The Chinese Positive Youth Development Scale: A Validation Study

Daniel T.L. Shek; Andrew M.H. Siu; Tak Yan Lee

doi:10.1177/1049731506296196

The Chinese Positive Youth Development Scale: A Validation Study

Daniel T.L. Shek, Andrew M.H. Siu, Tak Yan Lee

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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Objective: This article describes the development and initial validation of the 90-item Chinese Positive Youth Development Scale (CPYDS), which contains items related to 15 aspects of positive youth development. Method: Adolescents with well adjustment ( N = 162) and poor adjustment (N = 160) responded to the CPYDS. Results: The findings showed that the CPYDS measures possess acceptable internal consistency and were able to discriminate the two groups. Although the CPYDS measures were positively related to thriving, life satisfaction, and perceived academic achievement, they were negatively related to substance abuse, delinquency, and behavioral intention to engage in problem behavior. Conclusions: The CPYDS can be used as a global measure of positive youth development in Chinese adolescents, but its dimensionality and subscales should be further examined.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	380-391
Number of pages	12
Journal	Research on Social Work Practice
Volume	17
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1049731506296196
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2007

Keywords

assessment
Chinese adolescents
Hong Kong
positive youth development
validation study

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General Psychology

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