Measuring Youth Perceptions of Being Known and Loved and Positive Youth Development: Cross-National Findings from Rwanda and El Salvador

Autor: Jonathan M. Tirrell, Elizabeth M. Dowling, Patience Kibbedi, Emmanuel Namurinda, Guillermo Iraheta, Julia Dennis, Katelyn Malvese, Roya Abbasi-Asl, Kate Williams, Jacqueline V. Lerner, Pamela Ebstyne King, Alistair T. R. Sim, Richard M. Lerner
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Childyouth care forum.
ISSN: 1053-1890
Popis: Dynamic, relational developmental systems-based models of development emphasize that developmentally-nurturant youth-adult relationships elicit in youth perceptions of being known and loved. Although such perceptions are foundations of positive youth development (PYD), such measures do not exist.We sought to create a theoretically-predicated measure of youth perceptions of being known and loved by capitalizing on data sets in two countries (Rwanda and El Salvador) wherein a multi-national study of PYD was being conducted by Compassion International (CI).With Rwanda data (Robust psychometric properties were established in both national settings. Measurement invariance was found across age, gender, urban-rural location, CI-enrollment status, and nations, and involved both mean differences and correlations among latent factors.The results provide evidence for a theory-predicated measure of youth perceptions of being known and loved and that scores for this construct covary within a nomological net specified in the Lerner and Lerner model of PYD. These findings serve international development organizations seeking theory-predicated measures for use in evaluating PYD programs in low- and middle-income countries.The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10566-022-09725-6.
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