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3247697-9144000087513722254253246150-285750007706030-677166006697510-415497008751916-91436700-257175619125AEDC data analysis: Key findings from a critical analysis of the emotional maturity of young children from Northern Tasmania.

Emotional Maturity

Emotional maturity can be defined as a childs ability to regulate their emotions, cope with distress, their ability to help others and their peers, as well as their behaviours in relation to attention, hyperactivity, anxiousness, and aggressiveness (AEDC, 2021). Emotional maturity in young children is a vital aspect of development, with the ability to regulate ones emotions is a lifelong trait. However, many children across Australia have shown to be developmentally at risk or vulnerable for this domain. Northern Tasmania within Australia has shown to demonstrate a high proportion of emotionally vulnerable children in comparison to other Australian states. Therefore, it is crucial to investigate the potential indicators of vulnerability and potential mechanisms behind these indicators in order to improve the emotional maturity and well-being of youth within the Northern Tasmanian region.

00AEDC data analysis: Key findings from a critical analysis of the emotional maturity of young children from Northern Tasmania.

Emotional Maturity

Emotional maturity can be defined as a childs ability to regulate their emotions, cope with distress, their ability to help others and their peers, as well as their behaviours in relation to attention, hyperactivity, anxiousness, and aggressiveness (AEDC, 2021). Emotional maturity in young children is a vital aspect of development, with the ability to regulate ones emotions is a lifelong trait. However, many children across Australia have shown to be developmentally at risk or vulnerable for this domain. Northern Tasmania within Australia has shown to demonstrate a high proportion of emotionally vulnerable children in comparison to other Australian states. Therefore, it is crucial to investigate the potential indicators of vulnerability and potential mechanisms behind these indicators in order to improve the emotional maturity and well-being of youth within the Northern Tasmanian region.

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-9525028003500The big picture

-994564775835008639175328993500581977585915500This figure denotes the percentage statistics for the 'on track', 'at risk' and 'vulnerable' categories for measurements related to the emotional maturity domain, which includes children who were in their first year of school, according to AEDC data, in 2021. This graph also shows the percentage statistics for the three categories mentioned, for children entering their first year of school by their residential area, including the national average for Australia, and the state of Tasmania. In Northern Tasmania, the residential areas include the city of Launceston, the council of Meander Valley, the council of Northern Midlands, the council of West Tamar, the council of Dorset, George Town and finally, the council of Break O'Day. The graphs statistics display that for the Australian average, the percentage of children in the On track category for the emotional maturity domain of the AEDCs data was 77%, children in the At risk category was 14.5% and children in the Vulnerable category was 8.5%. The state of Tasmanias percentages for the three categories in order of On track, At risk and Vulnerable, was 73.9%, 15.8% and 10.3%, respectively. The city of Launcestons averages for the three categories in the same order was 73.4%, 15.9% and 10.7%. The Meander Valley councils percentages were 75.5%, 17.8% and 6.7%, respectively, in the same order. The Northern Midlands council percentages were 70.5%, 21.2% and 8.3%, respectively. For the West Tamar council region, the percentages were 79.2%, 12.1% and 8.7%. For the Dorset council region the percentages were 72.9%, 18.6% and 8.5%. George Towns percentages were 76.1%, 11.3% and 12.7%. Lastly, the Break ODay council regions percentages were 53.7% on track, 29.6% at risk and 16.7% vulnerable. Making this region the biggest outlier in Northern Tasmania in terms of emotional maturity, according to the AEDC data. This region is shown to have the largest percentage of children in both the At risk and Vulnerable categories for emotional maturity.

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Vulnerable locations

2612657877690029688312462497003206338254562400After careful analysation of the AEDC data pertaining to the Northern Tasmanian region and plot creation, we identified the four most vulnerable local council areas within the region, namely: West Tamar, George Town, Launceston, and Break Oday. As can be seen in Figure 2, Break Oday was discovered to be the location having the highest percentage of vulnerable children, followed by George Town, Launceston, and West Tamar. As a result, our team endeavoured to explore the potential indicators that contribute to vulnerability in these geographical areas, and potential mechanisms behind this causation.

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Unemployment

313496688442008998260402678600-4281153296140078209855244642008285569495765200Unemployment is an important indicator of an area's economic success. A low rate can demonstrate a well-off region with a high pace of admittance to occupations, or where the individuals who cannot secure positions leave the region. Increasing of unemployment rate may be declining economy, or an area with a significantly disadvantaged population. When considering by individuals that might be led to vulnerable factor of emotional maturity. In relation to unemployment, there are people looking for full-time or part-time work with little success, parents unable to work due to disability, physical and mentally illness. The population aged fifteen and over according to the labour force participation rate that was looking for work or employed.

The labour force is a primary contributor to domestic production, its structure and size play a key role in economic progress. Earnings from a paid job have a significant influence on a person's economic well-being, especially from the perspective of emotional development. This many categories line chart displays the rate of unemployment and vulnerable children which is areas of Northern Tasmania Region. Break Oday vulnerability rates were highest among the areas. According to Primary health Tasmania data, A comparable number of adults in the Break ODay are probably going to encounter high or extremely elevated degrees of psychological distress with respect to Tasmania. More people percentage are unemployed in Break Oday and West Tamar compared to Meander Valley, also more percentage of vulnerable children in Break Oday and Meander Valley compared to Northern Midlands. This line graph predicts, however, that unemployment may affect children's vulnerability to emotional maturity, as the vulnerability percentage is far higher than the unemployment percentage in the northern Tasmanian council areas.

5394429-86405006546850-21919300-1244009-164804700-804117-45325700-635635-22548400-3194051016000Potential Indicators of vulnerability

Completion of Year 12,

Single parent under the age of 25

and different residential address within 12 months.

-6096004186555008615813387125500-40322584806400Whilst collecting the data for emotional maturity in Northern Tasmania, the AEDC also collected data that may have had potential influences on the results of those whose emotional maturity was on track, at risk, and vulnerable. These indicators where categorised as; attending a pre-school program, people who completed year 12, people who had a different address within a year, those who had single parents under 25, SEIFA score and those who were unemployed. The graph above looks at the following: completed year 12, different address one year ago and single parents under 25. It is important to note that we cannot say that these indicators are a direct correlation or causation to the emotional maturity of those in Northern Tasmania but allows us to open the question of if these factors could have contributed to the emotional maturity development or lack thereof, in one way or another. As displayed on the graph above single parents under 25 did not surpass 0.9% in the top 4 most vulnerable geographical locations. This may indicate that having single parents under 25 did not contribute greatly to the results of emotional maturity of young people in Northern Tasmania, with Break ODay, the location with the highest percentage of vulnerable and at risk, had a result of 0 in this indicator. Having a different address 1 year ago was another lower scoring indicator with the highest percentage, 16 % and referring to Break ODay again, 13.1% therefore again it could be understood that having a different address within 1 year may not have any direct effects on the development of a persons emotional maturity. In comparison, when we look at percentages of those who completed year 12, these values are much higher, 33.1% recorded for Break ODay generally speaking a low percentage for completing year 12) may have been an indicator in the results of emotional vulnerability and at risk as locations with greater on track have a greater percentage of students who completed year 12 though in comparison to George Town they shared a similar result with Break ODay in this indicator but have a higher percentage of on track students for emotional maturity. Therefore, we cannot definitely suggest that the completion or incompletion of year 12 is a direct indicator of someones emotional maturity status.