"We don't know how to talk": Adolescent meaning making and experiences of participating in research on violence in Romania, South Africa, and the Philippines.

Adolescents Child maltreatment Ethics Participation Violence

Journal

Child abuse & neglect
ISSN: 1873-7757
Titre abrégé: Child Abuse Negl
Pays: England
ID NLM: 7801702

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
06 Jul 2024
Historique:
received: 07 04 2024
revised: 02 06 2024
accepted: 28 06 2024
medline: 8 7 2024
pubmed: 8 7 2024
entrez: 7 7 2024
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

Current evidence on adolescent participation in violence research has primarily measured distress, harm or upset using quantitative methods. There are relatively few studies which have employed qualitative methods to understand adolescent emotional experiences, and to articulate the experiences of participation from their own perspective. This study aimed to assess adolescents' experiences of participating in research on violence in different contexts, namely Romania, South Africa, and the Philippines. A purposive sample of adolescents (N = 53, 51 % female) were recruited from rural, urban, and peri-urban areas in Romania, the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, and Metro Manila, Philippines. Semi-structured one-on-one in-depth interviews and drawings sought adolescent perspectives on their experiences of participation, including the emotions they felt, and their perceptions of research on violence. Drawing on analysis of interviews and drawings, adolescents reported a layered emotional experience, ranging from sadness, anger, apprehension, and upset, to joy, relief, and laughter. Their emotional experiences were driven by participation as a relational encounter, both with the researchers involved, as well as with other children and young people they encountered. Adolescents emphasized participation as enabling disclosure of difficult experiences, and the creation of awareness of violence. Adolescent perspectives of participation in research on violence are nuanced and encompass their lived experience as well as the fundamentally relational nature of participation. Adolescents experienced increased awareness of topics in violence and perceived research participation as enabling disclosure and possible help-seeking. Measures of participation impact developed along with adolescents, which reflect this complexity, are needed.

Sections du résumé

BACKGROUND BACKGROUND
Current evidence on adolescent participation in violence research has primarily measured distress, harm or upset using quantitative methods. There are relatively few studies which have employed qualitative methods to understand adolescent emotional experiences, and to articulate the experiences of participation from their own perspective.
OBJECTIVE OBJECTIVE
This study aimed to assess adolescents' experiences of participating in research on violence in different contexts, namely Romania, South Africa, and the Philippines.
METHODS METHODS
A purposive sample of adolescents (N = 53, 51 % female) were recruited from rural, urban, and peri-urban areas in Romania, the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, and Metro Manila, Philippines. Semi-structured one-on-one in-depth interviews and drawings sought adolescent perspectives on their experiences of participation, including the emotions they felt, and their perceptions of research on violence.
RESULTS RESULTS
Drawing on analysis of interviews and drawings, adolescents reported a layered emotional experience, ranging from sadness, anger, apprehension, and upset, to joy, relief, and laughter. Their emotional experiences were driven by participation as a relational encounter, both with the researchers involved, as well as with other children and young people they encountered. Adolescents emphasized participation as enabling disclosure of difficult experiences, and the creation of awareness of violence.
CONCLUSIONS CONCLUSIONS
Adolescent perspectives of participation in research on violence are nuanced and encompass their lived experience as well as the fundamentally relational nature of participation. Adolescents experienced increased awareness of topics in violence and perceived research participation as enabling disclosure and possible help-seeking. Measures of participation impact developed along with adolescents, which reflect this complexity, are needed.

Identifiants

DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.106931 PMID: 38972820
pubmed: 38972820
pii: S0145-2134(24)00321-1
doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.106931
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

106931

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Declaration of competing interest FM is an elected Board Member of the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect which retains the rights to the ICAST child abuse measures.

Auteurs

Lakshmi Neelakantan (L)

Population Mental Health Unit, Centre for Mental Health and Community Wellbeing, School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Australia. Electronic address: lakshmi.neelakantan@unimelb.edu.au.

Deborah Fry (D)

Childlight - Global Child Safety Institute, Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh, UK. Electronic address: debi.fry@ed.ac.uk.

Lani Florian (L)

Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh, UK. Electronic address: lani.florian@ed.ac.uk.

Doriana Silion (D)

Department of Psychology, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania.

Madalina Filip (M)

Department of Psychology, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania.

Mildred Thabeng (M)

Oxford Research South Africa, South Africa.

Kathlyn Te (K)

Department of Psychology, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines.

Jun Angelo Sunglao (JA)

Department of Psychology, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines.

Mengyao Lu (M)

Childlight - Global Child Safety Institute, Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh, UK. Electronic address: mengyao.lu@ed.ac.uk.

Catherine L Ward (CL)

Department of Psychology & Safety and Violence Initiative, University of Cape Town, South Africa. Electronic address: Catherine.Ward@uct.ac.za.

Adriana Baban (A)

Department of Psychology, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania.

Rosanne M Jocson (RM)

National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Electronic address: rosanne.jocson@nie.edu.sg.

Liane Peña Alampay (L)

Department of Psychology, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines. Electronic address: lpalampay@ateneo.edu.

Franziska Meinck (F)

School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, UK; OPTENTIA, Faculty of Health Sciences, North-West University, Vanderbijlpark, South Africa; School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Electronic address: fmeinck@ed.ac.uk.

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