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Positive Youth Development in Croatian Context- Validation of 5C Short Measure of PYD

A framework for understanding the interrelationship of individual and environmental factors that influence adolescent outcomes, as well as opportunities for policy-level interventions, is known as Positive Youth Development (PYD). PYD has been conceptualized in several theoretical frameworks to index the strengths of adolescents. The five C's model operationalized C's that provide common terminology for indices describing thriving youth - competence, confidence, character, connection and caring (Lerner et al, 2005). 5C's were shown to be predictors of positive trajectories and person-context relations. This paper is a part of study "Testing the 5C framework of positive youth development: traditional and digital mobile measurement - P.R.O.T.E.C.T." funded by Croatian Science Foundation, UIP – 2020 – 02 – 2852. The aim is to present information about short 5C questionnaire (Geldhof et al, 2013) validation in Croatian context. Various measures are being used to test the pathways between positive youth development and adolescent risk behaviors and mental health outcomes. Psychometrically sound tools are needed to address adolescent's development. For Croatian context, short 5C's questionnaire was chosen due to its parsimony, easily computable scale scores for individual C's and overall level of individual's positive youth development. Short 5C measure was administered to 310 college students from three Croatian cities within the Google forms format . Participants were more likely to be female than male (65%) and more than half of them were living in urban areas (59%). CFA and ESEM analyses in M plus were employed to test the model's factor structure. We have found that higher order models have acceptable fit. Measure can be easily taken over by researchers and practitioners to provide science-based approach to youth policy and programming in various context.

Positive Youth Development, 5C, measure, validation

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