Scale Development for Positive Youth Leadership Identity: Developing a Factor Structure

• In Event: Identity and Leadership

Short Description

The capacity of youth to experience leadership development as well as the necessity of that development provides meaning to the current study, which tested the construct validity of a factor structure for positive youth leadership identity using factor analysis. Overall, exploratory factor analysis results suggested a six-factor structure to Positive Youth Leadership Identity — the explicit theory of oneself as a positive leader — related to leadership self-efficacy/leadership role occupancy, desire to develop into an effective leader, self-efficacy in a relational domain, empathy, hopeful goal attainment/task orientation at group level, and optimistic outlook of group work/collective orientation.

Participants

• Lindsay Hastings, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

• L.J. McElravy, University Of Nebraska - Lincoln