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Purpose:  The payment which is made by the consumers using the online medium using credit or debit card or Mobile applications is called digital payments. The Digital payment adoption in Sri Lanka is seems comparatively low. This study explores the factors affecting the adoption of digital payments.   Theoretical framework: By using the theories such as Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) and Perceived Risk theory the study is carried out to find out the factors influencing the adoption of Digital payment in Sri Lanka.   Design/Methodology/Approach:  Survey Data is used to test the hypothesis and the model was tested with the data.   Findings: The study results reveals that the Sri Lankan youths’ Social Influence has no relationship with the adoption of Digital payment. At the same time the Perceived risk, effort expectancy and performance expectancy are shown considerable impact on the adoption of Digital payments.   Research, Practical & Social implications: The study results will support the decision makers and the policy makers to understand the consumer’s stand and it will give an idea for the organizations for the implementation of digital money concepts in their business entities. Also, the consumers can be educated and encouraged with the facts revealed in this study.   Originality/Value: This study full fills the knowledge gap about the of Digital currency adoption in Sri Lanka. These results will support the business entities to understand the issues of adopting Digital Currency in Sri Lanka among youths.

Background and Objectives: The Internet is widely used and disseminated amongst youngsters and many web-based applications may serve to improve mental health care access, particularly in remote and distant sites or in settings where there is a shortage of mental health practitioners. However, in recent years, specific digital psychiatry interventions have been developed and implemented for special populations such as children and adolescents. Materials and Methods: Hereby, we describe the current state-of-the-art in the field of TMH application for young mental health, focusing on recent studies concerning anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder and affective disorders. Results: After screening and selection process, a total of 56 studies focusing on TMH applied to youth depression (n = 29), to only youth anxiety (n = 12) or mixed youth anxiety/depression (n = 7) and youth OCD (n = 8) were selected and retrieved. Conclusions: Telemental Health (TMH; i.e., the use of telecommunications and information technology to provide access to mental health assessment, diagnosis, intervention, consultation, supervision across distance) may offer an effective and efficacious tool to overcome many of the barriers encountering in the delivery of young mental health care.

This study investigated the effectiveness of daily living skills intervention training for children with autism in a virtual campus setting. First, six children with autism (age M = 10.50, SD = 2.22) participated in a 4-week experiment totaling 8.4 h. The effectiveness of the virtual school environment and the daily living skills intervention were used as indicators during data collection and processing. In addition, a series of 3D environments based on daily life were constructed using SketchUp Pro 2021, which were converted to virtual environments using Unreal Engine 4. The HTC Vive external headset facilitated intervention training for children with autism. Most importantly, the results demonstrated the effectiveness of interactive domains such as grabbing bread in a cafeteria environment, making a phone call in front of a school, and switching lights and picking up a book in a library environment, where participants showed significantly higher levels of performance ( p  < 0.05). Scores on the Social Communication Questionnaire (SCQ) for children with autism (M = 19.33, SD = 4.18) were lower than baseline values (M = 22.83, SD = 4.79), while scores on the Social Skills Questionnaire (SSQ) (M = 26.17, SD = 3.97) were higher than baseline values (M = 20.00, SD = 2.28), suggesting that the overall social effectiveness of the participants following the intervention improved ( p  < 0.05). In conclusion, the statistical analysis showed that participants who received the intervention had significantly improved daily living skills such as grabbing bread, making phone calls, changing lights, and picking up books.

Randol Contreras came of age in the South Bronx during the 1980s, a time when the community was devastated by cuts in social services, a rise in arson and abandonment, and the rise of crack-cocaine. For this riveting book, he returns to the South Bronx with a sociological eye and provides an unprecedented insider's look at the workings of a group of Dominican drug robbers. Known on the streets as \"Stickup Kids,\" these men raided and brutally tortured drug dealers storing large amounts of heroin, cocaine, marijuana, and cash. As a participant observer, Randol Contreras offers both a personal and theoretical account for the rise of the Stickup Kids and their violence. He mainly focuses on the lives of neighborhood friends, who went from being crack dealers to drug robbers once their lucrative crack market opportunities disappeared. The result is a stunning, vivid, on-the-ground ethnographic description of a drug robbery's violence, the drug market high life, the criminal life course, and the eventual pain and suffering experienced by the casualties of the Crack Era. Provocative and eye-opening, The Stickup Kids urges us to explore the ravages of the drug trade through weaving history, biography, social structure, and drug market forces. It offers a revelatory explanation for drug market violence by masterfully uncovering the hidden social forces that produce violent and self-destructive individuals. Part memoir, part penetrating analysis, this book is engaging, personal, deeply informed, and entirely absorbing.

Growing Up Communist in the Netherlands and Britain: Childhood, Political Activism, and Identity Formation documents communists' attempts, successful and otherwise, to overcome their isolation and to connect with the major social and political movements of the twentieth century. Communist parties in Britain and the Netherlands emerged from the Second World War expecting to play a significant role in post-war society, due to their domestic anti-fascist activities and to the part played by the Soviet Union in defeating fascism. The Cold War shattered these hopes, and isolated communist parties and their members. By analysing the accounts of communist children, Weesjes highlights their struggle to establish communities and define their identities within the specific cultural, social, and political frameworks of their countries.

