Vision of Personal Future as a Tool for Supporting Adolescents’ Transition to Adulthood
This article reports on the Vision of personal future scale (VPF), an instrument aimed to assess cognitive clearness, conviction in realization, and the self-directedness of adolescents’ envisioning of their personal future. The 13-item scale was applied on 1,969 Serbian adolescents with the aim...
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| description | This article reports on the Vision of personal future scale (VPF), an instrument
aimed to assess cognitive clearness, conviction in realization, and the
self-directedness of adolescents’ envisioning of their personal future. The
13-item scale was applied on 1,969 Serbian adolescents with the aim of exploring
general aspects of their anticipations of their personal future. Results
show that adolescents highlight the motivational and guiding potential
of their own vision of the future. Two factor structures were extracted
(named motivational optimistic and cognitive fearful), but each factor was
emphasized differently by adolescents. The usefulness of the scale was discussed
in the context of youth work and the creation of specific programs
aimed to support youth development. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0ed1ebc2e64b49ddb9f306ecdc80d3182022-12-21T21:51:56ZengUniversity of PrimorskaManaging Global Transitions1581-63111854-69352019-09-0117323925810.26493/1854-6935.17.239-258Vision of Personal Future as a Tool for Supporting Adolescents’ Transition to AdulthoodNada Polovina0Smiljana Josic1Institute for Educational Research, SerbiaInstitute for Educational Research, SerbiaThis article reports on the Vision of personal future scale (VPF), an instrument aimed to assess cognitive clearness, conviction in realization, and the self-directedness of adolescents’ envisioning of their personal future. The 13-item scale was applied on 1,969 Serbian adolescents with the aim of exploring general aspects of their anticipations of their personal future. Results show that adolescents highlight the motivational and guiding potential of their own vision of the future. Two factor structures were extracted (named motivational optimistic and cognitive fearful), but each factor was emphasized differently by adolescents. The usefulness of the scale was discussed in the context of youth work and the creation of specific programs aimed to support youth development.http://www.hippocampus.si/ISSN/1854-6935/17.239-258.pdffuture thinkingvision of personal future scaleadolescentspositive youth development |
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| title | Vision of Personal Future as a Tool for Supporting Adolescents’ Transition to Adulthood |
| title_full | Vision of Personal Future as a Tool for Supporting Adolescents’ Transition to Adulthood |
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| title_sort | vision of personal future as a tool for supporting adolescents transition to adulthood |
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