Persoonlikheid as voorspeller van doeltreffende portuurhulpverlening

[摘要] English: Many children experience emotional problems and seek help for these problems fromtheir friends rather than from professional people or their parents.This process, where people help their peers of the same age, social status and background,is called peer helping. The peer helping movement was developed in an attempt tostructure this informal spontaneous process in order to make the process of peers helpingtheir peers more effective. This was done by selecting peer helpers at the hand of certaincriteria and training them formally in the process of helping others.The purpose of this study was two-fold. The first objective was to determine whether theHSPQ could be used to select peer helpers and the second objective was to determinewhether the HSPQ could be used to predict the effectiveness of selected peer helpers.The study sample consisted if a group of volunteers (n = 19) from a local high school.These volunteers were subject to a selection process and were then trained as peer helpers.The results demonstrated that the HSPQ could be used to speed up the selection processand a regression equation to be used in the selection of peer helpers was developed.Effective peer helpers were shown to possess the following characteristics: they wereemotionally stable, able to handle frustrations, self-assured, ambitious and disciplined,while not being overly self-assertive or depressed.It is recommended that research into aspects of peer helping is continued in order topromote the knowledge about peer helping. In this way peer helping could be structuredand made more effective and more available to children in need of emotional help.

[发布机构] University of the Free State