Joan Abbott-Chapman
Biographic Data
| ID | 331658 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joan Abbott-Chapman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joan |
| FAMILY NAME | Abbott-Chapman |
| SIGNATURE | ABBOTT-CHAPMAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tasmania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
School Breakfast Club Programs in Australian Primary Schools, Not Just Addressing Food Insecurity: A Qualitative Study
Background. Many Australian primary schools have established school breakfast clubs (SBCs) to address concerns about children arriving at school hungry and the subsequent impact on learning but their effectiveness is uncertain. This study aimed to identify the perceived benefits, impacts, operational practices, and challenges of running SBCs. Method. Case studies with 10 Australian primary schools from different socioeconomic and geographic areas…
Rural Belonging, Place Attachment and Youth Educational Mobility: Rural Parents’ Views
Rural belonging, place attachment and youth educational mobility: Rural parents’ views
Strong feelings of place attachment were revealed by mixed methods research conducted among parents living in rural and remote areas of Tasmania. The main aim of the small-scale study was to investigate the relationship between rural parents’ place attachment and sense of belonging and their reactions to their children’s need to move out of the area for education at the post-compulsory level. In their analysis of ‘belonging,’ as an expression of …
The national broadband network and the challenges of creating connectivity in education: The case of Tasmania
Tasmania, one of the first locations to have communities connected to the national broadband network (NBN), provided the context within which to ask significant questions about the implications of the NBN for all levels and sectors of education. This paper reports findings from a research project that developed innovative methodology to explore the issues with 21 respondents categorised as "leaders" in the field of information and communication t…
Older people's perceived health and wellbeing: The contribution of peer-run community-based organisations
Qualitative research discussed shows that older people’s peer-run community organisations can play an important role in promoting social engagement, which assists members to cope with the transitions and losses common to growing old. Findings revealed that perceptions of health and wellbeing appeared to be unrelated to living with various medical conditions. The study explored members’ reasons for joining, their experiences in the organisation an…
Intergenerational educational mobility is associated with cardiovascular disease risk behaviours in a cohort of young Australian adults: The Childhood Determinants of Adult Health (CDAH) Study
We found clear disparities in health behaviour by participant education and intergenerational educational mobility. People attaining a higher level of education than their parents appeared protected from developing an unhealthy lifestyle suggesting that population-wide improvements in education may be important for health
Adolescents’ Favourite Places: Redefining the Boundaries between Private and Public Space
This article examines favourite places of samples of adolescents living in the island state of Tasmania, Australia. Results from four separate but related studies are presented which relate the discursive geographies of youth to their leisure pursuits.Young people’s reasons for choosing places which make them feel good, and the sorts of leisure activities which they enjoy there, are examined in relation to theories of space as a cultural construc…
Social support as a factor inhibiting teenage risk-taking: Views of students, parents and professionals
A large-scale study conducted in Tasmania, Australia, of teenage risk-taking across 26 potentially harmful risk activities has examined a range of factors that encourage or inhibit risk-taking. Among these factors, the degree of social and professional support the teenage students say they would access for personal, study or health problems has been examined and correlated with the respondents’ risk-taking profiles. Findings reveal that the wider…
Gender Differences in Adolescent Risk Taking: Are They Diminishing
Research investigating patterns of intergenerational risk taking has produced evidence of increased risk taking of female adolescents compared with their mother's generation and a reduction in the traditional gap between levels of teenage male and female risk taking. The research is part of a larger, multistage project on factors affecting adolescent risk taking conducted between 1999 and 2003 in Tasmania, Australia, using quantitative and qualit…
Pre-service professionals' constructs of adolescent risk-taking and approaches to risk management
The research explored constructs of potentially harmful adolescent risk-taking of 220 university students in their final year of degree courses in education, law, medicine, nursing, psychology and social work, who anticipated they would be dealing with young people professionally. Their personal risk hierarchies, and their own experience of risk-taking when they were teenagers, were investigated as potential influences upon the normative orientat…
Adolescents' Risk Activities, Risk Hierarchies and the Influence of Religiosity
The article discusses findings from a focus group and questionnaire survey of 954 Australian (Tasmanian) Year 11 and 12 students (aged 15 to 19 years), which identifies 26 activities assessed by respondents as of varying degrees of riskiness or dangerousness. Analysis associating personal risk assessment and risk activity across the sample reveals clusters of five groups of activity and associated risk behaviours by perceived degrees of risk (in …
Youth, Leisure and Home: Space, Place and Identity
