Journal article
Adolescent Care-Orientation and Positive Development in Young Adulthood
D Hutchinson, GJ Youssef, A Buhagiar, S Teague, JA Macdonald, P Letcher, C Greenwood, J McIntosh, JW Toumbourou, BWT Hallam, H Skouteris, A Sanson, CA Olsson
Journal of Adolescent Health | ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC | Published : 2019
Abstract
Purpose: This study examined the extent to which care-oriented attitudes and behaviours in adolescence (e.g., volunteering) predict positive development (PD; e.g., life satisfaction and meaning/purpose) in young adulthood (19–28 years). Methods: The analytic sample comprised 1,359 participants participating from a 35-year (16 wave) population-based cohort study (The Australian Temperament Project). Adolescent care-oriented attitudes and behaviours were defined in mid-adolescence (15–16 years). Young adult PD was defined by latent growth curve modelling across three waves (19–20, 23–24, and 27–28 years). Results: There was considerable variation in PD at the beginning of young adulthood (19–2..
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Awarded by Financial Markets Foundation for Children
Funding Acknowledgements
This research was funded by a project grant from the Australian Research Council to Principal Investigators Ann Sanson, Craig Olsson, and Diana Smart, 2008-2011 (DP0987573) and a grant from the Financial Markets Foundation for Children Australia to principal investigators Craig Olsson, Delyse Hutchinson, and Joanne Ryan, 2015-2016.