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What's Your "Why?" A Content Analysis of Youth Purpose
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Baumsteiger, Rachel; Riches, Brian; Mangan, Susan A.; McConchie, James; Bronk, Kendall Cotton – Journal of Character Education, 2022
Youth purpose has important implications for behavior and well-being, yet there is limited information about the types of purpose that young people pursue. The current study contributes insight into the content of purpose through a survey of 316 adolescents and young adults. Analyses of responses revealed that young people rated their purposes as…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Young Adults, Goal Orientation, Self Concept
Modification and Standardization of Social Emotional Health Survey-Secondary--2020 Edition
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Furlong, Michael J.; Nylund-Gibson, K.; Dowdy, E.; Wagle, R.; Hinton, T.; Carter, D. – Grantee Submission, 2020
Our UC Santa Barbara research team engages in ongoing efforts to enhance and validate the Social Emotional Health Surveys (Primary, Secondary, and Higher Education). The initiative to enhance the secondary version is supported by an Institute of Education Sciences grant (#R305A160157, 2016-2020), which provides funding to refine, standardize, and…
Descriptors: Surveys, Psychometrics, Test Validity, Mental Health
Social Emotional Health Survey-Secondary--2015 Edition
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Furlong, Michael J.; Dowdy, Erin; Nylund-Gibson, Karen – Grantee Submission, 2018
This manual reports on the development and validation of the original Social Emotional Health Survey-Secondary (carried out between 2012 and 2017). We shared the first version of the SEHS-S because it had sufficient validation evidence based on research completed by 2015; hence, the form reported on in this manual is called the SEHS-S (2015)…
Descriptors: Surveys, Psychometrics, Test Validity, Mental Health
Retrospective Recall of Sexual Orientation Identity Development among Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Adults
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Calzo, Jerel P.; Antonucci, Toni C.; Mays, Vickie M.; Cochran, Susan D. – Developmental Psychology, 2011
Although recent attention has focused on the likelihood that contemporary sexual minority youth (i.e., gay, lesbian, bisexual [GLB]) are "coming out" at younger ages, few studies have examined whether early sexual orientation identity development is also present in older GLB cohorts. We analyzed retrospective data on the timing of sexual…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Profiles, Homosexuality, Sexuality
Mediation and Moderation: Testing Relationships between Symptom Status, Functional Health, and Quality of Life in HIV Patients
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Ryu, Ehri; West, Stephen G.; Sousa, Karen H. – Multivariate Behavioral Research, 2009
We extended Wilson and Cleary's (1995) health-related quality of life model to examine the relationships among symptom status (Symptoms), functional health (Disability), and quality of life (QOL). Using a community sample (N = 956) of male HIV positive patients, we tested a mediation model in which the relationship between Symptoms and QOL is…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Questionnaires, Patients, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Decision-Making Involvement of Individuals with Dementia
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Menne, Heather L.; Whitlatch, Carol J. – Gerontologist, 2007
Purpose: Research underscores how autonomy and decision-making involvement may help to enhance the quality of life of older adults; however, individuals with dementia are often excluded from decision making that is related to their daily functioning. In this study we use a modified version of the Stress Process Model to consider the stress process…
Descriptors: Dementia, Quality of Life, Multiple Regression Analysis, Depression (Psychology)