Youth well-being and digital media

Social Well-Being at School: Development and Validation of a Scale for Primary Education Students

“…Like any attitude, attitude toward diversity is a concept that is based on three elements (Heintzelman and Diener, 2019): feelings or affections, what we like or dislike in terms of the feeling it provokes in us; beliefs and knowledge, the belief that something is good or bad according to the degree of knowledge, opinion or beliefs we have about it; and behaviours or actions, the idea that something is favourable or unfavourable for us based on the behaviour that we manifest when confronted with it. Attitude is not behaviour itself; it is a precursor (Tilleczek et al, 2019), and given its enormous complexity, it is an entity unto itself and, as mentioned above, is complex to relate to other factors analysed here.…”

Social Citizenship Aspirations: An Alternative Line of Analysis of the Social Reproduction of Youth Inequality

“…In following young people’s longing, we find what type of meaningful life they crave. Becoming has a focus on the fluidity of personal identity and orientation towards the future (Tilleczek, 2011). Becoming refers to transitions of growing up, moving on and settling in, and it denotes happenings, opportunities and constraints, choices made and chances taken, as well as paths of least resistance.…”

“…This article extends and develops the critique of the individualistic explanations of how disadvantage shapes aspirations by highlighting the need for a more relational and social approach to understanding this dynamic. Social embeddedness acknowledges young people’s connection to, and place within, multiple sets of nested communities and relationships (Tilleczek, 2011) and the ways these communities and connections constrain and nurture certain imaginations of available futures for ‘people like me’. Lastly, the concept of social citizenship aspirations is introduced, to develop a social and community-based framework for understanding the reproduction of youth inequality, which also acknowledges agency as an expression of how young people themselves create meaningful lives.…”

Young People Experiencing Multiple Mobilities: In Search of an Oasis of Youth Across Europe

“…as a form of time-taking in youth trajectories, which calls attention to the necessity to find time to enjoy youth and take distance from pressures involved in the transition to adulthood (Antonucci, 2016;Oinonen, 2018). Thus, we reflect on whether engaging in mobility may create a space for young people during education to allow both adulthood-directed transformation (becoming) but also allowing them to be young (being)both aspects being critical in conceptualising youth (Tilleczek, 2011). Freedom from pressure is therefore conjugated with preparation for adulthood, with processes 1 The programme also gives students and recent graduates the opportunity of doing an internship (Erasmus Traineeship).…”