery of everyday life. Peer counselors' and mothers' views on the importance of the activities for the mothers were similar. The results of this study give information on adolescent mothers everyday life and mastery of it. Findings can be used for planning activities and organizing young mothers peer groups. Peer group effectiveness can also be researched with longitudinal studies following the same families throughout the period of participation in peer group activities. When developing the activities it would be necessary to do further research on how adding more functionality to the groups and the cooperation assists the mothers mastery of everyday life.