THE LIFE SKILLS ASSESSMENT SCALE: MEASURING LIFE SKILLS OF DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD

被引:16
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作者
Kennedy, Fiona
Pearson, David
Brett-Taylor, Lucy [1 ]
Talreja, Vishal [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ E London, London E15 4LZ, England
[2] Dream Dream Nongovt Org, Bengaluru, India
来源
SOCIAL BEHAVIOR AND PERSONALITY | 2014年 / 42卷 / 02期
关键词
life skills; Life Skills Assessment Scale; disadvantaged children; developing world; failure to thrive; nongovernmental organization program; HEALTH;
D O I
10.2224/sbp.2014.42.2.197
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Adversity, including malnutrition, has had irrefutable effects on child development and mental health. India, for example, has approximately 160 million children in poverty: The growth of up to 59% of rural and 48% of all children is stunted. Hundreds of thousands of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) work with these disadvantaged children to increase their life skills and ameliorate effects of adversity. Yet a simple effective measure of program impact has remained elusive. We used observational data from 1,136 disadvantaged children aged 8 to 16 years to construct a simple 5-item impact assessment scale. Although the scale was developed in India, we envisage that it could be used with disadvantaged children worldwide.
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页码:197 / 209
页数:13
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