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Irish Child Health Database - Peer Reviewed Papers

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Racial and ethnic differences

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• 1.   Living and coping with ongoing violence: A cross-national analysis of children's drawings using structured rating indices

  The aim of the study was to examine the drawings of children aged 8-12 yrs as a method of understanding the effects of living and coping with ongoing civic unrest

  

  Abstract:

  Analyzed the drawings of children aged 8-12 yrs as a method of understanding the effects of living and coping with ongoing civic unrest. Ss were 64 Black and 38 White South African boys and girls whose drawings were compared to those of 23 boys and girls living in West Belfast, Northern Ireland. Research took place prior to the 1st democratic election in South Africa. Measures included more...

  International Classification:

  War, violence and conflict

  Categories:

  civic unrest

  Geography:

  International

  Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, Vol: 8 Page: 31-55 2001
  Stephanie Linda Rudenberg; Patricia Jansen; Peter Fridjhon

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• 2.   Qualitative methods in the study of children's racial attitudes and identities

  This study explores children's racial attitudes and identities

  

  International Classification:

  Other - racial attitudes and identities

  Categories:

  racial attitudes and identities

  Geography:

  Northern Ireland

  Infant & Child Development, Vol: 10 Page: 219-233
  Paul Connolly

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• 3.   Social group membership and perceptions of the self in Northern Irish children

  The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between gender, ethnicity, SES, and age on self-competence and self-esteem in childhood.

  

  Abstract:

  This study examined the relationship between gender, ethnicity, SES, and age on self-competence and self-esteem in childhood. 689 8-11 yr old children completed the Harter Self-Perception Profile for Children (S. Harter, 1985) and the results were analysed using MANOVA. Substantial gender differences in self-perceptions across several domains, including global self-esteem, were evident. more...

  International Classification:

  Psychology - self-esteem

  Categories:

  self-competence; self-esteem

  Geography:

  Northern Ireland

  International Journal of Behavioral Development, Vol: 24 Page: 330-337 2000
  Orla T. Muldoon; Karen Trew

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