Predicting Positive Youth Development from Self-Regulation and Purpose in Early Adolescence.

A Positive Youth Development (PYD) perspective emphasizes adolescents' potential for healthy, successful development. Researchers have introduced a variety of constructs that may promote PYD. For example, Intentional Self-Regulation (ISR) enables youth to seek out and use resources in the environment; purpose can help youth navigate and overcome obstacles. We examine connections between ISR, purpose and two PYD outcomes: confidence and connection. Data come from 763 Scottish youth (ages 12-14). We estimated fixed-effects regression models predicting confidence and connection from both ISR and purpose, confirming outcomes were independently associated with one or both predictors. Our findings are especially salient to the field of youth purpose, linking purpose with specific PYD outcomes.

• Publication year

  2021

• Venue

  Journal of Research on Adolescence

• Publication date

  2021-05-06

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Education, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1111/jora.12621PMID 33957002
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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