Measuring agency as a dimension of empowerment among young adolescents globally; findings from the Global Early Adolescent Study

• Agency, a domain of empowerment, is a measurable construct amongst early adolescents age 10-14. • Three sub-scales - Voice, Freedom of Movement, and Behavioral Control and Decision-making – comprise the measurement of agency. • Differences in the Freedom of Movement sub-scale show a growing equity...

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Autores principales: Zimmerman, Linnea A., Li, Mengmeng, Moreau, Caroline, Wilopo, Siswanto, Blum, Robert
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Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6660556/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31372490
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2019.100454
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description • Agency, a domain of empowerment, is a measurable construct amongst early adolescents age 10-14. • Three sub-scales - Voice, Freedom of Movement, and Behavioral Control and Decision-making – comprise the measurement of agency. • Differences in the Freedom of Movement sub-scale show a growing equity gap between boys and girls across multiple countries. • Users of the scales must consider context when adapting the items to account for differences in culture and environment.
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spelling pubmed-66605562019-08-01 Measuring agency as a dimension of empowerment among young adolescents globally; findings from the Global Early Adolescent Study Zimmerman, Linnea A. Li, Mengmeng Moreau, Caroline Wilopo, Siswanto Blum, Robert SSM Popul Health Article • Agency, a domain of empowerment, is a measurable construct amongst early adolescents age 10-14. • Three sub-scales - Voice, Freedom of Movement, and Behavioral Control and Decision-making – comprise the measurement of agency. • Differences in the Freedom of Movement sub-scale show a growing equity gap between boys and girls across multiple countries. • Users of the scales must consider context when adapting the items to account for differences in culture and environment. Elsevier 2019-07-19 /pmc/articles/PMC6660556/ /pubmed/31372490 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2019.100454 Text en © 2019 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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