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Identity Projects and Positive Youth Development:The Importance of Efficacy, Integrity and Belonging during Adolescence

This thesis used a positive youth development framework to explore well-being concern experiences within the context of a young person's most important activities and goals, referred to here as identity projects. This thesis explored how identity projects were negotiated during adolescence; what impact well-being concerns had on commitment to projects; and how this related to subjective well-being (SWB).
Overall, experiences of efficacy and belonging, within identity projects, enhanced SWB in the short term, while only experiences of integrity enhanced SWB, namely life satisfaction, in the long term. The qualitative results indicated experiences of efficacy and belonging were most prevalent within leisure pursuits, while integrity was most commonly discussed within education and career projects.

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