The purpose of this paper is to reveal how participation in school activities of adolescents is changing through the period of four years. The data used in this paper is from a larger four year longitudinal project on ...

The main purpose of this study was to ascertain if there existed different trajectories of intended social participation during the period of four years in adolescence using the person-oriented approach. The main task was ...

Research on materialism and well-being has drawn attention in recent decades. In consumer societies, material goods have become a symbol of happiness and success (e.g. Garðarsdóttir and Dittmar, 2012); although many research ...

Positive youth development is a competence based developmental concept (Lerner, 2005), focused on the main assumption that the youth possesses particular strengths and has potential for healthy successful development ...