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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Eichas, Kyle
• Montgomery, Marilyn J.
• Meca, Alan
• Kurtines, William M.

Titel

Empowering Marginalized Youth: A Self-Transformative Intervention for Promoting Positive Youth Development

Ist Teil von

• Child development, 2017-07, Vol.88 (4), p.1115-1124

Ort / Verlag

United States: Wiley for the Society for Research in Child Development

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This article reports the results of a positive youth development (PYD) intervention for adolescents in alternative high schools (209 African American and Hispanic American adolescents, aged 14-18; 118 females and 91 males). The intervention was guided by a self-transformative model of PYD (Eichas, Meca, Montgomery, & Kurtines, 2014). This model proposes that the actions youth take to define themselves function as active ingredients in positive development over the life course. Consistent with the self-transformative model, results provided support for direct or mediated intervention effects on the self-transformative processes of self-construction and self-discovery, life goal development, identity synthesis, and internalizing problems. The findings illustrate the utility of using a self-transformative approach to PYD in work with marginalized youth populations.