TY - CHAP
T1 - Positive Youth Development Through Student Engagement
T2 - Associations with Well-Being
AU - Upadyaya, Katja
AU - Salmela-Aro, Katariina
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - High engagement in studies is an important strength of adolescents, which promotes positive development, successful educational and occupational transitions, and overall well-being. This chapter reviews relevant evidence on students’ positive development through student engagement during a major transition to higher education and employment. In addition, different pathways of student engagement and the role of personal (e.g., gender, performance) and contextual antecedents (e.g., parenting styles, autonomy support) of engagement are discussed. The review showed that the positive continuum of engagement in studies and work is often associated with indicators of well-being (e.g., life satisfaction, career satisfaction), and negatively associated with ill-health (e.g., burnout, depressive symptoms) during the transition to higher education/work. The chapter concludes that student engagement facilitates late adolescents’ positive development in multiple ways and enhances their future career development.
AB - High engagement in studies is an important strength of adolescents, which promotes positive development, successful educational and occupational transitions, and overall well-being. This chapter reviews relevant evidence on students’ positive development through student engagement during a major transition to higher education and employment. In addition, different pathways of student engagement and the role of personal (e.g., gender, performance) and contextual antecedents (e.g., parenting styles, autonomy support) of engagement are discussed. The review showed that the positive continuum of engagement in studies and work is often associated with indicators of well-being (e.g., life satisfaction, career satisfaction), and negatively associated with ill-health (e.g., burnout, depressive symptoms) during the transition to higher education/work. The chapter concludes that student engagement facilitates late adolescents’ positive development in multiple ways and enhances their future career development.
KW - 516 Educational sciences
KW - 515 Psychology
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-70262-5_24
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-70262-5_24
M3 - Chapter
SN - 978-3-030-70261-8
T3 - Springer Series on Child and Family Studies SSCFS
SP - 361
EP - 374
BT - Handbook of Positive Youth Development
A2 - Dimitrova, Radosveta
A2 - Wiium, Nora
PB - Springer
CY - Cham
ER -