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Positive Youth Development and Wellbeing: Gender Differences
The five C’s of positive youth development (PYD) (competence, confidence, character, caring, and connection) have been associated with adaptive development among young people. Gender differences in young people’s wellbeing and mental health have been studied and analyzed, but the investigation into...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8329348/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34354625 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.641647 |
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author | Tomé, Gina Gaspar de Matos, Margarida Reis, Marta Gomez-Baya, Diego Coelhoso, Filipa Wiium, Nora |
author_facet | Tomé, Gina Gaspar de Matos, Margarida Reis, Marta Gomez-Baya, Diego Coelhoso, Filipa Wiium, Nora |
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description | The five C’s of positive youth development (PYD) (competence, confidence, character, caring, and connection) have been associated with adaptive development among young people. Gender differences in young people’s wellbeing and mental health have been studied and analyzed, but the investigation into their association with the five C’s is still in its infancy. In the present study, we analyzed the influence of the five C’s on the wellbeing, more specifically, anxiety, social alienation, general wellbeing, physical symptoms, and psychological symptoms, of Portuguese adolescents, by gender. Participants were 5(th)–12th grade students attending public schools in Lisbon, Portugal. The questionnaire was administered to 384 adolescents. The results indicated important gender differences in young people’s wellbeing. The results revealed some differences between genders that should be considered in interventions that aim to promote the wellbeing of adolescents. On the other hand, confidence was positively associated with mental health and wellbeing for both boys and girls, skill should be promoted among young people, because it was competence that revealed the greatest association with wellbeing, among the variables analyzed. |
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spelling | pubmed-83293482021-08-04 Positive Youth Development and Wellbeing: Gender Differences Tomé, Gina Gaspar de Matos, Margarida Reis, Marta Gomez-Baya, Diego Coelhoso, Filipa Wiium, Nora Front Psychol Psychology The five C’s of positive youth development (PYD) (competence, confidence, character, caring, and connection) have been associated with adaptive development among young people. Gender differences in young people’s wellbeing and mental health have been studied and analyzed, but the investigation into their association with the five C’s is still in its infancy. In the present study, we analyzed the influence of the five C’s on the wellbeing, more specifically, anxiety, social alienation, general wellbeing, physical symptoms, and psychological symptoms, of Portuguese adolescents, by gender. Participants were 5(th)–12th grade students attending public schools in Lisbon, Portugal. The questionnaire was administered to 384 adolescents. The results indicated important gender differences in young people’s wellbeing. The results revealed some differences between genders that should be considered in interventions that aim to promote the wellbeing of adolescents. On the other hand, confidence was positively associated with mental health and wellbeing for both boys and girls, skill should be promoted among young people, because it was competence that revealed the greatest association with wellbeing, among the variables analyzed. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-07-20 /pmc/articles/PMC8329348/ /pubmed/34354625 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.641647 Text en Copyright © 2021 Tomé, Gaspar de Matos, Reis, Gomez-Baya, Coelhoso and Wiium. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Tomé, Gina Gaspar de Matos, Margarida Reis, Marta Gomez-Baya, Diego Coelhoso, Filipa Wiium, Nora Positive Youth Development and Wellbeing: Gender Differences |
title | Positive Youth Development and Wellbeing: Gender Differences |
title_full | Positive Youth Development and Wellbeing: Gender Differences |
title_fullStr | Positive Youth Development and Wellbeing: Gender Differences |
title_full_unstemmed | Positive Youth Development and Wellbeing: Gender Differences |
title_short | Positive Youth Development and Wellbeing: Gender Differences |
title_sort | positive youth development and wellbeing: gender differences |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8329348/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34354625 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.641647 |
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