This study put its purpose that makes the types of the effective factors on runaway youth's life transition to prevent youth from re-runaway and make basic research to support effective leaving from runaway life. For this, it has been analyzed 30 cas...
This study put its purpose that makes the types of the effective factors on runaway youth's life transition to prevent youth from re-runaway and make basic research to support effective leaving from runaway life. For this, it has been analyzed 30 cases that have successfully switched from runaway, and have got the result as follows.
First, it's been classified the types of the effective factors on runaway youth's life transition into four, namely Family Support Type(FST), Independence Orientation Type(IOT), Self Reflection Type(SRT) and Crisis Experience Type(CET). These terms were first suggested for this study.
Second, In the FST, family support, peer support, personal inner change, and multidimensional element including family resources were primary factors. But in this type, the non-agreed statement is about an item of crisis experience after runaway and about of social welfare resource.
In the IOT, personal inner change, future orientation, and peer support were primary factors, and specially emphasized on the use of new chance and pursuit for the new life with strong point having themselves. But family support or regret to runaway were not consented. In the SRT, primary factors were personal inner change, future orientation, and it was emphasized on the self by consenting the statement of the new discovery to one's very self, inner change. The statement that was not agreed in this type was mainly about outward danger. In the CET, outward danger was the primary factor, that youth in this type, because of inward or outward danger and pain, seemed to have decided runaway life transition. The statements of the personal inner change and the support of social welfare agency were not agreed.
Third, if we see why youth run away from home in general characteristics of them, 'escape' was the reason in FST and SRT, and was 'escape and pursuit' in IOT and CET. And youth of IOT and CET more used youth shelter than the youth of FST and CET did.
Forth, follows are about the primary concepts that identify each type. In FST, family support, family change, brother(sister) support, eco-systems, protective factors, personal change, peer support were the primary concepts. In IOT, those were use of the chance of education and obtaining job, self decision, independent life, future orientation and resilience, and in SRT, inner change, self discovery, maturity, the feeling of substance, self value, and religious support. Finally in CET, self recognition, loneliness, physical suffering, financial problem, resilience and a compromising attitude to reality were the primary concepts.
Fifth, every type was optimistic to the statements of personal inner change, discovery of self value of substance, religious support, but was negative to the statements of peer support met in youth shelter and support of the people around. Moreover, the statement of the effectiveness of community was optimistic in IOT and SRT, but was negative in FST and CET.
Practical implication of this study is as follows. We need to find out the personal need of runaway youth to intervene in runaway factors and a range of runaway transition. For this, we can consider to develop assessment tool as Q-Block. Moreover, we can intervene in runaway youth by using the strong points and protective factors of them. To do this, we can take an active hand to change in family communication and to reinforce family relationship. And we can support youth to regard themselves very valuable so that they may be motivated in self development and display resilience. Except these, we can systematically help runaway youth easily approach to community resources to be prepared to help them, and make network to well information to community resources, increase of youth drop-in center and reinforcement of outreach service.
Finally, Q-method is a method to classify the people who have took part in the study so that individuality of them can provide significant information to the result of the study. Therefore we can develop this study by subdividing types of the individuality of the objects, analyzing them and finding out how the types could be related to runaway life transition. And we also can develop the significant factors proved through this study to be more reliable factors by practical study. Macro studies to improve approachment of youth and to construct more community resources, therefore, must be continued to study.