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A Developmental Intervention Science Outreach Research Approach To Promoting Positive Youth Development, Roberto L. Rinaldi Mar 2011

A Developmental Intervention Science Outreach Research Approach To Promoting Positive Youth Development, Roberto L. Rinaldi

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Recent intervention efforts in promoting positive identity in troubled adolescents have begun to draw on the potential for an integration of the self-construction and self-discovery perspectives in conceptualizing identity processes, as well as the integration of quantitative and qualitative data analytic strategies. This study reports an investigation of the Changing Lives Program (CLP), using an Outcome Mediation (OM) evaluation model, an integrated model for evaluating targets of intervention, while theoretically including a Self-Transformative Model of Identity Development (STM), a proposed integration of self-discovery and self-construction identity processes. This study also used a Relational Data Analysis (RDA) integration of quantitative and …