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• On the margin of child protection: Negative life events impact on the adolescents and youth health behavior

  80-108

  Lajos Hüse

  Éva Huszti

  Péter Takács

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  107

  The paper studies how negative life events affect risk behaviour of children and young people. Calculations on the database of the ‘Hungarian youth 2012’ research suggest that negative life events are strong predictors of different types of risk behaviour like alcohol, drug abuse and suicide. According to the data people who have experienced several and more serious negative life events, more likely refuse and turn away from the norms of the adult society than those whose life proves to be less stressful. To place these results into child protection context, the study calls attention to the fact that the Hungarian child protection system does not treat each group in the fragmented society equally, although, on the basis of the incidence of threat it should. Another important message of this paper is to highlight that in addition to scientific values large-scale sociological research studies have professional and practical values as well. To support it, from the questions of the well-known Holmes-Rahe scale the authors re-developed an exploration scale (Reduced Life Events Scale). The application of the Reduced Life Event Scale (or the original Holmes-Rahe scale) allows experts to focus more on the studied issues in the process of planning services, prevention and case work. The tool might propose solutions to use the insufficient resources in a more targeted way.

• Two sides of one coin: Social network of commuter and their families

  54-71

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  34

  People around a person have important roles of the social integration and form of quality of life.
  Changes in the life circumstances like getting a job or changes of the workplaces have significant
  effect to egocentric social network. In a new workplace usually shape new relationships. Then
  again, it is also possible that besides increasing of number of new contacts, there will be those,
  which are drop out from the personal network. Paper shows the rearrange of the personal
  social network of people who works as a commuter and theirs partnerships. Commuter is a
  person who works far from his/her home and he/she goes home weekly or rarely. This topic was
  examined making interviews in 2019 (N=24). On the one hand, these interviews revealed a wide
  and confidant family and kin networks. On the other hand, it seems that, due to the workplaces
  and the common activities at the workplaces and other places (accommodation, shopping etc.), commuter can make new, long-term and confidant friendships which complete his/her family
  relationships and make their social capital stronger.

• Advantages of the home ground: The role of the social contacts in the immobile status of the rural youth

  24-54.

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  27

  The paper deals with the effects of the structure and the working of the egocentric network to the immobile status of rural youth. The research was made in 2018 among 19-25-year-old youth living in villages with not more than 2500 inhabitants. More, than a hundred (104) structured interview was made: 53 youth and 51 parents. Firstly, the study shows the network size and composition of the examined population, then the influence of the revealed functions of the egocentric network of the youth to their immobility. Based on the data the egocentric network of the youth mainly consist of strong ties: close kin and other relatives. From the weak ties the most frequent contacts belong to the education institutions as primary or grammar school, university. The local schools have a great role in the forming of the friendships. The local working place contacts, neighbours and acquaintanceships are not general actors of the egocentric networks of the youth.