Emotional Competence as a Positive Youth Development Construct: A Conceptual Review

Lau, Patrick S. Y.; Wu, Florence K.Y.

doi:10.1100/2012/975189

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“…For example, bonding is important for adolescent to develop a sense of security and become resilient in stressful situations (Lee and Lok 2012). Emotional competence is another meaningful PYD construct that is often related to adolescent subjective well-being (Lau and Wu 2012). To meet the needs of different students, the Project P.A.T.H.S.…”

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Changes in the Participants in a Community-Based Positive Youth Development Program in Hong Kong: Objective Outcome Evaluation Using a One-Group Pretest-Posttest Design

M.S.

Shek

Chen

2018

Applied Research Quality Life

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Project BP.A.T.H.S.^has been shown to be effective in promoting positive development outcomes among Chinese adolescents in the school context. However, little is known whether the benefits can also be found in other settings. The purposes of the study was to investigate the changes in psychosocial outcomes among Hong Kong Chinese adolescents after participating in a community-based positive youth development (PYD) program. Using a one-group pretest-posttest design, junior high school students (N = 17,544) were invited to join the universal prevention program (the Tier 1 Program) and/or the selective prevention program (the Tier 2 Program). 10,807 students whose pre-and post-test data were successfully matched. The students responded to validated outcome measures assessing PYD outcomes, life satisfaction and thriving at pretest and posttest. Consistent with the hypotheses, students showed positive change on different developmental outcomes after joining the program. Amongst the different programs, students in the Tier 2 Program had significant improvement in all developmental outcome indicators. While limitations of the one-group pretest-posttest design and the alternative explanations are duly acknowledged, the present study suggests that the community-based Project P.A.T.H.S. is a promising approach to promote positive youth development, life satisfaction and thriving of adolescents, a conclusion which is consistent with the existing evaluation findings of the project. Building from previous school-based research, the present study extends the literature by showing the effectiveness of a positive youth prevention program in a community context. Limitations of the study design (e.g., an absence of a control group) are discussed.Applied Research Quality Life

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Changes in the Participants in a Community-Based Positive Youth Development Program in Hong Kong: Objective Outcome Evaluation Using a One-Group Pretest-Posttest Design

M.S.

Shek

Chen

2018

Applied Research Quality Life

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“…Stress usually leads to emotional exhaustion and the individual feels emotionally drained by intense contact with others. (23) The ability to regulate and mange one's emotions as well as being emotionally competent is a good strategy to cope with stress. (47) This is especially true knowing that the studied nursing students had a moderate degree of emotional skills/ competency and a high level of perceived stress with a negative significant correlation between them.…”

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“…(22) In order to, provide a high-quality care,nurses must be able to recognize, handle, manage, and understand emotions not only in themselves but also in others. (23) Emotional competence is "the ability to identify and manage one's emotions. This includes knowing how to nourish one's emotional state, take turns, delay gratification, and cope with failure and loss.…”

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Relationship between Perceived Stress, Psychological Wellbeing and Emotional Competence among Baccalaureate Nursing Students: an Egyptian Sample

Lachine¹,

Mohamed²,

Eweida³

2019

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Nursing education is acknowledged as one of the stressful and emotionally demanding profession. Stress among nursing students is an inevitable issue that might lead to poor psychological wellbeing. Having a good emotional competence helps university nursing students to decrease their stressand enhance their psychological well-being. Aim: this study was aimed to determine the relationship between the perceived stress, psychological wellbeing and emotional competence among baccalaureate nursing students. Design: A descriptive correlational research design was used in this study. Baccalaureate nursing students who were enrolled at Psychiatric Nursing and Mental Health coursewere the study subjects. Their number amounted 135 students. Four tools were used namely; Bio-socio demographic data structured interview schedule, Ryff's Psychological Wellbeing (RPWB) scale, The Emotional Skills/Competence questionnaire and Perceived Stress Scale (PSS).Results:A positive significant relation between the students' psychological well-being and their Emotional competence was noted and there was a negative significant correlation between them and students' perceived stress.It can be concluded that nursing students have high level of stress and their emotional skills/competence in addition to their psychological well-being can help them to decrease their level of stress. Implementation of emotional hygiene program, to teach the nursing students to care for their own emotions and didn't leave them injured or untreated is recommended.

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“…Ineffective orientation to emotional-related problems is related to the diffi culty in identifying, recognizing, and naming the emotions (Lau and Wu 2013 ). Ineffective orientation may lead an individual to avoid thoughts and feelings related to the problem (Frauenknecht and Black 1995 ).…”

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Student Well-Being in Chinese Adolescents in Hong Kong

Lee¹,

Shek

Sun

2015

Quality of Life in Asia

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Emotional Competence as a Positive Youth Development Construct: A Conceptual Review

Cited by 36 publications

References 46 publications

Changes in the Participants in a Community-Based Positive Youth Development Program in Hong Kong: Objective Outcome Evaluation Using a One-Group Pretest-Posttest Design

Changes in the Participants in a Community-Based Positive Youth Development Program in Hong Kong: Objective Outcome Evaluation Using a One-Group Pretest-Posttest Design

Relationship between Perceived Stress, Psychological Wellbeing and Emotional Competence among Baccalaureate Nursing Students: an Egyptian Sample

Student Well-Being in Chinese Adolescents in Hong Kong

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