This qualitative and quantitative research investigates the leisure activities of 265 young adolescents in Tasmania, Australia, in relation to their social constructs of home and neighbourhood as private and public spaces, and in the practical contexts of their day to day lives. As these young people search for meaning and identity in a fast changing world dominated by economic and technological globalisation, the symbolic materials available to …
Home as a Private Space: Some Adolescent Constructs
This paper discusses findings from a pilot study of Tasmanian Year 7 and Year 10 (high school) students' perceptions of home as an idealized social construct and as a private space. Adolescent understandings of houses as internal or private space, as physical places in which families live and as visual or emotional ‘triggers’ for perceptual and cultural responses, are identified and explored by means of innovative research methods using photograp…
Adolescents' Risk Activities, Risk Hierarchies and the Influence of Religiosity
The article discusses findings from a focus group and questionnaire survey of 954 Australian (Tasmanian) Year 11 and 12 students (aged 15 to 19 years), which identifies 26 activities assessed by respondents as of varying degrees of riskiness or dangerousness. Analysis associating personal risk assessment and risk activity across the sample reveals clusters of five groups of activity and associated risk behaviours by perceived degrees of risk (in …
Youth, Leisure and Home: Space, Place and Identity
This qualitative and quantitative research investigates the leisure activities of 265 young adolescents in Tasmania, Australia, in relation to their social constructs of home and neighbourhood as private and public spaces, and in the practical contexts of their day to day lives. As these young people search for meaning and identity in a fast changing world dominated by economic and technological globalisation, the symbolic materials available to …
Adolescents’ Favourite Places: Redefining the Boundaries between Private and Public Space
This article examines favourite places of samples of adolescents living in the island state of Tasmania, Australia. Results from four separate but related studies are presented which relate the discursive geographies of youth to their leisure pursuits.Young people’s reasons for choosing places which make them feel good, and the sorts of leisure activities which they enjoy there, are examined in relation to theories of space as a cultural construc…
Social support as a factor inhibiting teenage risk-taking: Views of students, parents and professionals
A large-scale study conducted in Tasmania, Australia, of teenage risk-taking across 26 potentially harmful risk activities has examined a range of factors that encourage or inhibit risk-taking. Among these factors, the degree of social and professional support the teenage students say they would access for personal, study or health problems has been examined and correlated with the respondents’ risk-taking profiles. Findings reveal that the wider…
Rural belonging, place attachment and youth educational mobility: Rural parents’ views
Strong feelings of place attachment were revealed by mixed methods research conducted among parents living in rural and remote areas of Tasmania. The main aim of the small-scale study was to investigate the relationship between rural parents’ place attachment and sense of belonging and their reactions to their children’s need to move out of the area for education at the post-compulsory level. In their analysis of ‘belonging,’ as an expression of …
Gender Differences in Adolescent Risk Taking: Are They Diminishing
Research investigating patterns of intergenerational risk taking has produced evidence of increased risk taking of female adolescents compared with their mother's generation and a reduction in the traditional gap between levels of teenage male and female risk taking. The research is part of a larger, multistage project on factors affecting adolescent risk taking conducted between 1999 and 2003 in Tasmania, Australia, using quantitative and qualit…
Older people's perceived health and wellbeing: The contribution of peer-run community-based organisations
Qualitative research discussed shows that older people’s peer-run community organisations can play an important role in promoting social engagement, which assists members to cope with the transitions and losses common to growing old. Findings revealed that perceptions of health and wellbeing appeared to be unrelated to living with various medical conditions. The study explored members’ reasons for joining, their experiences in the organisation an…
Home as a Private Space: Some Adolescent Constructs
This paper discusses findings from a pilot study of Tasmanian Year 7 and Year 10 (high school) students' perceptions of home as an idealized social construct and as a private space. Adolescent understandings of houses as internal or private space, as physical places in which families live and as visual or emotional ‘triggers’ for perceptual and cultural responses, are identified and explored by means of innovative research methods using photograp…
Pre-service professionals' constructs of adolescent risk-taking and approaches to risk management
The research explored constructs of potentially harmful adolescent risk-taking of 220 university students in their final year of degree courses in education, law, medicine, nursing, psychology and social work, who anticipated they would be dealing with young people professionally. Their personal risk hierarchies, and their own experience of risk-taking when they were teenagers, were investigated as potential influences upon the normative orientat…
Home as a Private Space: Some Adolescent Constructs
This paper discusses findings from a pilot study of Tasmanian Year 7 and Year 10 (high school) students' perceptions of home as an idealized social construct and as a private space. Adolescent understandings of houses as internal or private space, as physical places in which families live and as visual or emotional ‘triggers’ for perceptual and cultural responses, are identified and explored by means of innovative research methods using photograp…
Adolescents' Risk Activities, Risk Hierarchies and the Influence of Religiosity
