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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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  110

  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.

• Community resilience and social support relationships – An analytical approach and research results based on long-term series analysis of communities affected by the red sludge disaster

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  Anna Mária Bartal

  Zoltán Kmetty

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  55

  vOne of the most serious consequences of disasters is the disruption or even the loss of social
  support relationships. Hence, this paper analyses the social support relationships in the
  framework of community resilience based on face-to-face interviews with direct (180 people)
  and indirect (180 people) victims of the red sludge disaster, using data for 2013 and 2020.
  (Hungary, Devecser district).
  The focus was analysed according to four types of social support relationship: reciprocal,
  donor to recipient and incomplete/disintegrated. At the time of the disaster, we identified a high
  level of support activity and a strong reciprocal-donor type of aid model. In contrast, in 2013, we
  found an incomplete/disintegrated - reciprocal model with low support activity, and in 2020, a
  reciprocal- incomplete/disintegrated model with medium activity.
  Based on a detailed statistical analysis of different social support types among the red
  sludge disaster’s victims the paper explores and presents the social support activities and
  their various patterns with respect to their roles in the resilience of communities. The different
  patterns of social supports relationships that emerged in each period examined varied widely,
  though – with different intensity – they were primarily influenced by the fact how people were
  affected by disaster’s damages (directly and indirectly). Nevertheless, by 2020, other factors,
  such as residence, age, and economic activity had already an equally strong impact on different
  types of social support relationships as the affectedness by the disaster of 2010. We found that
  communities responded to the red sludge disaster in 2010 and to the Covid-19 epidemic in 2020
  in a reactive way by activating their social support relationship.