Positive youth development, satisf'action and problem behaviour model amongst Malaysian youth population

• Main Authors: Mahadzirah, Mohamad, Ahmad Ru Sdi, Abdullah, Manan, Ali
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: B Philosophy (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/2680/1/FH02-FESP-16-06804.pdf; http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/2680/

Youth are perceived to be an important resource/manpower to sustain the nation's ,-ontinuous development and growth to drive the nation forward and becoming a developed country ry the year 2020. Positive youth development initiatives are deemed necessary to support the :ation's aspiration for healthy, happy and competent adolescent. Promoting positive development .rmong youth will lead them to thrive and make positive contributions to self, family, community and civil society. Subjective quality oflife is defined as the overall self-reported life satisfaction of an individual. Life satisfaction is the subjective measure of quality of life referring to individuals' internal judgement of their overall lives and/or specific life domains, such as satisfaction with iends, family and school experiences. Many life-satisfaction studies appeared to be negatively ::sociated with adolescent problem behaviours. Problem behaviour incidents amongst youth do lot contribute positively to community and civil society well being and are associated with life cissatisfaction. Efforts should be undertaken to address problem behaviour among youth as it is :eported to increase dramatically during adolescence compared to during childhood. Therefore, this .rudy is conducted to develop and validate the proposed hypothesised model, identiff the effect of :ositive youth development as predicting factors on youth life satisfaction and problem behaviour, :ramine the effect of life satisfaction on problem behaviour, explore areas of improvement in the ;.ifferent aspects of positive youth development and recommend interventions programmes. Hence, '-:re findings of this study would be able to propose a model of Positive Youth Development, Quality -.lLife and Problem Behaviour, identifu the predicting factors of youth life satisfaction and problem :ehaviour, suggest areas of improvements in the different aspects of positive youth development =nd recommend intervention programmes/strategies to reduce problem behaviour amongst the '.'outh population in Malaysia.