Youth language data provides interesting perspectives on gender dynamics and gendered usage in society. However, the gender perspective has notreceived the deserved focus in youth language studies in Africa.This is partly due to the general perception that youth languages and classic youth language practices, such as slangand anti-language, are male-oriented. This collected volume focuses on gender dynamics and gendered usage in African youthlanguages and youth language practices, against the backdrop of urbanity as well as rurality. With representations from different parts of Africa, the volume examines sundry youth usage in different contexts and domains. While avoiding strict binarizations and potentially flawed dichotomies, the contributing scholars observe some of the motivationsfor different gender performatives and how these manifest in a variety of language forms and through predominated categories of use. Data samples were obtained through sociolinguistic and anthropological instruments, ranging from questionnaires and structured interviews to street-based observations and corpus analyses. On the whole, the volume engages the literature and debate on language, youth, and especially on gendering dynamics in African youth language practices.

This up to date text is suitable for students on all early years courses that include a module on global childhoods. Taking an ecological approach, it examines how culture and society shape childhoods through considering the lived experiences of children internationally. It begins by questioning the meaning of childhood and explores the historical, cultural and social views of childhood and children, including the roles of race, class and gender. It considers families and parenting from a global perspective and progresses to examine the relationship between the state and children by evaluating international approaches to education, health and welfare and the ways inequalities between the minority and majority world impact on children. The role of research on and with children in informing these debates is fully explored. Most importantly the reader is challenged to reflect on how global perspectives can be used to support an understanding of inclusion and diversity in their practice.

Andean communities occupy a special place in the history of anthropology, having given shape to fundamental theories of kinship, peasant economics, Indigenous medical systems, ritual life and others. Yet children have been shortchanged in research and theory building. Care and Agency , based on detailed ethnographies of six towns in the province of Yauyos, restores children to a central research position. Contemporary children’s studies emphasize children’s agency and autonomy, and these take surprising forms under the conditions of the rural Andes. At the same time, the book incorporates and extends current discussions of caregiving and its organization in human societies. Children in the Andes are involved in the care of each other, of adults, of animals, of the environment. The activities, sociality, and subjective states of children of different ages, genders, and social strata are variable in ways that make it impossible to speak of a single Andean childhood. The future they face is also uncertain, as the Peruvian nation stumbles through cycles of incompetent government whose common thread is the neglect of small-scale family farming and the welfare of rural populations. This book is a fascinating look at Andean childhood for anyone interested in the lives of children.   

Basic psychological needs theory (Deci & Ryan, 2000) is an interesting approach to understand the dynamics of romantic relations. Having valid and reliable instruments will allow assessment of the romantic relationship from this perspective. The aim of this study is to present the development of a Spanish version of the Partner Behaviours as Social Context (PBSC, Ducat & Zimmer-Gembeck, 2010) scale. Through two studies, the factor structure originally proposed is analysed, determining scale reliability and validity. The results confirm the six-dimension structure, although with some differences. It can be concluded that the proposed scale is an especially interesting instrument for the study of relationships in Spanish-speaking youth. KEY WORDS: psychological needs, PBSC, Spanish validation, adolescents, youngsters, romantic relationships. La teoria de las necesidades psicologicas basicas (Deci y Ryan, 2000) ofrece un interesante enfoque para comprender la dinamica de las relaciones de pareja. Contar con instrumentos validos y fiables permitira la evaluacion de las relaciones de pareja desde esta perspectiva. En este articulo, se presenta el desarrollo de la version en espanol del autoinforme \"Comportamientos de la pareja como contexto social\" (Partner Behaviours as Social Context, PBSC, Ducat y Zimmer-Gembeck, 2010). A traves de dos estudios, se analiza la estructura factorial original, determinando la fiabilidad y validez de la escala. Los resultados confirman la estructura factorial, aunque con ligeras diferencias. Las dimensiones obtenidas muestran buena fiabilidad y validez, por lo que se puede concluir que la adaptacion espanola de la PBSC es un instrumento especialmente interesante para el estudio de las relaciones en jovenes hispanohablantes. PALABRAS CLAVE: necesidades psicologicas, PBSC, validacion, adolescentes, jovenes, pareja.

\"Childhood has never been available to all.\" In her opening chapter ofFor the Children?, Erica R. Meiners stakes the claim that childhood is a racial category often unavailable to communities of color. According to Meiners, this is glaringly evident in the U.S. criminal justice system, where the differentiation between child and adult often equates to access to stark disparities. And what is constructed as child protection often does not benefit many young people or their communities. Placing the child at the heart of the targeted criminalization debate,For the Children?considers how perceptions of innocence, the safe child, and the future operate in service of the prison industrial complex. The United States has the largest prison population in the world, with incarceration and policing being key economic tools to maintain white supremacist ideologies. Meiners examines the school-to-prison pipeline and the broader prison industrial complex in the United States, arguing that unpackingchild protectionis vital to reducing the nation's reliance on its criminal justice system as well as building authentic modes of public safety. Rethinking the meanings and beliefs attached to the child represent a significant and intimate thread of the work to dismantle facets of the U.S. carceral state. Taking an interdisciplinary approach and building from a scholarly and activist platform,For the Children?engages fresh questions in the struggle to build sustainable and flourishing worlds without prisons.