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The relationship between the group climate and aggression within residential youth care
Jantine van den Tillaart, Chantal van Rijswijk & Sanne Kleeven
September 3rd, 2014
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Content
• Residential youth care • Group Climate • Aggression • Current research:
- Research questions- Research method
• Results• Conclusions• Recommendations• Benefits
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Residential youth care
• Spirit: Ambulatory and residential youth care, foster care • Open living groups • De Koppeling: Secure institution• Amsterbaken: Youth prison• Three central goals of child and adolescent development:
- Raising - Care- Treatment
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Video
Impression of a positive group climate
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Group climate
• Dimensions:- Support (responsive group workers)
- Growth (perspective)
- Atmosphere (safety, trust)
- Repression (injustice, rules)
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Group climate
• Importance of a positive group climate - Increase in treatment motivation
- Decrease in aggressive behaviour
- Emotional stability
- Positive treatment outcome
• Relevance- Attention for a positive group climate
- Positive group climate contributes to the effects of youth care
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Aggression
• Direct aggression• Indirect aggression
• Effects of aggressive incidents:- Negative impact on safety and atmosphere
- Decrease in treatment outcome
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Research Questions
• “Is there a difference in the perception of the group climate by youth staying in various types of residential youth care?”
•“What is the relation between the perception of group climate and the number of aggressive incidents?”
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Research method
• Participants: N = 159
• Aggressive incidents: N = 1273
• Procedure- Prison Group Climate Instrument- Incident registration and daily reports
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Statistical analysis
• Reliability: cronbach’s alpha (α)
• Oneway ANOVA
• Multilevel regression analysis • Hierarchical multiple regression analysis
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Results
Noot. † = p ≤ .1 * = p ≤ .05 ** = p ≤ .01 Verschillende superscript (a,b) duiden op significante post-hoc verschillen op p < .05, gecorrigeerd voor kans (SNK)
Dimension Open living group
Open living group
Secure institution
Secure institution
Youth prison
Youth prison
N M (SD) N M (SD) N M (SD) F df
Support 63 3.69 (.80) 40 3.48 (.89) 39 3.51 (.83)
.954 2.139
Growth 67 3.43a
(.98)41 3.51a (.97) 41 2.88b
(.99)5.17** 2.146
Repression 65 3.12 (.73) 39 3.43 (.74) 40 3.33 (.63)
2.66† 2.141
Atmosphere 68 3.46 (.88) 41 3.14 (.85) 41 3.52 (.90)
2.38† 2.147
Oneway ANOVA with F-values for the difference in perception of the group climate, within the various types of residential youth care
Note. † = p ≤ .1 * = p ≤ .05 ** = p ≤ .01 Differential superscript (a,b) indicate significant post-hoc differences p < .05, onward adjusted for risk (SNK)
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Results
Support
Growth Repression Atmosphere
Variables Beta t p Beta t p Beta t p Beta t p
Step 1 (setting)
Open living group .02 .18 .86 -.13 -1.28 .20 -.14 -1.29 .20 .14 1.32 .19
Youth Prison -.09 -.90 .37 -.34 -3.39 .00** .00 -.00 1.00 .16 1.51 .13
Step 2 (aggression)
Direct aggression -.26 -2.89 .01** -.20 -2.25 .03* .18 1.98 .05* -.10 -1.08 .28
Indirect aggression -.08 -.89 .38 .36 .42 .67 -.01 -.08 .94 -.02 -.25 .81
R = .30 R = .31 R = .25 R = .20
R2 = .09 R2 = .10 R2 = .06 R2 = .04
F(4,137) = 3.26* F(4,144) = 3.92** F(4,139) = 2.37† F(4,145) = 1.56
Multilevel regression analysis with t-values of the relation between group climate and the number of aggressive incidents
Note. † = p ≤ .1 * = p ≤ .05 ** = p ≤ .01 Atmosphere is subject to significant contextual variables, thus cannot be interpreted with a multiple regression analysis
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Conclusions
• Research question 1 : oneway ANOVA- Significant differences in growth
- Trend on repression and atmosphere
• Research question 2 : hierarchical multiple regression analysis - Significant relation between support and growth
- Trend on repression
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Recommendations
• Residential care process • Individual daily reports• Multilevel regression analysis: individual and
contextual variables
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What are the benefits?
• Assurance- Measuring results
- Implementation
- Training
• Attention for a positive group climate• Hopeful results – future research
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Thank you for your attention!
Does anyone have any questions?