Optimalus paauglių psichosocialinis funkcionavimas ir suvoktas tėvų elgesys: raidos trajektorijos ir pokyčio mechanizmai
Abstract
Positive youth development (PYD) is strengths-based model focused on the main assumption that the
youth possess particular strengths and have potential for healthy successful development. PYD perspective
includes the conceptual model of adolescent development and emphasizes the importance of the adolescents
contexts, such as the family. The study contributes to the theoretical perspective of positive youth
development in several aspects. First, results showed that over the course of a four-year period positive
youth development changes relatively little, and the adolescents can be described as having high, medium
and low positive youth development. Second, positive youth development positively predicts higher
contribution to self, family and comminity. Thirdly, in examining the bidirectional relationships between
perceived parental behavior (psychological control, behavioral control and autonomy support) and positive
youth development, it has been found that only positive youth deveopment predicts the change of
perceived parental behavior, and not vice versa. Finally, for the first time different groups of changing perceived
parental behavior were identified. A holistic analysis of the relationship between perceived parent
behavior and positive youth development revealed that adolescents with high positive youth development
perceive their parents as more supportive, adequately controling their behavior and using less psychological
control, while low positive youth development adolescents, in contrary, perceive their parents, as less
supportive, less controlling their behavior and using more psychological control.