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Creation of Short and Very Short Measures of the Five Cs of Positive Youth Development
Author(s) -
Geldhof G. J.,
Bowers Edmond P.,
Boyd Michelle J.,
Mueller Megan K.,
Napolitano Christopher M.,
Schmid Kristina L.,
Lerner Jacqueline V.,
Lerner Richard M.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of research on adolescence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.342
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1532-7795
pISSN - 1050-8392
DOI - 10.1111/jora.12039
Subject(s) - psychology , perspective (graphical) , scale (ratio) , positive youth development , exploratory factor analysis , developmental psychology , adolescent development , social psychology , applied psychology , psychometrics , computer science , artificial intelligence , physics , quantum mechanics
As developmental scientists seek to index the strengths of adolescents and adopt the positive youth development ( PYD ) perspective, psychometrically sound measurement tools will be needed to assess adolescents’ positive attributes. Using a series of exploratory factor analyses and CFA models, this research creates short and very short versions of the scale used to measure the Five Cs of PYD in the 4‐ H S tudy of P ositive Y outh D evelopment. We created separate forms for earlier versus later adolescence and ensured that items displayed sufficient conceptual overlap across forms to support tests of factorial invariance. We discuss implications for further scale development and advocate for the use of these convenient tools, especially in research and applications pertinent to the Five Cs model of PYD .