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September 2024 | Barbara Mataloni, Brigitte Schels, Ona Valls Casas, and Jörg Flecker
Presentation “Increasing fit or unfulfilled aspirations? The effects of educational changes on wellbeing among school leavers from middle schools in Vienna” in the context of the 31st Annual Transition in Youth (TIY) Workshop “Youth Transitions in Vulnerable Populations: New Challenges in Uncertain Times” (4.-6.9.24, University of Warsaw, Poland)
This paper focuses on the effects that changes in educational track during secondary school level II have on young people’s subjective well-being by identifying differences according to parental educational background and parental educational aspirations. The analyses are based on waves 2 to 5 of the quantitative panel of the “Pathways to the Future ” project’.
August 2024
Presentation “Leisure-time Places in Young People’s Everyday Lives: Validity and Reliability of a New Measurement Instrument for Survey Research” in the context of the joint session by RN21 Quantitative Methods and RN28 Society and Sports at the 16th Conference of the European Sociological Association (27.-30.08.2024, University of Porto, Portugal).
This paper focuses on the validity and reliability of a new measurement instrument for survey research, which I developed as part of my dissertation project. The presented evidence shows that the instrument can be used according to its intended use, i.e. to measure the qualities of different more and less structured leisure-time contexts as perceived by young people themselves.
June 2024 | Barbara Mataloni and Christoph Reinprecht
New publication “Encouraging young people’s capability to act: the complementary role of different leisure-time contexts in their everyday life” published in the “International Journal of Adolescence and Youth”
This article foregrounds different leisure-time contexts and their relative support of young people’s capability to act. The results highlight the potential of public/urban facilities as these promote young people’s capability to act in comparable ways as organized leisure-time contexts but are less rooted in heteronomy and obligation. Importantly, the results also offer a differentiated view of less structured leisure-time contexts. Among these, friends’ homes, outdoors in nature, and to a lesser extent outdoors in the city emerged as contexts that allow young people to experience a sense of possibility.