School refusal as a representation of questioning normality: Understanding the richness of socio-cultural transitions

IF 1 3区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Culture & Psychology Pub Date : 2022-12-18 DOI:10.1177/1354067X221146487

Mami Kanzaki, Hanako Suzuki

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The effects of school refusal on one’s life depend on how the adolescent lives their life after refusing school. Previous studies have focused on meaning making for past refusal and have not adequately addressed the changes and transitions after school refusal. The current study elaborates on the richness of the transitions of adolescents who refused to go to school, based on the socio-cultural psychology of life course. By looking at school refusal from the perspective of the life course theory, we found that school refusal was a process of questioning normality. In addition, by using Yamada’s relational model of people and environments (Yamada, 1987, 2010), we found there are three patterns in the adolescents’ transitions: a) expanding their involvement in the here and now by encountering resources and then expanding reality, b) reforming relationships in the here and now by representing an other’s world and then reconstructing reality, and c) blocking their involvement in the here and now by touching resources and then escaping from reality. We discuss formation of resistance and richness of transition which would bring richness to our lives.

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拒绝上学是质疑常态的表现：理解社会文化转型的丰富性

拒绝上学对一个人生活的影响取决于青少年拒绝上学后的生活方式。先前的研究集中在对过去拒绝的意义构建上，没有充分解决拒绝上学后的变化和转变。本研究基于生活过程中的社会文化心理学，阐述了拒绝上学的青少年过渡的丰富性。从生命历程理论的角度考察拒学现象，我们发现拒学现象是一个质疑常态的过程。此外，通过使用Yamada的人与环境关系模型（Yamada，19872010），我们发现青少年的转变有三种模式：a）通过遇到资源来扩大他们对此时此地的参与，然后扩大现实，以及c）通过接触资源然后逃离现实来阻止他们参与此时此地。我们讨论了阻力的形成和过渡的丰富性，这将给我们的生活带来丰富。

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Culture & Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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期刊介绍： Culture & Psychology addresses the centrality of culture necessary for a basic understanding of the psychology of human beings: their identity, social conduct, intra- and intersubjective experiences, emotions and semiotic creativity. By drawing on diverse theoretical backgrounds, the editorial aim is to provide an international and interdisciplinary forum for scholarly investigations and discussions that will advance our basic knowledge of the self in its historical and cultural contexts. The orientation of the journal is towards formulating new conceptualizations of culture in psychology, together with theoretically relevant empirical investigations.