Results
The method adopted allowed us to observe and identify children’s agency across multiple dimensions and settings (e.g. families, schools, neighborhoods, peers) and its dynamic interconnection with the structural forces in which children’s lives are embedded, which can facilitate or inhibit this exercise of agency. The TCA led to the identification of eight factors that play a key role in providing - or reducing - children’s opportunities to exert their own agency (see Table 2) as well as a variety of ways in which children’s capacities and actions interact with these factors in order to cope with their surroundings and preserve their functioning and well-being (Figure 3).