Poverty Teenagers' Deprived Experience, Coping Strategies and Social Relations

• Main Authors: CHEN,WEI-YU, 陳威宇
• Other Authors: LEU,CHAO-HSIEN
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/25656556683400356712

碩士 === 東海大學 === 社會工作學系 === 104 === Deprivation is a part of poverty and it could also be the consequence of poverty. There is a strong association between poverty and deprivation. This association also embody the experiences and feelings of the poor. It is helpful to measure poverty by deprivation for us to comprehend the face of poverty. This research uses recent child deprivation indicators from foreign research as a reference and categorizes deprivation into the material aspect and the social aspect to understand the life experiences of Taiwanese teenagers in poverty. Facing the pressure and obstacles of poverty, teenagers in poverty will think about strategies and use them to get used to the situation to fulfill the needs of their family and themselves. The consequences of theses life experiences and actions above influence the social relationship of these teenagers deeply. Poverty could compress their social capital and further makes it harder to develop satisfied social relationship. They could be isolated because of the lack of friendship. This research is a secondary data analysis of quantitative research, using ｢Taiwan Database of Children and Youth in Poverty｣ third wave data of the second version self-administered questionnaire to analysis. The object of study are children from 12 to 18 years old. This research wants to answer three following questions: What kinds of deprivation experience does poverty bring to teenager? How do teenagers deal with deprivation experiences? How these deprivation experiences influence the social relationship of teenagers? The results of the study are as below: 1.The deprivation experiences of teenagers in poverty: The most common deprivation among teenagers receiving family support is monetary deprivation; the second one is food deprivation and the third is educational and living deprivation. These are possibly not seemed as necessities when the budget is limited in poor families. 2.The association between deprivation and adaptive strategies: The experiences of deprivation would encourage teenagers to act by using strategies and these strategies can help teenagers run away from deprivation. Moreover, different adaptive strategies are replaceable and teenagers might decrease the level of using one strategy because of using another one. 3.Predict social relationship: The higher the level of deprivation is, the fewer are the capitals of maintaining social relationship. It is also harder to build a deeper and richer social relationship. And adaptive strategies can bring up these capitals that help teenagers get into social relationship. The research found out that the association between deprivation experience, adaptive strategy and social relationship is not linear. It should not be simply comprehended as the action generated after teenagers experience of deprivation. The direction and action of adaptive strategy are decided after family interaction. And adaptive strategy can affect the level of deprivation and they could influence and benefit each other. In addition, in the association between adaptive strategy and social relationship, adaptive strategy could let the family get additional money to support the expense of friendship maintance. And having jobs and incomes are positive experience for teenagers. However, when teenagers spend time on jobs and house works, they will compress their school lives and possibly miss their childhood lives. The contradictory relationship among variables is not able to be analyzed in a simple and linear way. In the future, we should think about the buildup of deprivation indicators should from the society people living in, taking the culture, socio-economic level, age and gender into account. For the deprivation, think about if government policies and social welfare foundation services are able to fulfill the needs to help them to immerse into the society. Additionally, we should know that poverty triggers the diverse adaptive strategies of children and teenagers. These adaptive strategies are related to family division, gender and age. Strategies are not necessarily positive to teenagers. We should understand the reasons, development and influences behind the strategies and try hard to leave poverty with the next generation through helping to change strategies and supporting adaptive action.