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Longitudinal Impact of the Project PATHS on Adolescent Risk Behavior: What Happened after Five Years?

The present study investigated the longitudinal impact of the Project PATHS, a large-scale curriculum-based positive youth development program in Hong Kong, on the development of adolescents' risk behavior over a period of five years. Using a longitudinal randomized controlled design, eight wav...

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Autores principales: Shek, Daniel T. L., Yu, Lu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Scientific World Journal 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3353296/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22649287
http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/2012/316029
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description The present study investigated the longitudinal impact of the Project PATHS, a large-scale curriculum-based positive youth development program in Hong Kong, on the development of adolescents' risk behavior over a period of five years. Using a longitudinal randomized controlled design, eight waves of data were collected from 19 experimental schools in which students participated in the Project PATHS (N = 2,850 at Wave 8) and 24 control schools without joining the Project PATHS (N = 3,640 at Wave 8). At each wave, students responded to measures assessing their current risk behaviors, including delinquency, use of different types of drug, and their intentions of participating in risk behaviors in the future. Results demonstrated that adolescents receiving the program exhibited significantly slower increases in delinquent behaviors and substance use as compared to the control participants. During two years after the completion of the program, differences in youth risk behaviors in the two groups still existed. These results suggest that the Project PATHS has long-term effect in preventing adolescent problem behavior through promoting positive youth development.
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spelling pubmed-33532962012-05-30 Longitudinal Impact of the Project PATHS on Adolescent Risk Behavior: What Happened after Five Years? Shek, Daniel T. L. Yu, Lu ScientificWorldJournal Research Article The present study investigated the longitudinal impact of the Project PATHS, a large-scale curriculum-based positive youth development program in Hong Kong, on the development of adolescents' risk behavior over a period of five years. Using a longitudinal randomized controlled design, eight waves of data were collected from 19 experimental schools in which students participated in the Project PATHS (N = 2,850 at Wave 8) and 24 control schools without joining the Project PATHS (N = 3,640 at Wave 8). At each wave, students responded to measures assessing their current risk behaviors, including delinquency, use of different types of drug, and their intentions of participating in risk behaviors in the future. Results demonstrated that adolescents receiving the program exhibited significantly slower increases in delinquent behaviors and substance use as compared to the control participants. During two years after the completion of the program, differences in youth risk behaviors in the two groups still existed. These results suggest that the Project PATHS has long-term effect in preventing adolescent problem behavior through promoting positive youth development. The Scientific World Journal 2012-01-29 /pmc/articles/PMC3353296/ /pubmed/22649287 http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/2012/316029 Text en Copyright © 2012 D. T. L. Shek and L. Yu. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22649287
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