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  • Kiintymyssuhteet ja niiden yhteydet kouluikäisten lasten ja nuorten elämään 
    Sneck, Antti (2019)
    Objectives. Attachment theory is a theory of social development and personality, known around the world. According to the theory, children have an innate tendency to develop a biologically based and central nervous system-regulated attachment bond to their primary caregivers in order to ensure safety, care, and survival. Early attachment experiences contribute to the way one sees oneself and others and lead to secure, insecure, or disorganized attachment styles, which affect rest of one’s life. Previous research has confirmed the universal nature of attachment, different attachment categories and styles, and early attachment’s links with future relationships and various internal and external problems. Attachment research has traditionally concentrated on early childhood and early childhood environments, whereas middle childhood, adolescence, and school context have been studied less. The objectives of the present study were to find out what kinds of links there are between attachment and the lives of school-aged children and youngsters, what kinds of attachment-related challenges teachers encounter at school, and how teachers could support their students with those attachment-related challenges. The aim is to explore attachment in the lives of school-aged children and youngsters, including at school, to gain a better understanding and to create a valuable foundation for future research. Methodology. The present study was conducted as a systematic literature review, which allowed the gathering of diverse and comprehensive, yet relevant research material, while also supporting objectivity and reproducibility aspects of the study. The material, available through electronic databases, was comprised of research articles from around the world, published in peer-reviewed international research journals. The material was analyzed thematically by research questions and topics, which were then used as a framework in the Results section. Results and conclusions. Early attachment and attachment styles were directly and indirectly linked to the lives of school-aged children and youngsters, including teacher-student relationships, peer relationships, family relationships, and academic achievement, as well as internal and external problems. Various attachment-related challenges and problems were visible at school, but teachers had many ways to buffer them. Current attachment research has not affected or changed school environments enough. Much more attention should be given to attachment within schools, teacher education, and in-service training programs in order to give students better support for their attachment-related problems and challenges.
  • 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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