Indicators of child well-being: The promise for positive youth development
Indicators of child well-being: The promise for positive youth development
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DOI：
10.1177/0002716203260103
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发表时间：
2004-01-01
影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
Brown, B
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作者：
Moore, KA;Lippman, L;Brown, B
在目前的美国指标体系中，衡量儿童福祉的措施主要集中在负面结果和问题上。我们测量和跟踪那些成年人希望防止的行为。在大多数情况下，指标体系没有监测积极的发展和成果。这种儿童福利指标体系缺乏以科学为基础的衡量体系所需的广度和平衡性。此外，它缺乏在青少年本身和成年人之间产生共鸣的各种构象的测量方法。需要在多个发展领域采取措施，包括教育成就和认知成就、健康和安全、社会和情感发展以及自给自足。积极的结果通常是批评，强调严格的概念化和测量的重要性，包括概念清晰度和面部有效性，适合年龄的测量和心理测量的严谨性。此外，需要以政策制定者和公众能够理解的方式来提出结构和措施，并在不同的子组和治理级别之间工作。理想情况下，可比较的措施将用于指标、方案评估以及儿童和青少年发展的基础研究。
In the current U.S. indicators system, measures of child well-being focus primarily on negative outcomes and problems. We measure and track those behaviors that adults wish to prevent. For the most part, the indicators system does not monitor positive development and outcomes. Such a system of child well-being indicators lacks the breadth and balance required in a science-based measurement system. Moreover, it lacks measures of the kinds of constructs that resonate among adolescents themselves and adults. Measures are needed for multiple domains of development, including educational achievement and cognitive attainment, health and safety, social and emotional development, and self-sufficiency. Positive outcomes are often critique highlighting the importance of rigorous conceptualization and measurement, including conceptual clarity and face validity, age appropriate measures, and psychometric rigor. In addition, constructs and measures need to be presented in ways that are understandable to policy makers and the public and that work across varied subgroups and levels of governance. Ideally, comparable measures will be used for indicators, for program evaluation, and in basic research studies of child and adolescent development.