State Key Laboratory of Vaccines for Infectious Diseases, Xiang An Biomedicine Laboratory, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Vaccinology and Molecular Diagnostics, National Innovation Platform for Industry-Education Integration in Vaccine Research, School of Public Health, Xiamen, China.
School of International Business, Xiamen University Tan Kah Kee College, Zhangzhou, China.
Acta Psychol (Amst). 2024 Apr;244:104200. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2024.104200. Epub 2024 Mar 6.
Creating a child-friendly social environment is an important component of promoting child-friendly city development. This study aims to explore the key indicators of friendly family, school and community social environments from the perspective of children's conduct problems and prosocial behaviors.
The sample included grade 3-5 students from one public elementary school in the urban areas and another public elementary school in the rural areas of a Chinese city pursuing a child-friendly philosophy. A total of 418 participants were included in this study. Data on conduct problems, prosocial behaviors and the social environment were collected. To effectively select important variables and eliminate estimation bias, this study used LASSO regression to identify key indicators predicting children's conduct problems and prosocial behavior, followed by linear regression coefficient estimation and significance testing.
Creating a friendly family environment (ensuring family members' assistance with academic problems) and school environment (reducing cheating, fighting, and unfriendly teacher language) was associated with reduced conduct problems in children. Creating a positive family atmosphere (enhancing children's trust in family members), school environment (increasing parents' awareness of school affairs, reinforcing students' prosocial behavior, increasing extracurricular activity programs, and encouraging student engagement in academics) and community environment (respecting all children in the community) was associated with improving children's prosocial behavior.
This study transforms the multidimensional, complex child-friendly social environment evaluation indicator system into concise and specific measurement indicators, which can provide theoretical and practical implications for government decision-making in child-friendly city development through empirical research.
营造儿童友好的社会环境是促进儿童友好型城市发展的重要组成部分。本研究旨在从儿童行为问题和亲社会行为的角度探讨友好家庭、学校和社区社会环境的关键指标。
该样本包括中国某市城区一所公立小学和农村一所公立小学的 3-5 年级学生，这些学校都遵循儿童友好理念。共有 418 名参与者参与了这项研究。收集了行为问题、亲社会行为和社会环境的数据。为了有效地选择重要变量和消除估计偏差，本研究使用 LASSO 回归来识别预测儿童行为问题和亲社会行为的关键指标，然后进行线性回归系数估计和显著性检验。
营造友好的家庭环境（确保家庭成员在学业问题上提供帮助）和学校环境（减少作弊、打架和不友好的教师语言）与减少儿童的行为问题有关。营造积极的家庭氛围（增强孩子对家庭成员的信任）、学校环境（增加家长对学校事务的了解、强化学生的亲社会行为、增加课外活动项目、鼓励学生参与学术活动）和社区环境（尊重社区中的所有孩子）与改善儿童的亲社会行为有关。
本研究将多维、复杂的儿童友好社会环境评价指标体系转化为简洁、具体的度量指标，通过实证研究为政府在儿童友好型城市发展中的决策提供了理论和实践意义。
