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dc.contributor | Department of Applied Social Sciences | - |
dc.creator | Ma, CMS | en_US |
dc.creator | Shek, DTL | en_US |
dc.creator | Chen, JMT | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-02-10T12:28:30Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2020-02-10T12:28:30Z | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1871-2584 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10397/81664 | - |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Springer | en_US |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2018, corrected publication June/2018 | en_US |
dc.rights | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, duplication, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. | en_US |
dc.rights | The following publication Ma, C.M.S., Shek, D.T.L. & Chen, J.M.T. Changes in the Participants in a Community-Based Positive Youth Development Program in Hong Kong: Objective Outcome Evaluation Using a One-Group Pretest-Posttest Design. Applied Research Quality Life 14, 961–979 (2019) is available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-018-9632-1 | en_US |
dc.subject | Objective outcome evaluation | en_US |
dc.subject | Positive youth development | en_US |
dc.subject | Program effectiveness | en_US |
dc.subject | Project P.A.T.H.S | en_US |
dc.title | Changes in the participants in a community-based positive youth development program in Hong Kong : objective outcome evaluation using a one-group pretest-posttest design | en_US |
dc.type | Journal/Magazine Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.spage | 961 | en_US |
dc.identifier.epage | 979 | en_US |
dc.identifier.volume | 14 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issue | 4 | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s11482-018-9632-1 | en_US |
dcterms.abstract | Project “P.A.T.H.S.” has been shown to be effective in promoting positive development outcomes among Chinese adolescents in the school context. However, little is known whether the benefits can also be found in other settings. The purposes of the study was to investigate the changes in psychosocial outcomes among Hong Kong Chinese adolescents after participating in a community-based positive youth development (PYD) program. Using a one-group pretest-posttest design, junior high school students (N = 17,544) were invited to join the universal prevention program (the Tier 1 Program) and/or the selective prevention program (the Tier 2 Program). 10,807 students whose pre-and post-test data were successfully matched. The students responded to validated outcome measures assessing PYD outcomes, life satisfaction and thriving at pretest and posttest. Consistent with the hypotheses, students showed positive change on different developmental outcomes after joining the program. Amongst the different programs, students in the Tier 2 Program had significant improvement in all developmental outcome indicators. While limitations of the one-group pretest-posttest design and the alternative explanations are duly acknowledged, the present study suggests that the community-based Project P.A.T.H.S. is a promising approach to promote positive youth development, life satisfaction and thriving of adolescents, a conclusion which is consistent with the existing evaluation findings of the project. Building from previous school-based research, the present study extends the literature by showing the effectiveness of a positive youth prevention program in a community context. Limitations of the study design (e.g., an absence of a control group) are discussed. | - |
dcterms.accessRights | open access | en_US |
dcterms.bibliographicCitation | Applied research in quality of life, Sept. 2019, v. 14, no. 4, p. 961-979 | en_US |
dcterms.isPartOf | Applied research in quality of life | en_US |
dcterms.issued | 2019-09 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000488949300008 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | 2-s2.0-85046026294 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1871-2576 | en_US |
dc.description.validate | 202002 bcrc | - |
dc.description.oa | Version of Record | en_US |
dc.identifier.FolderNumber | a0636-n71, OA_Scopus/WOS | en_US |
dc.description.pubStatus | Published | en_US |
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