Flourishing Children

Defining and Testing Indicators of Positive Development

Laura H. Lippman, Kristin Anderson Moore, Lina Guzman, Renee Ryberg, Hugh McIntosh (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

105 Seiten

2014
Springer (Verlag)
978-94-017-8606-5 (ISBN)

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This volume presents the results of the Flourishing Children Project. The study addressed gaps in the research on indicators of positive development of adolescents. Such indicators are essential for the balanced and scientifically sound study of adolescents. Yet measures of many aspects of flourishing are not available, and when they do exist, they are rarely measured in a developmentally appropriate manner for adolescents. In addition, they are often too long for program evaluations and surveys, have not been tested on diverse populations, nor carefully validated as predictors of positive outcomes. The Flourishing Children Project undertook the development of scales for adolescents ages 12-17 for 19 aspects of flourishing covering six domains: flourishing in school and work, personal flourishing, flourishing in relationships, relationship skills, helping others to flourish, and environmental stewardship. This volume describes the four-stage process of developing the scales, including: Reviewing the literature for extant measures for items to test and synthesizing the existing research into consensus definitions for each construct; conducting cognitive testing of items with adolescents and their parents; pilot testing the items; and conducting psychometric analyses.

Chapter 1. Studying Aspects of Flourishing among Adolescents.- Chapter 2. Cognitive Interviews: Designing Survey Questions for Adolescents.- Chapter 3. Pilot Study and Psychometric Analyses.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.3.2014
Reihe/Serie	SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research
Zusatzinfo	58 Illustrations, black and white; VII, 105 p. 58 illus.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Humanistische Psychotherapien
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Test in der Psychologie
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	94-017-8606-2 / 9401786062
ISBN-13	978-94-017-8606-5 / 9789401786065
Zustand	Neuware