College of Public Health and Human Sciences, 410 Waldo Hall, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, 97331, USA,
J Youth Adolesc. 2014 Jun;43(6):933-49. doi: 10.1007/s10964-014-0093-z. Epub 2014 Feb 21.
As developmental scientists cease to perceive adolescence as a period of inevitable turmoil and adopt the Positive Youth Development (PYD) perspective, psychometrically sound measurement tools will be needed to assess adolescents' positive attributes. In this article we examine the longitudinal stability of the very short version of the PYD scale developed as part of the 4-H Study of PYD. Using a sample of 7,071 adolescents (60% female) followed between Grades 5 and 12, our results suggest general stability of PYD across adolescence, both in terms of mean levels and rank-order stability. We also show that both a global measure of PYD and the individual Five Cs of PYD consistently correlate with important criterion measures (i.e., contribution, depressive symptoms, and problem behaviors) in expected ways. Although our results suggest weak relationships among our three criteria, we especially note that across adolescence PYD becomes more strongly correlated with contribution but less strongly correlated with depressive symptoms, and that confidence becomes more strongly related to depressive symptoms. We discuss implications for use of the present PYD measure in youth development programs.
随着发展科学家不再将青春期视为必然动荡的时期，并采用积极的青年发展（PYD）视角，将需要心理测量学上合理的测量工具来评估青少年的积极属性。在本文中，我们检查了作为 4-H PYD 研究的一部分开发的 PYD 量表的极短版本的纵向稳定性。使用了在五年级至十二年级之间进行跟踪的 7071 名青少年（60%为女性）的样本，我们的结果表明，PYD 在整个青春期都具有普遍的稳定性，无论是在平均水平还是等级稳定性方面。我们还表明，PYD 的总体衡量标准和五个要素的个别要素都以预期的方式与重要的标准衡量标准（即贡献、抑郁症状和问题行为）相关。尽管我们的结果表明我们的三个标准之间存在较弱的关系，但我们特别注意到，整个青春期 PYD 与贡献的相关性更强，与抑郁症状的相关性更弱，而信心与抑郁症状的相关性更强。我们讨论了在青年发展计划中使用本 PYD 衡量标准的意义。
