Original scientific paper
ESTIMATION OF APPRECIATION OF CHILDREN'S RIGHTS IN THE FAMILY
Antonija Žižak
Branko Nikolić
Nivex Koller-Trbović
Abstract
This research is part of the broader scientific project named "The intervention models directed toward the prevention of behaviour disorders". It has been ongoing at the University of Zagreb, faculty of special education and rehabilitation, department of behaviour disorders 1996.
Research studies of children's rights in the family are still extremely rare. This research attempts to discover how children of different age groups and different backgrounds (primary school pupils, secondary school pupils and children who are the beneficiaries of social intervention) estimate the appreciation of children's rights in their families.It was hypothesized that older children and children with better status would have a higher appreciation of children's rights. The research sample includede 953 children, 11 to 18 years of age, of which 391 were primary school pupils, 204 secondaryschool pupils, and 358 children were beneficiaries of various social interventions. Information about appreciation of childrens' rights in the family has been obtained from the Children's Rights Questionnaire that was administered durting 1999. Tha data was processed using discriminant analysis and analysis of variance. The results show that children's perceptions of their rights depend on the child's age and the socio-economic and cultural background of the family(status). It was confirmed that appreciation of rights are best perceived by secondary school pupils nad rights for provision and protection by primary school pupils.
Keywords
Children's rights; children's rights in the family; children's rights to participate
Hrčak ID:
11829
URI
Publication date:
12.12.2001.
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