Worku Berhanu Nigussie, Urgessa Dinaol, Abeshu Getachew
Department of Psychology, College of Education and Behavioral Sciences, Jimma University, Ethiopia.
Ethiop J Health Sci. 2019 May;29(3):361-368. doi: 10.4314/ejhs.v29i3.8.
Traditional research and practices focused on an investigation of risk factors to handle psychosocial problems street children faced while surviving on the street. However, more recently, attention has been given to how knowledge can be developed in the area to devise interventions that reflect the promotion of resilience as a means of achieving positive outcomes for the children. The purpose of this study was to explore the psychosocial conditions and resilience status of street children in Jimma Town.
Explanatory sequential research design was employed. Out of 246 teenager street children, 137 were selected using simple random sampling. Questionnaire, interview guide and FGD probes were used in data collection. Mean and standard deviation, multiple regression analysis and Man Whitney U T-test were used to analyze quantitative data; while discourse analysis was used to analyze qualitative data.
The result of multiple regression analysis indicated that anxiety significantly predicted resilience status, b=.623, t (109) =8.418, p<.001. Anxiety also explained a significant proportion of the variance in resilience status, R2=.388, F (112) = 70.86, p <.001. Further, the result revealed that street children had slow growing resilience status in which boys were more resilient than girls.
Street children in Jimma Town faced various psychosocial challenges and had low resilience status. Thus, Jimma Town Women and Children Affairs Office ought to work to build resilience status of street children, in collaboration with different stakeholders in and around the town.
传统研究与实践着重于调查风险因素，以应对街头儿童在街头生存时所面临的心理社会问题。然而，最近人们开始关注如何在该领域积累知识，以设计出能够体现增强复原力的干预措施，从而为儿童带来积极成果。本研究的目的是探究吉姆马镇街头儿童的心理社会状况及复原力状况。
采用解释性序列研究设计。在246名青少年街头儿童中，通过简单随机抽样选取了137名。数据收集采用问卷调查、访谈提纲和焦点小组讨论提纲。定量数据采用均值和标准差、多元回归分析以及曼-惠特尼U检验进行分析；定性数据则采用话语分析。
多元回归分析结果表明，焦虑显著预测了复原力状况，b =.623，t(109) = 8.418，p <.001。焦虑还解释了复原力状况中很大一部分变异，R2 =.388，F(112) = 70.86，p <.001。此外，结果显示街头儿童的复原力状况增长缓慢，其中男孩比女孩更具复原力。
吉姆马镇的街头儿童面临各种心理社会挑战，且复原力状况较低。因此，吉姆马镇妇女儿童事务办公室应与该镇及周边的不同利益相关者合作，努力提升街头儿童的复原力状况。
