PMID- 36569584
OWN - NLM
STAT- Publisher
LR  - 20240216
IS  - 1053-1890 (Print)
IS  - 1573-3319 (Electronic)
IS  - 1053-1890 (Linking)
DP  - 2022 Dec 20
TI  - Measuring Youth Perceptions of Being Known and Loved and Positive Youth 
      Development: Cross-National Findings from Rwanda and El Salvador.
PG  - 1-27
LID - 10.1007/s10566-022-09725-6 [doi]
AB  - BACKGROUND: Dynamic, relational developmental systems-based models of development 
      emphasize that developmentally-nurturant youth-adult relationships elicit in 
      youth perceptions of being known and loved. Although such perceptions are 
      foundations of positive youth development (PYD), such measures do not exist. 
      OBJECTIVE: We sought to create a theoretically-predicated measure of youth 
      perceptions of being known and loved by capitalizing on data sets in two 
      countries (Rwanda and El Salvador) wherein a multi-national study of PYD was 
      being conducted by Compassion International (CI). METHOD: With Rwanda data 
      (n = 1,204, M (age)  = 11.84, 50% CI-supported), exploratory and confirmatory 
      factor analyses enabled refining the measure for robustness and parsimony. 
      Measures of intentional self-regulation, hopeful future expectations, 
      transcendence, and contribution were used for validation of the known and loved 
      measure within the nomological net of constructs proposed in the Lerner and 
      Lerner PYD model. Confirmatory factor analyses supported the use of the model 
      within the El Salvador data set (n = 1,205, M (age)  = 13.03, 51% CI-supported). 
      RESULTS: Robust psychometric properties were established in both national 
      settings. Measurement invariance was found across age, gender, urban-rural 
      location, CI-enrollment status, and nations, and involved both mean differences 
      and correlations among latent factors. CONCLUSIONS: The results provide evidence 
      for a theory-predicated measure of youth perceptions of being known and loved and 
      that scores for this construct covary within a nomological net specified in the 
      Lerner and Lerner model of PYD. These findings serve international development 
      organizations seeking theory-predicated measures for use in evaluating PYD 
      programs in low- and middle-income countries. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 
      online version contains supplementary material available at 
      10.1007/s10566-022-09725-6.
CI  - (c) The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 
      part of Springer Nature 2022, Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or 
      other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing 
      agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of 
      the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms 
      of such publishing agreement and applicable law.
FAU - Tirrell, Jonathan M
AU  - Tirrell JM
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-4825-0207
AD  - Tufts University, Medford, USA. GRID: grid.429997.8. ISNI: 0000 0004 1936 7531
FAU - Dowling, Elizabeth M
AU  - Dowling EM
AD  - Tufts University, Medford, USA. GRID: grid.429997.8. ISNI: 0000 0004 1936 7531
FAU - Kibbedi, Patience
AU  - Kibbedi P
AD  - Compassion International Uganda, Kampala, Uganda.
FAU - Namurinda, Emmanuel
AU  - Namurinda E
AD  - Compassion International Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda.
FAU - Iraheta, Guillermo
AU  - Iraheta G
AD  - Compassion International El Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador.
FAU - Dennis, Julia
AU  - Dennis J
AD  - Tufts University, Medford, USA. GRID: grid.429997.8. ISNI: 0000 0004 1936 7531
FAU - Malvese, Katelyn
AU  - Malvese K
AD  - Tufts University, Medford, USA. GRID: grid.429997.8. ISNI: 0000 0004 1936 7531
FAU - Abbasi-Asl, Roya
AU  - Abbasi-Asl R
AD  - Tufts University, Medford, USA. GRID: grid.429997.8. ISNI: 0000 0004 1936 7531
FAU - Williams, Kate
AU  - Williams K
AD  - Compassion International, Colorado Springs, USA.
FAU - Lerner, Jacqueline V
AU  - Lerner JV
AD  - Boston College, Boston, USA. GRID: grid.208226.c. ISNI: 0000 0004 0444 7053
FAU - King, Pamela Ebstyne
AU  - King PE
AD  - Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, USA. GRID: grid.418060.b. ISNI: 0000 0001 
      2153 3250
FAU - Sim, Alistair T R
AU  - Sim ATR
AD  - Compassion International, Colorado Springs, USA.
FAU - Lerner, Richard M
AU  - Lerner RM
AD  - Tufts University, Medford, USA. GRID: grid.429997.8. ISNI: 0000 0004 1936 7531
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20221220
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Child Youth Care Forum
JT  - Child & youth care forum
JID - 9108961
PMC - PMC9764308
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Being known and loved
OT  - Compassion International
OT  - Developmentally-nurturant relationships
OT  - Measure development
OT  - Positive youth development
EDAT- 2022/12/27 06:00
MHDA- 2022/12/27 06:00
PMCR- 2022/12/20
CRDT- 2022/12/26 04:17
PHST- 2022/12/09 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2022/12/26 04:17 [entrez]
PHST- 2022/12/27 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/12/27 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2022/12/20 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 9725 [pii]
AID - 10.1007/s10566-022-09725-6 [doi]
PST - aheadofprint
SO  - Child Youth Care Forum. 2022 Dec 20:1-27. doi: 10.1007/s10566-022-09725-6.