The article discusses findings from a focus group and questionnaire survey of 954 Australian (Tasmanian) Year 11 and 12 students (aged 15 to 19 years), which identifies 26 activities assessed by respondents as of varying degrees of riskiness or dangerousness. Analysis associating personal risk assessment and risk activity across the sample reveals clusters of five groups of activity and associated risk behaviours by perceived degrees of risk (in …
Youth, Leisure and Home: Space, Place and Identity
This qualitative and quantitative research investigates the leisure activities of 265 young adolescents in Tasmania, Australia, in relation to their social constructs of home and neighbourhood as private and public spaces, and in the practical contexts of their day to day lives. As these young people search for meaning and identity in a fast changing world dominated by economic and technological globalisation, the symbolic materials available to …
Pre-service professionals' constructs of adolescent risk-taking and approaches to risk management
The research explored constructs of potentially harmful adolescent risk-taking of 220 university students in their final year of degree courses in education, law, medicine, nursing, psychology and social work, who anticipated they would be dealing with young people professionally. Their personal risk hierarchies, and their own experience of risk-taking when they were teenagers, were investigated as potential influences upon the normative orientat…
Social support as a factor inhibiting teenage risk-taking: Views of students, parents and professionals
A large-scale study conducted in Tasmania, Australia, of teenage risk-taking across 26 potentially harmful risk activities has examined a range of factors that encourage or inhibit risk-taking. Among these factors, the degree of social and professional support the teenage students say they would access for personal, study or health problems has been examined and correlated with the respondents’ risk-taking profiles. Findings reveal that the wider…
Gender Differences in Adolescent Risk Taking: Are They Diminishing
Research investigating patterns of intergenerational risk taking has produced evidence of increased risk taking of female adolescents compared with their mother's generation and a reduction in the traditional gap between levels of teenage male and female risk taking. The research is part of a larger, multistage project on factors affecting adolescent risk taking conducted between 1999 and 2003 in Tasmania, Australia, using quantitative and qualit…
Adolescents’ Favourite Places: Redefining the Boundaries between Private and Public Space
This article examines favourite places of samples of adolescents living in the island state of Tasmania, Australia. Results from four separate but related studies are presented which relate the discursive geographies of youth to their leisure pursuits.Young people’s reasons for choosing places which make them feel good, and the sorts of leisure activities which they enjoy there, are examined in relation to theories of space as a cultural construc…
Intergenerational educational mobility is associated with cardiovascular disease risk behaviours in a cohort of young Australian adults: The Childhood Determinants of Adult Health (CDAH) Study
We found clear disparities in health behaviour by participant education and intergenerational educational mobility. People attaining a higher level of education than their parents appeared protected from developing an unhealthy lifestyle suggesting that population-wide improvements in education may be important for health
Older people's perceived health and wellbeing: The contribution of peer-run community-based organisations
Qualitative research discussed shows that older people’s peer-run community organisations can play an important role in promoting social engagement, which assists members to cope with the transitions and losses common to growing old. Findings revealed that perceptions of health and wellbeing appeared to be unrelated to living with various medical conditions. The study explored members’ reasons for joining, their experiences in the organisation an…
The national broadband network and the challenges of creating connectivity in education: The case of Tasmania
Tasmania, one of the first locations to have communities connected to the national broadband network (NBN), provided the context within which to ask significant questions about the implications of the NBN for all levels and sectors of education. This paper reports findings from a research project that developed innovative methodology to explore the issues with 21 respondents categorised as "leaders" in the field of information and communication t…
Rural Belonging, Place Attachment and Youth Educational Mobility: Rural Parents’ Views
Rural belonging, place attachment and youth educational mobility: Rural parents’ views
Strong feelings of place attachment were revealed by mixed methods research conducted among parents living in rural and remote areas of Tasmania. The main aim of the small-scale study was to investigate the relationship between rural parents’ place attachment and sense of belonging and their reactions to their children’s need to move out of the area for education at the post-compulsory level. In their analysis of ‘belonging,’ as an expression of …
School Breakfast Club Programs in Australian Primary Schools, Not Just Addressing Food Insecurity: A Qualitative Study
Background. Many Australian primary schools have established school breakfast clubs (SBCs) to address concerns about children arriving at school hungry and the subsequent impact on learning but their effectiveness is uncertain. This study aimed to identify the perceived benefits, impacts, operational practices, and challenges of running SBCs. Method. Case studies with 10 Australian primary schools from different socioeconomic and geographic areas…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Youth Development and Social Support (4 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (4 works)