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5C’s in youth in Croatian context

Positive youth development short form (PYD Short Form) is widely used to measure 5C’s in cross-sectional, longitudinal and intervention research documenting that 5C or 6C model is found in various cultures. Aim of this paper is to present results on youth version of scale validation, as well as to present how 5C’s predict emotional distress. Pilot study of 5C model has included 568 youth aged 14 to 19, mean age being 16, 2. Positive Youth Development short form (Geldhof et al., 2014) was used to assess 5C characteristics of youth while they reported on their mental health, including Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale - 21 (DASS-21, Lovibond and Lovibond, 1995) and Warwick Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (Warwick Medical School, 1997). Analyses were done in Mplus, starting with CFA and ESEM for scale validation and model building with latent variables. ESEM model shows acceptable model fit in youth model: RMSEA upper bound less than .062, SRMR 0.035 and by CFI being close to .90 (0.886). Confidence and connection were significant predictors of emotional distress showing that youth with lower confidence and less connection to others exhibit more symptoms of emotional distress. Caring and character were significantly and positively related with emotional distress meaning that youth that showed higher empathy for others and has higher values showed more emotional distress. Competence was not a significant predictor for either gender male or female adolescents. Findings suggest that interventions for youth mental health should consider positive development perspective and especially build warm relationships with others as well as creating opportunities for confidence building.

positive-youth development ; 5C model ; adolescents ; emotional distress

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