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Positive youth development in Portugal : a tool towards gender equity?
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Positive Youth Development - PYD pointed out the need to strengthen internal/external
developmental 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 chapter
examines 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±2.79
years old were included. For both genders, the results showed significant differences and similarities with the
PYD’s total score and its dimensions. Such results reinforce the importance to study positive indicators for
PYD, but taking into account gender issues. More knowledge in this area can help health/education
professionals and policy-makers to better plan interventions/policies. It is aimed to improve an integral and
gender-sensitive healthy perspective for youths, based on interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary work.
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© 2018 Authors. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative
Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium,
provided the original author and source are credited.
Palavras-chave
Academic achievement Anxiety Developmental assets Five Cs Gender differences Portugal Positive Youth Development Short Form (PYD-SF) Resilience Self-regulation
Contexto Educativo
Citação
ARC Journal of Pediatrics Volume 4, Issue 1, 2018, pp 25-35
Editora
ARC Publications