IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/rfa/journl/v4y2016i5p31-37.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Life Project for Adolescents: A Concept Analysis

Author

Listed:
  • Rosalva C. Barbosa-Martinez
  • Jose M. Ramirez-Aranda
  • Bertha Cecilia Salazar-Gonzalez
  • Raquel A. Benavides-Torres
  • Jane D. Champion
  • Julia Gallegos-Guajardo

Abstract

It is essential to identify protective factors during adolescence due to its high incidence on risk behaviors. One of these factors is to have a life project that influences adolescent decision-making. The concept of life project has mainly been linked to teen pregnancy, depression and suicide; however, some authors agree that the concept is not clearly defined. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to define the concept of adolescent life project, using the methodology developed by Walker and Avant for concept analysis. The following steps were followed are: select a concept, determining the purpose of analysis, identifying all uses of the concept, determining the defining attributes, identifying a model, a borderline and a contrary cases, identifying history and consequences of the concept, and finally defining empirical referents. After the analysis, the final definition of the concept of adolescent life project includes the set of desires, future plans and actions necessary to accomplish it that influence the adolescent decisions. Knowing the importance of this concept when working with adolescents may guide development more effective interventions.

Suggested Citation

  • Rosalva C. Barbosa-Martinez & Jose M. Ramirez-Aranda & Bertha Cecilia Salazar-Gonzalez & Raquel A. Benavides-Torres & Jane D. Champion & Julia Gallegos-Guajardo, 2016. "Life Project for Adolescents: A Concept Analysis," International Journal of Social Science Studies, Redfame publishing, vol. 4(5), pages 31-37, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:rfa:journl:v:4:y:2016:i:5:p:31-37
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://redfame.com/journal/index.php/ijsss/article/view/1490/1492
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: http://redfame.com/journal/index.php/ijsss/article/view/1490
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Aspirations; Adolescents; Concept formation; Life project;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • R00 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General - - - General
    • Z0 - Other Special Topics - - General

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:rfa:journl:v:4:y:2016:i:5:p:31-37. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Redfame publishing (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/cepflch.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.