Adolescent Hopefulness in Tanzania: Street Youth, Former Street Youth, and School Youth

Autor/in	Nalkur, Priya G.
Titel	Adolescent Hopefulness in Tanzania: Street Youth, Former Street Youth, and School Youth
Quelle	In: Journal of Adolescent Research, 24 (2009) 6, S.668-690 (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0743-5584
DOI	10.1177/0743558409350501
Schlagwörter	Homeless People; Foreign Countries; Youth; Comparative Analysis; Psychological Patterns; Preadolescents; Context Effect; Emergency Shelters; Family Environment; Place of Residence; Environmental Influences; Males; African Languages; Sentences; Social Influences; Interaction; Tanzania + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Homeless person; Homeless persons; Obdachloser; Ausland; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Jugendalter; Pre-adolescence; Präadoleszenz; Notunterkunft; Familienmilieu; Wohnort; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss; Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Africa; Language; Languages; Afrika; Sprachen; Afrikanische Sprache; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Sozialer Einfluss; Interaktion; Tansania
Abstract	This study compares hope in street youth, former street youth, and school youth (aged 12-18) in Tanzania. Responding to Snyder's hope theory, the author argues that not only personal agency but also the stability of living context (street, shelter, home) shapes hopefulness. Employing qualitative and quantitative analyses, the author presents a framework that shows considerable differences by youth group in hope conceptualizations. Youth in unstable environments avoid hope to circumvent failure and instead attribute success to luck and other external factors, whereas youth in steadier environments rely on internal resources, seeing themselves as critical agents in engendering hopefulness. Taking youths' differing living contexts into account, the author proposes a contextual model of hope that consists of "hope instruments," "hope outcomes," and "pathways to hopefulness." (Contains 1 figure and 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10