RT Journal Article
T1 Positive Youth Development and Wellbeing: Gender Differences
A1 Tomé, Gina
A1 Gaspar de Matos, Margarida
A1 Reis, Marta
A1 Gómez Baya, Diego
AB The five C’s of positive youth development (PYD) (competence, confidence, character,caring, and connection) have been associated with adaptive development among youngpeople. Gender differences in young people’s wellbeing and mental health have beenstudied and analyzed, but the investigation into their association with the five C’s is still inits 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, andpsychological symptoms, of Portuguese adolescents, by gender. Participants were 5th–12th grade students attending public schools in Lisbon, Portugal. The questionnaire wasadministered to 384 adolescents. The results indicated important gender differences inyoung people’s wellbeing. The results revealed some differences between genders thatshould be considered in interventions that aim to promote the wellbeing of adolescents.On the other hand, confidence was positively associated with mental health andwellbeing 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.
PB Frontiers Media
SN 1664-1078 (electrónico)
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/20226
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/20226
LA eng
NO Tomé, G., Gaspar de Matos, M., Reis, M., Gomez-Baya, D., Coelhoso, F., & Wiium, N. (2021). Positive Youth Development and Wellbeing: Gender Differences. In Frontiers in Psychology (Vol. 12). Frontiers Media SA. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.641647
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 30 may 2026