A qualitative exploration of community-based group art initiatives and well-being for young adult carers

对基于社区的团体艺术倡议和年轻成人护理人员福祉的定性探索

• 批准号: 2872912
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Warwick
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2872912
• 关键词: qualitative; exploration; community; based; group

This research seeks to advance understanding of the social meaning and value of community-based visual arts activities for marginalised young adult carers across different socio-cultural and political contexts. It builds on current knowledge about creativity and well-being.Literature on art and well-being is underpinned by theoretical questions concerning the concept of well-being and how this relates to the nature of art and creative practice. Well-being is a broad concept reaching beyond conventional haedonic (pleasurable feeling) and eudaemonic (functioning well) definitions, to include subjective evaluations of life satisfaction. These vary across societies according to factors such as social capital and relative deprivation. Subjective well-being relates positively to creativity, where creativity is taken as the process of exploring newness. Art is an expression of creativity and a social construct whose functions include commentary, persuasion and worship. Community-based visual art operates in a societal context and its potential to improve psycho-social well-being is a growing area of research.Concurrently, there is an increasing research focus on global mental health for vulnerable young people. Many young adult carers (YACs) fall within this category. Aged between 16-24, YACs are responsible for the care of family members and account for 2-8% of young adults worldwide. Although caring may help develop resilience, positive identity and empathy, it can also hinder social capital, education and opportunities. Large-scale studies associate YACs with low subjective well-being, and many report developing mental health issues in young adulthood. There is therefore a need to safeguard the well-being of YACs, and community-based art offers a potential form of support. Among young people the psycho-social benefits of community-based art are increasingly recognised. As an economic alternative to art psychotherapy it is socially engaging, cost-effective and encourages positive developmental processes such as building skills and confidence. However, its potential to benefit the well-being of YACs has not yet been a focus of research. Related to such research is the question of methodology in arts-and-wellbeing studies. Current literature challenges the logic of using conventionally scientific methods to measure subjectively experienced constructs. Recent studies have attempted to bridge researcher-participant divides by giving participants agency to choose arts-based or other methods to explore meaning and deepen understanding. This approach, also recommended in broader research with YACs, has not yet been applied in the context of group art initiatives and well-being in YACs.The PhD aims to explore how engagement in community-based group art is perceived and experienced in terms of social meaning and value for the well-being of YACs. To deepen this understanding, a comparison will be made across two socio-culturally and politically diverse contexts in the UK and Nigeria. The UK runs various programmes for YACs, providing potential field-sites for the proposed study. Nigeria has a growing interest in arts and well-being, with links between Ibadan University and Warwick University in the area of youth mental health. The proposed project will adopt a qualitative methodology within a critical realist perspective. Conventional methods using researcher observations, interviews and focus-group discussions will be extended to include participatory and arts-based approaches with YACs, artists and facilitators involved in suitable projects, with the aim of enhancing stakeholder agency and understanding. Data will be incorporated into a framework analysis, allowing structured assessments of objectives. Digital platforms will enable communication across settings.

这项研究旨在促进对基于社区的视觉艺术活动的社会意义和价值的理解，为边缘化的年轻成年照顾者在不同的社会文化和政治背景。它建立在当前关于创造力和福祉的知识基础上。关于艺术和福祉的文献以有关福祉概念及其与艺术和创造性实践的本质如何相关的理论问题为基础。幸福是一个广泛的概念，超越了传统的haedonic（愉快的感觉）和eudaemonic（功能良好）的定义，包括生活满意度的主观评价。这些因社会资本和相对贫困等因素而异。主观幸福感与创造力呈正相关，创造力被视为探索新事物的过程。艺术是一种创造力的表达，也是一种社会建构，其功能包括评论、说服和崇拜。基于社区的视觉艺术在社会背景下运作，其改善心理社会福祉的潜力是一个日益增长的研究领域。同时，越来越多的研究关注弱势青年的全球心理健康。许多年轻的成人照顾者（YAC）属于这一类。青年志愿者年龄在16-24岁之间，负责照顾家庭成员，占全球年轻人的2-8%。虽然关怀可能有助于培养复原力、积极的认同感和同情心，但它也可能阻碍社会资本、教育和机会。大规模的研究将YAC与低主观幸福感联系起来，许多人报告在年轻的成年期出现心理健康问题。因此，有必要保障青年活动中心的福祉，而社区艺术提供了一种潜在的支持形式。在年轻人中，以社区为基础的艺术的心理社会效益越来越受到认可。作为艺术心理治疗的经济替代方案，它具有社会参与性，成本效益高，并鼓励积极的发展过程，如建立技能和信心。然而，其对青年中心福祉的益处的潜力尚未成为研究的重点。与这种研究相关的是艺术与福祉研究的方法问题。目前的文献挑战的逻辑使用传统的科学方法来衡量主观经验的建设。最近的研究试图弥合研究者与参与者之间的分歧，让参与者选择基于艺术的方法或其他方法来探索意义和加深理解。这种方法，也建议在更广泛的研究与YACs，还没有被应用在背景下的群体艺术的举措和福祉YACs.The博士旨在探讨如何在社区为基础的群体艺术的参与是感知和经验方面的社会意义和价值YACs的福祉。为了加深这种理解，将在英国和尼日利亚的两个社会文化和政治上不同的背景下进行比较。联合王国为青年活动中心举办了各种方案，为拟议的研究提供了潜在的实地考察地点。尼日利亚对艺术和福祉的兴趣越来越大，伊巴丹大学和沃里克大学在青年心理健康领域建立了联系。拟议的项目将在批判现实主义的视角下采用定性方法。传统的研究方法包括研究人员观察、访谈和焦点小组讨论，将扩大到包括参与性和以艺术为基础的方法，让青年艺术家、艺术家和促进者参与适当的项目，目的是加强利益相关者的代理和理解。数据将纳入框架分析，以便对目标进行结构化评估。数字平台将使跨环境的沟通成为可能。