The child diary as a research tool

Lämsä, Tiina; Rönkä, Anna; Poikonen, Pirjo-Liisa; Malinen, Kaisa

doi:10.1080/03004430.2011.646725

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“…Given that the purpose of commercials is to sell, it would be interesting to analyse not only why advertisers select particular representations of childhood and intergenerational interactions, but also how this might relate to the representation of children and childhood in other contexts such as the pedagogical, fictional, political or documentary, or to descriptions of childhood by parents, teachers or children themselves (see Lämsä et al, 2012). These representations also relate to cultural imaginaries and conceptions, such as the widely applied theoretical construct and pedagogical ideal image of the active child/learner, which, while far removed from understandings of children as dependent, is nevertheless a cultural conception rather than a reflection of reality.…”

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Generational structuring of childhood images in television commercials

Lämsä

2013

Families, Relationships and Societies

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This article examines how images of childhood are displayed in generational relations in television commercials. The data comprise 104 commercials shown on Finnish television in winter 2005 (N = 174 child performers). Generational structuring is seen as a dynamic cultural process, where the concept of 'adulthood' is described through the concept of 'childhood' and the concept of 'childhood' is defined through the concept of 'adulthood'. This notion is used to study the positions constructed for children in the audiovisual data and how these relate to other people present in the commercials. The most popular combinations in the commercials were the child as a fully independent agent in a child-centric construction, or the child as an authenticator complementing the family and adulthood. The images ranged from an obedient to a lively child, and mental activity, creativity, learning abilities and gendered stereotypes were contrasted with elements of neediness.

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Generational structuring of childhood images in television commercials

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2013

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“…As with emotion research in general, in earlier diary studies on children's emotions and daily life, adults, such as parents or daycare personnel, have often been used as informants. Lämsä, Rönkä, Poikonen and Malinen (2012), Plowman and Stevenson (2012) and Valiente, Fabes, Eisenberg and Spinrad (2004) have all used diaries to study the everyday life of children. In all these studies data related to children were, however, collected from parents and other close adults.…”

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Researching children's and adolescents' emotions from their own perspectives possesses special requirements for the data collection tools used. In this study, children's and early adolescents' emotions were investigated using a mobile diary method. The article describes and evaluates this data collection method and presents empirical results on fluctuation in the emotions of children and adolescents (n = 60, aged 7-14 years). The data, in the form of short text messages, were collected over one week. Every evening, children received seven questions on their emotions. Multilevel modeling was used to analyze the data. The results illustrate the potential of the mobile diary method with children and early adolescents. The data showed a two-factor structure, indicating that the mobile diary method was able to reveal the underlying dimensions of positive and negative emotions. The study also showed that daily variation in emotions along with systematic differences between participants in their emotional experiences (related to, e.g., the form of the family) can be captured using the method.

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“…On the basis of earlier studies on mood fluctuation (Malinen et al, 2015;Lämsä et al, 2012), we assumed that individual moment-to-moment variation in both positive and negative moods would be greater than variation between children.…”

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Daily rhythms of young children in the 24/7 economy: A comparison of children in day care and day and night care

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The study explored temporal variation in children's moods and compared children in regular day care with those in day and night care in Finland. To examine variation in children's experiences, a mobile diary was used. The participants comprised 32 young children and their parents and day care personnel. Adults evaluated children's moods three times daily over 1 week. A clear weekday-weekend rhythm was found among children in day care, who displayed more negative moods, due to frequent hurried mornings. Children in day and night care had more irregular mood rhythms. Boys were evaluated as displaying more negative moods than girls.

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The child diary as a research tool

Cited by 9 publications

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Generational structuring of childhood images in television commercials

Generational structuring of childhood images in television commercials

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Daily rhythms of young children in the 24/7 economy: A comparison of children in day care and day and night care

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