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Adolescent Connectedness: A Scoping Review Of Available Measures And Their Psychometric Properties, Ezra Too, Esther Chongwo, Adam Mabrouk, Amina Abubakar
Adolescent Connectedness: A Scoping Review Of Available Measures And Their Psychometric Properties, Ezra Too, Esther Chongwo, Adam Mabrouk, Amina Abubakar
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Introduction: Adolescent connectedness, a key component of positive youth development, is associated with various positive health outcomes. Several measures have been developed to assess this construct. However, no study has summarized data on the existing measures of adolescent connectedness. We conducted this scoping review to fill this gap. We specifically aimed to: (i) identify the existing measures of adolescent connectedness, (ii) determine the most frequently used measures among the identified measures, and (iii) summarize the psychometric properties of these measures with a keen interest in highlighting their cross-cultural utility and validity.
Methods: We searched CINAHL, Embase, PsycInfo, PubMed, …