Vol. 2024 No. 5 (2024)
Articles

Preliminary construction and validation of a questionnaire on adolescents' personal growth proactivity

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  • Duoduo Miao,
  • Leon Meyer
Duoduo Miao
Fujian Normal University, No. 18, Wu longjiang Middle Road, Shangjie Town, Minhou County, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, 350117, China.
Leon Meyer
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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Published 12-11-2024

Keywords

  • Adolescents,
  • Personal Growth Initiative,
  • Factor Analysis,
  • Reliability,
  • Validity

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D. Miao and L. Meyer, “Preliminary construction and validation of a questionnaire on adolescents’ personal growth proactivity”, The Young Thinker's Rev., vol. 2024, no. 5, pp. 8–13, Nov. 2024, doi: 10.62852/ytr/2024/97.

Abstract

The questionnaire was administered in middle schools and data from 944 valid participants were obtained, randomly divided into two parts. Sample one (N=472) was used for exploratory factor analysis, and sample two (N=472) was used for confirmatory factor analysis. The results indicated that the Adolescent Personal Growth Proactivity Questionnaire consists of 24 items, which are categorized into five factors: Growth Internality, Growth Autonomy, Growth Self-Determination, Growth Seeking, and Growth Externality. The questionnaire demonstrated good reliability and validity.

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