How the length of time spent on the streets impacts adjustment to homelessness
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11280%2F20%3A10496576" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11280/20:10496576 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=4akUIcDxuo" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=4akUIcDxuo</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.32725/kont.2020.014" target="_blank" >10.32725/kont.2020.014</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
How the length of time spent on the streets impacts adjustment to homelessness
Original language description
Background: The length of time spent on the street influences the degree of adjustment to homelessness. Over the years spent sleeping rough, homeless people gradually lose the ability to control their lives and their return to mainstream society becomes less and less likely. Goal: The aim of the study was to discover whether and how men who have been sleeping rough for more than ten years differ from those who have been homeless for four years or less. Methods: The research was based on a narrative analysis of in-depth interviews focused on the respondent's entire life story, i.e. their childhood, adolescence, and the period of adulthood preceding homelessness. The group under examination comprised 51 homeless men aged 37-54. Results: Men who have been sleeping rough for more than ten years grew up in a problematic family or in an institution and acquired only a rudimentary education. From the start they had problems at work. They tend to have high-risk personality traits and often a personality disorder. Early in life they had problems with alcohol or drugs. They are reckless - even when it comes to the law - and often commit crime. Conclusions: The length of time a person has been homeless for is an important factor in relation to social prevention. It is clear that the longer a person is homeless, the worse their chances of being reintegrated into mainstream society.
Czech name
—
Czech description
—
Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
—
OECD FORD branch
50403 - Social topics (Women´s and gender studies; Social issues; Family studies; Social work)
Result continuities
Project
—
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Kontakt
ISSN
1212-4117
e-ISSN
1804-7122
Volume of the periodical
22
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
8
Pages from-to
120-127
UT code for WoS article
000848883900008
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85106543955