Care and Protection of Children Learning Network, Program on Forced Migration and Health, Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, 60 Haven Avenue, B2-221, New York, NY 10032, USA.
Program on Forced Migration and Health, Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, 60 Haven Avenue, B2-221, New York, NY 10032, USA.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Jun 28;19(13):7938. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19137938.
For children who work, there has been little research into the intricate relationship between their home lives and their work lives and the implications that this relationship might hold for their psychosocial development and functioning. This cross-sectional study was conducted in the Amhara region, Ethiopia, between March and April 2020 on a sample of 1311 working children with the aim, in part, of exploring ways in which various dimensions of children's psychological wellbeing are influenced by their working conditions and their family contexts. In addition to collecting data on some personal traits, family relationships, home environments, and detailed occupational characteristics, we gathered information on psychosocial wellbeing using 22 items from the Instrument for the Psychosocial Assessment of Working Children (IPAC). Exploratory factor analysis enabled us to identify five factors characterizing the dimensions of psychosocial wellbeing: work-related self-esteem, work-related stress, workplace supervision, emotional and somatic wellbeing, and self-determination. Linear regressions of these factors were then conducted on social, occupational, and environmental variables. We found that all dimensions of psychosocial wellbeing were significantly associated with the children's working conditions. Of particular interest, work-related dimensions of wellbeing, such as stress, self-esteem, and supervision, were significantly associated with the characteristics of the home and family environment. These findings illustrate that work and working conditions must be considered jointly, along with family life and home environments, as factors in both environments affect working children's socioemotional development and wellbeing. They also strengthen the call for a systemic approach to protecting children involved in child labor, in which families are central to all discussions.
对于那些工作的儿童，人们对他们的家庭生活和工作生活之间的复杂关系，以及这种关系可能对他们的社会心理发展和功能产生的影响，研究甚少。本横断面研究于 2020 年 3 月至 4 月在埃塞俄比亚阿姆哈拉地区进行，对 1311 名工作儿童进行了抽样调查，目的部分在于探讨儿童心理健康的各个方面如何受到工作条件和家庭环境的影响。除了收集一些个人特征、家庭关系、家庭环境和详细职业特征的数据外，我们还使用工作儿童心理社会评估工具（IPAC）中的 22 个项目收集了心理社会健康信息。探索性因素分析使我们能够确定五个特征心理社会健康的维度：与工作相关的自尊、与工作相关的压力、工作场所监督、情绪和躯体健康以及自我决定。然后，我们对这些因素进行了社会、职业和环境变量的线性回归分析。我们发现，心理社会健康的所有维度都与儿童的工作条件显著相关。特别值得关注的是，与工作相关的幸福感维度，如压力、自尊和监督，与家庭环境和家庭环境的特征显著相关。这些发现表明，工作和工作条件必须与家庭生活和家庭环境一起被视为影响工作儿童社会情感发展和幸福感的因素，因为这两个环境中的因素都会对工作儿童的社会情感发展和幸福感产生影响。它们还加强了呼吁采取系统方法保护涉及童工的儿童的呼吁，在这种方法中，家庭是所有讨论的核心。
