Children's Participation in Household Tasks: Caregiver Importance and Satisfaction.

Attribution of importance and satisfaction with performance are key dimensions contributing to engagement in occupations. This study explored caregiver satisfaction with and importance attributed to the participation of their children and adolescents in household tasks. Participants included 109 caregivers of children and adolescents of both sexes, aged 6 to 14 years, from various socioeconomic levels. They were interviewed with two questions of the Children Helping Out: Responsibilities, Expectations and Supports (CHORES), with ratings of importance and satisfaction on Likert-type scales, and asked to explain their ratings. We examined the association between the two dimensions. Results showed no correlation between caregivers' ratings of satisfaction and importance (rs = .04; p = .699). The majority of caregivers evaluated their children's participation in domestic care as very important, explaining in terms of the need for children's autonomy in adulthood. Caregivers' satisfaction was attributed to children's attitudes. The expressed ideal of children's future autonomy by caregivers is not converted to current engagement in household task.

Predictive Factors of Household Task Participation in Brazilian Children and Adolescents.

Home environment is an important setting for child participation. This study investigated the participation of Brazilian children and adolescents in household self-care (SC) and family-care (FC) tasks. Interviews were conducted with 109 caregivers of children and adolescents ages 6 to 14 years residing in Belo Horizonte (Brazil). Multiple regression models revealed that a greater number of FC tasks were performed by children and adolescents (R2 = .23) from families who did not have a housekeeper and those in which the mothers did not work outside of the home; children and adolescents from this subgroup also received less assistance from the caregivers (R2 = .21) and showed greater independence in task performance (R2 = .20). On average, Brazilian children and adolescents participate in about half of the SC and 25% the FC household tasks. Factors related to family structure and child's age were associated with task performance, caregiver assistance, and child and adolescent independence in household tasks.

Experiência, performance e práticas de aprendizagem: temas para pensar o lazer de forma não fragmentada / Experience, performance and practices of learning: issues to think about the leisure of a non-fragmented

Apresenta discussão que parte de três campos de estudos nos quais os autores realizam pesquisas: Lazer, Educação e Antropologia. A partir de uma perspectiva antropológica Pós-Social apresenta reflexão sobre o conceito de cultura e sua importância para compreensão do fenômeno do Lazer. Enfoca três eixos conceituais principais que constituem um campo teórico no qual seja possível dialogar para pensar o Lazer de forma não fragmentada: os conceitos de experiência, performance e prática, a partir das concepções dos seguintes autores: Victor Turner, Richard Schechner, Walter Benjamin, Tim Ingold e Jean Lave. Entendemos significativo e oportuno acompanhar o ?desvio do olhar? proposto na antropologia de Victor Turner, ao buscar renovar as abordagens sobre o lazer.

Presents discussion that part of three camps of studies in which the authors performed studies: Leisure, Education and Anthropology. From a perspective Post-Social anthropological presents reflection on the concept of culture and its importance for understanding the phenomenon of Leisure. It focuses on three main conceptual which constitute a theoretical in which we can talk to think the Leisure not piecemeal: experience, performance and practice, from the conceptions of following authors: Victor Turner, Richard Schechner, Walter Benjamin, Tim Ingold and Jean Lave. We believe significant and timely follow the ?gaze deviation? proposed in the anthropology of Victor Turner, to renew the search for approaches to leisure.