RT Journal Article
T1 The 5Cs of Positive Youth Development and Risk Behaviors in a Sample of Spanish Emerging Adults: A Partial Mediation Analysis of Gender Differences
A1 Gómez Baya, Diego
A1 Martín Barrado, Antonio David
A1 Muñoz Parralo, María
A1 Roh, Myunghoon
A1 García Moro, Francisco José
A1 Mendoza Berjano, Ramón
AB Positive Youth Development (PYD) emerged as a holistic and strength-based perspectivethat focuses on the fact that young people may have the internal and external resources for healthyand successful development through five dimensions (5Cs) that empower them: Perceived Competence,Confidence, Character, Connection, and Caring. The aim of this study was to examine therelationship between the overall PYD factor, the 5Cs, and risk behaviors, in addition to analyzinggender differences. This study showed the results of a cross-sectional study of 1044 emerging adultsfrom 11 Spanish universities in 2021. Data collection was performed by applying an online self-reportmeasure. The results showed that the Character was protective against substance abuse, mainly inwomen, while the connection was related to the participation of betting money and online bettingin men. Caring was protective against money bets in the men’s sample. However, controversialresults were found regarding Perceived competence, which had a positive association with substanceabuse, money bets, and drunk driving. It seems that high levels of Perceived competence, ratherthan objective competence, were associated with engagement in various risk behaviors. Concerninggender differences, men showed more risky behaviors than women. A partial mediation modelpointed out that lower character and higher perceived competence in men partly explained the higherpresence of risky behavior compared to women. These results underline the need to promote PYDwithin the university context to prevent risky behaviors by addressing gender differences and theseparate role of the 5Cs.
PB MDPI
SN 2254-9625 (electrónico)
YR 2023
FD 2023-11-01
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10272/22703
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10272/22703
LA eng
NO Gomez-Baya, D., Martin-Barrado, A. D., Muñoz-Parralo, M., Roh, M., Garcia-Moro, F. J., & Mendoza-Berjano, R. (2023). The 5Cs of Positive Youth Development and Risk Behaviors in a Sample of Spanish Emerging Adults: A Partial Mediation Analysis of Gender Differences. In European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education (Vol. 13, Issue 11, pp. 2410–2427). MDPI AG. https://doi.org/10.3390/ejihpe13110170
NO This research received funding from Research, Development and Innovation Projectsof European Regional Development Fund in Andalusia 2014–2020. Grant number UHU-1259711,awarded to D.G.-B. and R.M.-B. This research also received funding from Excellence Research ProjectsFund of the Junta de Andalucia, granted to D.G.-B. Grant number: PROYEXCEL_00303.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 15 jun 2026