An investigation of the effects of a school-based intervention on feelings of personal expressiveness in multi-problem adolescent youth

摘要: OF THE THESIS AN INVESTIGATION EFFECTS A SCHOOL-BASED INTERVENTION ON FEELINGS PERSONAL EXPRESSIVENESS IN MULTI-PROBLEM ADOLESCENT YOUTH by Richard E. Albrecht Florida International University, 2005 Miami, Professor William M. Kurtines, Major This study was conducted to determine the effects of Changing Lives Program intervention on troubled adolescents' feelings personal expressiveness, believed be one domain positive identity development. Forty-three and twenty nonintervention comparison control participants were given a battery pre-, post-, follow-up assessments including Personally Expressive Questionnaire (Waterman, 1995), which used derive participants' expressiveness scores. Using Repeated Measures Analysis Multivariate (RMANOVA), significant four-way interaction Time X Condition Gender Ethnicity found relative Control, Roy's 0 = .166, F(2,47) 3.899, p < .027 indicating that did increase significantly group. Furthermore, results suggest differential outcomes based ethnicity, suggesting need for future with respect specificity mechanisms formation in differing ethnic subgroups.