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

ABSTRACT:

Background

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.

Objective

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).

Method

With Rwanda data (n = 1,204, M _age  = 11.84, 50% CI-supported), exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses enabled refining the measure for robustness and

SUBMITTER: Tirrell JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9764308 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature