In this Research in Progress Seminar, Zheng Zhou will talk about her research into the effectiveness of a positive youth development intervention aimed at improving the positive characteristics of adolescents in Liangshan area, China.
- Associate professor
- Date
- Monday 28 Aug 2023, 14:00 - 15:00
- Type
- Seminar
- Spoken Language
- English
- Room
- 4.39 and zoom
- Location
- International Institute of Social Studies
- Ticket information
No registration is required to attend this event in-person.
Please send an email to Dr Zemzem Shigute Shuka at shuka@iss.nl if you would like to receive the Zoom link to this event.
Liangshan used to be an area of deep poverty in China. A study adopted a positive youth development intervention to improve the positive characteristics of adolescents in the Liangshan area, adapting the research to the local culture and socio-economic context.
In this Research in Progress Seminar, Zheng Zhou will examine the impact of the intervention on the recipients comprised of Yi minority adolescents. She will describe the evaluation of both the service providers (the university students providing the service) and the service recipients (Yi adolescents).
Her results show that the interventions made significant positive changes in the positive youth development attributes of Yi adolescents. These qualitative evaluation findings were consistent with the quantitative findings which provide evidence supporting the use of positive youth development programmes in nurturing positive development attributes of Yi adolescents in mainland China.
About the speaker
Dr Zheng Zhou is an associate professor at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in China. Her main research field lies in positive youth development; she is especially interested in the factors that promote positive outcomes such as individual resilience and peer influence for children in adverse circumstances.
- More information
The Research in Progress seminars provide an informal venue for presentations of ongoing research by ISS researchers and scholars from the wider development studies community.
