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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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Residential youth care
Group Climate
Aggression
Current research:
- Research questions
- Research method
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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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Impression of a positive group climate
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Group climate
• Dimensions:
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Support (responsive group workers)
Growth (perspective)
Atmosphere (safety, trust)
Repression (injustice, rules)
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Group climate
• Importance of a positive group climate
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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
Oneway ANOVA with F-values for the difference in perception of the group climate,
within the various types of residential youth care
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
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3.69 (.80)
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3.48 (.89)
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.954
2.139
Growth
67
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3.51a (.97)
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5.17**
2.146
Repression
65
3.43a
(.98)
3.12 (.73)
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3.43 (.74)
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2.66†
2.141
Atmosphere
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3.46 (.88)
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3.14 (.85)
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3.51
(.83)
2.88b
(.99)
3.33
(.63)
3.52
(.90)
2.38†
2.147
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
Multilevel regression analysis with t-values of the relation between group climate
and the number of aggressive incidents
Support
Variables
Beta
Growth
t
p
Beta
t
Repression
p
Beta
t
Atmosphere
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
Direct aggression
-.26
-2.89 .01**
-.20
-2.25 .03*
.18
1.98
.05*
-.10
-1.08 .28
Indirect aggression
-.08
-.89
.36
.42
-.01
-.08
.94
-.02
-.25
Step 2 (aggression)
.38
.67
.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
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?
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