RT Book, Section
T1 Positive Youth Development, Social Contribution, and Pro-environmental Behaviour in a Sample of Spanish Emerging Adults
A1 Gómez Baya, Diego
A1 Morales Marente, Elena María
A1 Grasmeijer, Anna Jean
A1 López Bermúdez, Esther
A1 Mendoza Berjano, Ramón
AB Positive Youth Development (PYD) is a strength-based perspectivethat posits that healthy development emerges because of the alignmentbetween personal strengths and contextual assets. This work is based onthe 5Cs model of PYD, which comprises five thriving indicators (competence,confidence, connection, character and caring) which are expectedto be associated with positive youth outcomes. The aim of this study was toexamine the relationships between the 5Cs of PYD and indicators of socialcontribution and pro-environmental behaviours. A cross-sectional study wasconducted in winter and spring of 2021 with a sample of 1044 emerging adults(75.5% females; Mage = 20.47, SD = 3.08) from 11 universities in Spain, whocompleted online self-report measures of PYD, social contribution and proenvironmentalbehaviour. The results showed that overall PYD was positivelyassociated with both social contribution (especially family contribution andadvising peers) and pro-environmental behaviours. Connection and characterhad the strongest positive associations with social contribution, while characterand caring had the strongest associations with the pro-environmentalbehaviours. In line with these findings, PYD promotion programs could bea valid intervention approach to foster more contribution to others and proenvironmentalbehaviours.
PB Vigmostad & Bjørke AS
SN 978-82-450-4915-2
SN 978-82-450-4424-9 (electrónico)
YR 2024
FD 2024-04
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10272/25689
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10272/25689
LA eng
NO Gómez-Baya, D., Morales-Marente, E., Grasmeijer, A. J., López-Bermúdez, E., & Mendoza-Berjano, R. (2024). Positive Youth Development, Social Contribution, and Pro-environmental Behaviour in a Sample of Spanish Emerging Adults. In N. Wiium, D. Manrique-Millones, D. Miconi, & D. Stefenel (Eds.), Addressing Social Justice: A Positive Youth Development Approach (pp. 93–110). Fagbokforlaget. https://doi.org/10.55669/oa311004
NO This research received funding from Research, Development and Innovation Projects of European Regional Development Fund in Andalusia 2014–2020. Grant number UHU-1259711, awarded to the first and last authors.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 14 jul 2026