The longitudinal effect of the quality of participation experiences in a voluntary organization on youth psychological empowerment.
latent growth curve modeling
longitudinal studies
psychological empowerment
quality of participation experiences
voluntary organizations
youth
Journal
Journal of community psychology
ISSN: 1520-6629
Titre abrégé: J Community Psychol
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0367033
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jan 2024
Jan 2024
Historique:
revised:
03
10
2023
received:
19
12
2022
accepted:
10
10
2023
medline:
7
12
2023
pubmed:
10
11
2023
entrez:
10
11
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Research shows its limitations by not capturing the specificities of individual experiences, which result either from the participation of or interaction among different people in a given context across time. This study explores the effect that the quality of youth participation experiences in a Portuguese voluntary organization can have on the development of their psychological empowerment (PE). This study adopted a longitudinal, quantitative design where the same cohort of 481 participants (62.4% female; M
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
289-303Subventions
Organisme : Foundation for Science and Technology
Organisme : Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, IP (FCT)
ID : UID/CED/00167/2019
Organisme : Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, IP (FCT)
ID : UIDB/00167/2020
Organisme : Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, IP (FCT)
ID : UIDP/00167/2020
Organisme : Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, IP (FCT)
ID : SFRH/BD/87458/2012
Informations de copyright
© 2023 Wiley Periodicals LLC.
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