Does parents’ valuation of children’s health mimic their valuation of own health?

A single latent variable model of health status and therapeutic health care utilization is estimated for parents and own children of 6,557 US households. The equation system that identifies latent health status simultaneously determines a number of indicators of general health, including presence of morbidity symptoms, mobility limitations, medication needs, and utilization of therapeutic health care services. The main goal of the paper was to obtain an unbiased estimate of parents’ marginal substitution rate between own and child health. Results indicate that parents’ valuation of their children’s health exceeds their valuation of own health by almost twofold on average.

Consumption Patterns of Chinese Children

In the ten-year period from 1990 to 1999, children's consumption has increased dramatically in proportion to family income. In 85% of urban families, children's average consumption is equal to one third or more of the family's income. Resources are being directed to children's food and dietary supplements, toys, travel, computers and other electronic equipment, and educational resources. Children perceive that they have a significant influence on the family's financial decision-making. Problems related to children's consumption include indulgence in unnecessary or harmful purchases, and conspicuous consumption that cannot be sustained by the family's income. While some child-focused spending is viewed as enriching development, other expenditures may harm the family's economic well-being and foster an overly materialistic outlook among children.     

Valuation of childhood risk reduction: the importance of age, risk preferences, and perspective.

This article explores two problems analysts face in determining how to estimate values for children's health and safety risk reductions. The first addresses the question: Do willingness‐to‐pay estimates for health risk changes differ across children and adults and, if so, how? To answer this question, the article first examines the potential effects of age and risk preferences on willingness to pay. A summary of the literature reporting empirical evidence of differences between willingness to pay for adult health and safety risk reductions and willingness to pay for health and safety risk reductions in children is also provided. The second dimension of the problem is a more fundamental issue: Whose perspective is relevant when valuing children's health effects—society's, children's, adults‐as‐children, or parents'? Each perspective is considered, followed ultimately by the conclusion that adopting a parental perspective through an intrahousehold allocation model seems closest to meeting the needs of the estimation problem at hand. A policy example in which the choice of perspective affects the outcome of a regulatory benefit‐cost analysis rounds out the article and emphasizes the importance of perspective.     

儿童情绪表现规则知识的发展及其影响因素

情绪表现规则是情绪理论中的一个重要概念.情绪表现规则的概念最早由Ekman和Friesen在其跨文化研究中提出,从那以后,出现了许多关于情绪表现规则的研究.情绪表现规则制约着情绪表达行为的合适性,人们根据情绪表现规则调节或控制自己的情绪.儿童的情绪表现规则知识随年龄增长而发展,这种变化是认知、社会、言语和身体发展等各方面因素复杂而相互作用的结果.儿童的情绪表现规则知识受性别、人际背景、情绪类型、文化等多种因素的影响.     

Creating Stepfamilies: Integrating Children Into the Study of Union Formation

As a result of the growth in out‐of‐wedlock childbearing and union instability, adults contemplating forming a new union are often already parents. This article examines the role of children in stepfamily formation, both coresident and not, using the 2,594 respondents in the National Survey of Families and Households who were not living with a partner in 1987/1988. We consider children of the respondent and of the partner, which allows us to examine the determinants of entering a stepfamily. We found that being a coresident father dramatically increases forming a union with a woman with children. Women’s coresidential children reduce women’s odds of forming unions with men who do not have children and increase them for unions with men who do.     

Threshold decisions: how social workers prioritize referrals of child concern

This paper examines local authority social workers' decision‐making when considering referrals of children, where the concerns are on the margin of child protection procedures. In doing so, it describes the findings of a qualitative research study undertaken in the policy context of attempts to ‘refocus’ social work practice in the late 1990s and early twenty‐first century. Data collection involved interviews with social workers and parents in 23 cases. Conclusions are that referrals were evaluated on the basis of five key factors, specificity, severity, risk, parental accountability and corroboration, the use of which determined whether an initial assessment or an investigation of alleged abuse took place. The analysis builds on previous work in the child protection field, but demonstrates how the application of these factors differs between cases of child concern and cases of child protection. Policy implications concern the complexity of decision‐making in the uncertain context of limited referral information and it is proposed that the simplistic notion of a continuum of abuse is now outdated. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

儿童攻击性行为研究

攻击性行为是儿童身上一种经常发生的不良行为,本文从儿童攻击性行为的特点出发,探讨国内外关于攻击性行为发生的理论假设,并对攻击性行为与家庭、学校、同伴群体之间的关系进行了简要论述,在此基础上提出了儿童攻击性行为的矫正方法和措施.     

交融的两个世界——《乌泥湖年谱》人物谈

在《乌泥湖年谱》中，作者展现了同一时空下的两个世界：一个世界主要以紧张的政治生活为背景，表现了以丁子恒为代表的知识分子在强大政治压力下理想的失落、精神的炼狱和人格的异化，着力于心理描写，带有浓重悲剧色彩；另一个世界以轻松的日常生活为背景，表现了温情的家庭生活中家庭主妇的鲜活个性和儿童的天真、可爱，着力于动作和语言的描写，带有喜剧成分。悲和喜的交融突破了以往此类题材以政治批判、血泪控诉为主题的常见偏颇。     

儿童观的转变与20世纪中国儿童文学的三次转型

儿童观问题是儿童文学一个根本性的文化问题 ,2 0世纪中国儿童文学的发展思潮 ,集中到一点 ,就是“儿童观”问题。从五四“以孩子为本位”的儿童观 ,到 30年代“配合一切革命斗争”而形成的儿童观与儿童文学观 ,再到八九十年代尊重儿童个性的儿童观 ,它的背后是社会文化产生了变革 ,通过儿童观来影响儿童文学观和儿童文学作家的创作。     

典型儿童强迫症个案的整合主义心理治疗分析

分析一例典型儿童强迫官能症的整合主义心理疗法理念和治疗过程，及其治疗的有效性，探讨整合主义心理治疗的发展趋向和综合成因。结论：整合主义心理治疗是一种有效治疗手段，符合一般发展规律，在减轻患者强迫症状，增强社会功能方面均有较好的效果。