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Behavioral Competence as a Positive Youth Development Construct: A Conceptual Review
Behavioral competence is delineated in terms of four parameters: (a) Moral and Social Knowledge, (b) Social Skills, (c) Positive Characters and Positive Attributes, and (d) Behavioral Decision Process and Action Taking. Since Ma's other papers in this special issue have already discussed the mo...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3353493/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22645434 http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/2012/568272 |
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description | Behavioral competence is delineated in terms of four parameters: (a) Moral and Social Knowledge, (b) Social Skills, (c) Positive Characters and Positive Attributes, and (d) Behavioral Decision Process and Action Taking. Since Ma's other papers in this special issue have already discussed the moral and social knowledge as well as the social skills associated in detail, this paper focuses on the last two parameters. It is hypothesized that the following twelve positive characters are highly related to behavioral competence: humanity, intelligence, courage, conscience, autonomy, respect, responsibility, naturalness, loyalty, humility, assertiveness, and perseverance. Large-scale empirical future studies should be conducted to substantiate the predictive validity of the complete set of these positive characters. The whole judgment and behavioral decision process is constructed based on the information processing approach. The direction of future studies should focus more on the complex input, central control, and output subprocesses and the interactions among these sub-processes. The understanding of the formation of behavior is crucial to whole-person education and positive youth development. |
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spelling | pubmed-33534932012-05-29 Behavioral Competence as a Positive Youth Development Construct: A Conceptual Review Ma, Hing Keung ScientificWorldJournal Review Article Behavioral competence is delineated in terms of four parameters: (a) Moral and Social Knowledge, (b) Social Skills, (c) Positive Characters and Positive Attributes, and (d) Behavioral Decision Process and Action Taking. Since Ma's other papers in this special issue have already discussed the moral and social knowledge as well as the social skills associated in detail, this paper focuses on the last two parameters. It is hypothesized that the following twelve positive characters are highly related to behavioral competence: humanity, intelligence, courage, conscience, autonomy, respect, responsibility, naturalness, loyalty, humility, assertiveness, and perseverance. Large-scale empirical future studies should be conducted to substantiate the predictive validity of the complete set of these positive characters. The whole judgment and behavioral decision process is constructed based on the information processing approach. The direction of future studies should focus more on the complex input, central control, and output subprocesses and the interactions among these sub-processes. The understanding of the formation of behavior is crucial to whole-person education and positive youth development. The Scientific World Journal 2012-05-02 /pmc/articles/PMC3353493/ /pubmed/22645434 http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/2012/568272 Text en Copyright © 2012 Hing Keung Ma. 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. |
spellingShingle | Review Article Ma, Hing Keung Behavioral Competence as a Positive Youth Development Construct: A Conceptual Review |
title | Behavioral Competence as a Positive Youth Development Construct: A Conceptual Review |
title_full | Behavioral Competence as a Positive Youth Development Construct: A Conceptual Review |
title_fullStr | Behavioral Competence as a Positive Youth Development Construct: A Conceptual Review |
title_full_unstemmed | Behavioral Competence as a Positive Youth Development Construct: A Conceptual Review |
title_short | Behavioral Competence as a Positive Youth Development Construct: A Conceptual Review |
title_sort | behavioral competence as a positive youth development construct: a conceptual review |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3353493/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22645434 http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/2012/568272 |
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