TY - JOUR
T1 - The role of adolescents' hopeful futures in predicting positive and negative developmental trajectories
T2 - Findings from the 4-H study of positive youth development
AU - Schmid, Kristina L.
AU - Phelps, Erin
AU - Kiely, Megan K.
AU - Napolitano, Christopher M.
AU - Boyd, Michelle J.
AU - Lerner, Richard M.
N1 - Funding Information:
The preparation of this article was supported in part by grants from the National 4-H Council and the Thrive Foundation for Youth.
PY - 2011/1
Y1 - 2011/1
N2 - Hope for one's future and intentional self-regulation skills may be important in the development of positive and problematic outcomes across adolescence. Using data from 1273 participants from Grades 7 to 9 of the 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development (PYD), we assessed the role of a hopeful future in predicting developmental outcomes, measured by trajectories of PYD, contribution (e.g., thinking about and acting on social justice behaviors), risk behaviors, and depressive symptoms. A measure of intentional self-regulation, which involves selecting goals (S), optimizing resources to achieve goals (O), and compensating when riginal goals are blocked (C), was also used to predict outcomes. Higher levels of both hopeful future and selection, optimization, and compensation (SOC) significantly predicted membership in the most favorable trajectories, controlling for sex and socioeconomic status (SES). Hopeful future was a stronger predictor than SOC for each of the outcomes assessed. Implications for future research about individual-context relational processes involved in PYD are discussed.
AB - Hope for one's future and intentional self-regulation skills may be important in the development of positive and problematic outcomes across adolescence. Using data from 1273 participants from Grades 7 to 9 of the 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development (PYD), we assessed the role of a hopeful future in predicting developmental outcomes, measured by trajectories of PYD, contribution (e.g., thinking about and acting on social justice behaviors), risk behaviors, and depressive symptoms. A measure of intentional self-regulation, which involves selecting goals (S), optimizing resources to achieve goals (O), and compensating when riginal goals are blocked (C), was also used to predict outcomes. Higher levels of both hopeful future and selection, optimization, and compensation (SOC) significantly predicted membership in the most favorable trajectories, controlling for sex and socioeconomic status (SES). Hopeful future was a stronger predictor than SOC for each of the outcomes assessed. Implications for future research about individual-context relational processes involved in PYD are discussed.
KW - Adolescents
KW - Developmental trajectories
KW - Hope
KW - Hopeful future
KW - Intentional self-regulation
KW - Positive youth development
KW - Youth development
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U2 - 10.1080/17439760.2010.536777
DO - 10.1080/17439760.2010.536777
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79951491451
SN - 1743-9760
VL - 6
SP - 45
EP - 56
JO - Journal of Positive Psychology
JF - Journal of Positive Psychology
IS - 1
ER -