Understanding South Korean Immigrant Adolescents' Experiences of Staying Home Alone
Bibliographic record
Abstract
ABSTRACT Adequate caregiver supervision is crucial for the well‐being of children and adolescents, helping to promote healthy development and to prevent injuries and emotional–behavioural problems. The transition from childhood to adolescence requires careful consideration of cultural norms. This is particularly true in Canada, a culturally diverse country where cultural norms influence supervision practices. While there has been some attention to studying the phenomenon of children home alone, little research incorporates adolescents' perspectives or focuses on immigrant families, particularly South Koreans. This study, involving interviews with South Korean immigrant caregivers ( n = 15) and adolescents ( n = 10), explores the experiences and determinants of children being home alone in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), highlighting both positive and negative consequences. Using thematic analysis, findings revealed that factors such as child's age, sex, maturity and responsibility influence the decisions for children to stay home alone. South Korean caregivers' and adolescents' views are shaped by both South Korean and Canadian cultural norms. Understanding these perspectives can help social workers and settlement and integration organisations tailor culturally appropriate interventions, promoting adequate caregiver supervision and ensuring the safety and well‐being of children and adolescents in South Korean immigrant families.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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