制定和验证青年发展工具：对青少年健康和福祉的全面调查

IF 1.7 2区社会学 Q1 FAMILY STUDIES

Children and Youth Services Review Pub Date : 2025-08-29 DOI:10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108557

Hasina Samji , Jorge A. Delgado-Ron , Kimberly A. Schonert-Reichl , Martin Guhn , David Long , Jenna Whitehead , Lauren Gorfinkle , Giulia De Arruda Maluf , Judy Wu , Julia Kaufmann , Jose M. del Casal , Jacqueline Maloney

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美国和加拿大迫切需要基于优势的方法来保护和促进青少年的福祉，这两个国家的青少年幸福感和心理健康在世界上最富有的国家中排名最低。由于青少年面临前所未有的挑战，确定青少年福祉的保护和促进因素对于指导政策、公共卫生和教育部门的对策至关重要。目的研究青少年发展量表（YDI）的维度和心理测量特征，YDI是一项在纵向幸福感监测系统中对青少年健康和幸福感进行的全面调查。青少年发展指标主要采用已被确认为对青少年福祉至关重要的现有、经过验证的措施。方法：我们与青少年、跨学科专家以及青少年发展、医学、政策、心理学、精神病学、教育和公共卫生方面的合作伙伴协商，描述了调查的创建过程。我们在2021年对加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省31所学校的2295名11年级学生进行了YDI试点实施的心理测量分析。我们检查了每个测量的维度以及与繁荣、弹性和亲社会取向的关系，以评估它们的构念效度。结果探索性因子分析和验证性因子分析均显示各测量的单维性。大多数测量具有良好或优秀的内部一致性（平均Cronbach 's α: 0.85），并显示出与繁荣、弹性和/或亲社会取向的中等或较大程度的相关性，而与家庭富裕的相关性较小。相关模式与理论文献一致。结论青少年心理健康指数是一项全面的、心理测量学上可靠的青少年幸福感及保护和促进因素调查。YDI的可链接性也为衡量人口层面的心理健康和福祉轨迹创造了潜力。青少年发展工具（YDI）的发展和验证：青少年健康和福祉的综合调查。

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Development and validation of the youth development instrument (YDI): A comprehensive survey of adolescent health and well-being

Rationale

Strengths-based approaches are urgently needed to protect and promote adolescent well-being in the United States and Canada, where adolescent happiness and mental health rank among the lowest of the world’s wealthiest countries. Identifying protective and promotive factors for adolescent well-being is critical for guiding policy, public health, and education sector responses as adolescents face unprecedented challenges.

Objective

We examined the dimensionality and psychometric properties of the Youth Development Instrument (YDI), a comprehensive survey of adolescent health and well-being within a longitudinal well-being monitoring system. The YDI draws predominantly from existing, validated measures identified as fundamental to adolescent well-being.

Methods

We describe the survey creation process in consultation with adolescents, interdisciplinary experts, and partners in adolescent development, medicine, policy, psychology, psychiatry, education, and public health. We conducted psychometric analysis of the YDI pilot implementation among 2295 eleventh-grade students across 31 schools in British Columbia, Canada, in 2021. We examined each measure’s dimensionality and relationship with thriving, resilience, and prosocial orientation to assess their construct validity.

Results

Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses demonstrated the uni-dimensionality of each measure. Most measures had good or excellent internal consistency (mean Cronbach’s α: 0.85) and demonstrated moderate or large magnitude correlations to thriving, resilience, and/or prosocial orientation and small correlations with family affluence as hypothesized. Correlation patterns aligned with theoretical literature.

Conclusion

The YDI is a comprehensive and psychometrically sound survey of adolescents’ well-being and protective and promotive factors. The YDI’s linkable nature also creates potential for measuring population-level mental health and wellbeing trajectories.

Development and Validation of the Youth Development Instrument (YDI): A Comprehensive Survey of Adolescent Health and Well-Being.

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期刊介绍： Children and Youth Services Review is an interdisciplinary forum for critical scholarship regarding service programs for children and youth. The journal will publish full-length articles, current research and policy notes, and book reviews.