Contemporary youth wellbeing assets: early challenges towards realization of Malaysia Youth Policy
This paper intends to analyse the contemporary assets of youth wellbeing in the context of Positive Youth Development (PYD). The development of asset is a concept that synthesis the factors of individual and context. Its existence serves to protect or prevent behaviors that can affect health and abl...
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| Format: | Conference or Workshop Item |
| Language: | English |
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2016
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/50741/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/50741/1/IISS_001_DrAAS.pdf |
| Summary: | This paper intends to analyse the contemporary assets of youth wellbeing in the context of Positive Youth Development (PYD). The development of asset is a concept that synthesis the factors of individual and context. Its existence serves to protect or prevent behaviors that can affect health and able to improve the opportunities and the PYD. The current study shows all internal assets (excluding assets of Healthy Lifestyle) showed a high score compared to external assets score. Nevertheless, Malaysian youth feel they lack the support of the members of the neighborhood, as well as less opportunity to engage in meaningful activities. This lead to the youth do not see themselves as part of the community members. This study involved 6822 respondents aged between 13-17 years from across the country using stratified random sampling technique. Thus, the development of youth no longer should be viewed as an isolated structure but it is even need to combine youth and communities through youth-adult partnerships. |
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