RT Journal Article
T1 Positive Youth Development in Portugal: A Tool towards Gender Equity?
A1 Gaspar de Matos, Margarida
A1 Santos, Teresa
A1 Reis, Marta
A1 Gómez Baya, Diego
A1 Marques, Adilson
AB Positive Youth Development - PYD pointed out the need to strengthen internal/externaldevelopmental assets in youth’s contexts. Literature suggests gender differences concerning health outcomes,with girls reporting poorer health outcomes, but higher quality in peer relationships, than boys. This chapterexamines the associations of PYD and its dimensions with psychosocial variables, according to gender.Through an online survey, 2700 Portuguese college students (73.3% females), with a mean age of 21.3±2.79years old were included. For both genders, the results showed significant differences and similarities with thePYD’s total score and its dimensions. Such results reinforce the importance to study positive indicators forPYD, but taking into account gender issues. More knowledge in this area can help health/educationprofessionals and policy-makers to better plan interventions/policies. It is aimed to improve an integral andgender-sensitive healthy perspective for youths, based on interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary work.
PB ARC Publications
SN 2455-5711
YR 2018
FD 2018-06
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/18617
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/18617
LA eng
NO Gaspar de Matos, M., Santos, T., Reis, M., Gómez Baya, D. & Marques, A. (2018).  Positive Youth Development in Portugal: A Tool towards Gender Equity?. ARC Journal of Pediatrics Volume 4, Issue 1, 2018, PP 25-35. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.20431/2455-5711.0401004
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 30 may 2026