Social Support Among Slovene Minority and Italian Majority Youth in Italy: Links with Positive Identity, Social Competence and Academic Achievement

Kosic, Marianna; Wiium, Nora; Dimitrova, Radosveta

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-70262-5_12

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“…In line with Hypothesis 1, the findings revealed a statistically significant association between social support and positive identity. This finding is in line with the extant PYD literature and earlier work in Italy, Romania, Norway, Slovenia, and Turkey [2,32], where external assets like support and empowerment were associated with positive identity, as an internal asset. Explaining these associations, Scales et al [28] argued that positive developmental relationships are linked with fundamental developmental processes of a sense of identity (autonomy), a sense of agency (competence), and a commitment to community (relatedness).…”

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“…Despite such empirical interest, the research investigating relations between support and positive identity as defined by the DAF model is limited. From the limited literature, Kosic et al [32] confirmed the significant role of social support in boosting internal assets (positive identity and social competence), and positive outcomes, such as academic achievement among ethnic Italian youth (N = 524). The study provided valuable evidence that supportive relationships within schools, families, and communities can foster positive youth development.…”

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Positive Youth Identity: The Role of Adult Social Support

Jankowska-Tvedten,

Wiium

2023

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Positive identity is essential to adolescents’ well-being and a successful transition to adulthood. Understanding factors that contribute to identity formation is important to promote healthy development. The present study applies the Positive Youth Development (PYD) framework to explore associations between adult social support and positive identity among Norwegian high school students (N = 220, Mage = 17.30, SD = 1.12). Reflecting on the ecology of adolescence, the study examined the extent to which family, other significant adults, and school support relate to different dimensions of positive identity (personal power, self-esteem, sense of purpose, and positive view of future). Further, the hierarchy of importance among the support variables was investigated. Cross-sectional data on items measuring the different dimensions of social support and positive identity were analyzed. Findings from regression analyses indicated that adult support in all three ecological contexts (family, neighborhood, and school) was significantly and positively related to positive identity and at least one of its four dimensions (β = 0.15–0.27, p < 0.05). Support from other significant adults emerged as the most important predictor, followed by family and then school support. While future research should also consider support accessed through social media, our findings extend PYD scholarship in the Norwegian context by highlighting the importance of key youth ecological contexts when fostering positive youth identity.

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Positive Youth Identity: The Role of Adult Social Support

Jankowska-Tvedten,

Wiium

2023

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“…In other words, seeking social support can enhance social competence. Indeed, social support has predicted greater social competence in a wide range of young populations around the world such as Latino children [ 46 ], African American preschoolers [ 47 ], and racial minorities and majorities in Italy [ 48 ]. Social support can also facilitate Chinese rural-to-urban migrant children to adapt to urban cultures and improve their social competence [ 49 ].…”

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Social Support and Loneliness among Chinese Rural-to-Urban Migrant Children: A Moderated Mediation Analysis of the Roles of Social Competence and Stress Mindset

Chen

Yang

2022

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Social support has been an important social-contextual protective factor against loneliness. However, how individual-level protective factors, such as social competence and a positive stress mindset, may jointly influence the relationship between social support and loneliness is less known. This study examined to what extent the link between social support and loneliness would be mediated by social competence and moderated by stress mindset among migrant children. In total, 198 rural-to-urban migrant children aged 10–14 years (56.1% girls) in Beijing, China, completed a set of self-reported questionnaires. A moderated mediation analysis was performed. We found that perceived social support was associated with a lower level of loneliness, and this association was significant only for migrant children holding a positive stress mindset (indicated by a high ratio of the stress-is-a-challenge mindset to the stress-is-a-threat mindset). Notably, across children with different stress mindsets, perceived social support was indirectly related to a lower level of loneliness through greater social competence. Our findings suggest that social competence and a stress-is-a-challenge mindset are important individual-level protective factors for migrant children to overcome loneliness. Social competence can carry the effect of social support, and a stress-is-a-challenge mindset can optimize the effect of environmental resources on mental health.

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Social Support Among Slovene Minority and Italian Majority Youth in Italy: Links with Positive Identity, Social Competence and Academic Achievement

Cited by 2 publications

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Positive Youth Identity: The Role of Adult Social Support

Positive Youth Identity: The Role of Adult Social Support

Social Support and Loneliness among Chinese Rural-to-Urban Migrant Children: A Moderated Mediation Analysis of the Roles of Social Competence and Stress Mindset

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