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Self-assessment of children living in the Dumare Camp for internally displaced persons on their well-being based on the comprehensive inventory of thriving.

Hkawng Naw

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The thesis explores how the selected children in the Dumare camp for Internally Displaced Persons in Kachin State, Myanmar assess their well-being based on the Comprehensive Inventory of Thriving for Children (CIT-Child). This approach is one of the ways where children’s voices are heard to improve the ministry services in this camp. The respondents of the study are 33 children who are between 8 and 18 years old and who have lived in the Dumare IDP camp for six years and above, five of whom participated in interviews via Zoom. The researcher employed mixed methodologies to treat the data gathered, namely, semi-structured interviews and the survey using the CIT-Child questionnaire adapted from Andolfi, Tay, Confalonieri, and Traficante (2017). The data from the interviews were integrated with the related literature and studies as well as from the statistical treatment of the survey findings. T-Test was used to establish the relationships between demographic variables and the dimensions of Child Thriving. The findings of the study revealed that there are no significant differences in the assessments of the selected children when they are grouped according to age and gender against the five dimensions of Child Thriving. The five dimensions are relationship, engagement, mastery, optimism, and subjective well-being. The qualitative responses of the selected children provided some understandings on how the children rated their agreement or disagreement with the statements for each dimension of child thriving. Some of the salient findings include: (1) Children need the support of the people around them. They have identified that God, the church, their family, their friends, the staff of the DIDP, the Non-Government Organizations, and their community are important to them. This reflected what Bronfenbrenner espoused in his Ecological Systems Theory, that is, that these systems have continuing impacts on an individual’s development (Bronfenbrenner 1999); (2) the activities that they engage in at the camp provide them with mastery and help develop their self-worth; (3) some of these children feel lonely and have some “negative feelings” and they have identified the reasons behind these felt needs. Based on the findings of the research, recommendations were identified for the parents, for the staff of the DIDP camp, and for further studies. Listening to the children who have lived in this camp has led to some specific recommendations as to how the ministries in the camp and in the homes can be improved so these children thrive in all the dimensions in their lived experiences. The following are some gaps this research study has identified for which there is still a need for further studies: a. mixed-methods evaluative study on the strengths and weaknesses of the Dumare IDP camp with parents as respondents; b. quantitative research on the knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) of the parents and staff of the Dumare IDP camp on children’s spirituality; c. holistic analysis of the activities by the Baptist Convention in Myanmar based on the dimensions of child well-being; and d. phenomenological study on the impact of COVID-19 on the well-being of the children in Dumare IDP camp

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Publish Year: 2021

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KeywordsComprehensive Inventory of Thriving for Children, Dumare Camp for Internally Displaced Person, Children's spirituality

Degree AwardedMaster of Arts in Religious Education (Holistic Child Development)

Awarding InstitutionAsia-Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary

Committee MembersErlie B. Sagud, Carmen Menchit N. Wong, Larry Bollinger, Dick Eugenio

Supervisor or ChairNativity Petallar

Peer Reviewed?No

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This collection contains the theses in fulfillment of the degree of Master of Arts in Religious Education at Asia-Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary.