title: Development and validation of an instrument to assess future orientation and resilience in adolescence.
abstract: The study is aimed at providing the development and initial validation of the Design My Future (DMF), which may be administered in career counseling and research activities to assess adolescents' future orientation and resilience. Two studies with two independent samples of Italian adolescents were conducted to examine psychometric requisites of DMF. Specifically, in the first study, after developing items and examined the content validity, the factorial structure, reliability and discriminant validity of the DMF were tested. In the second study, the measurement invariance across gender, conducing a sequence of nested CFA models, was evaluated. Results showed good psychometric support for the instrument with Italian adolescents.
authors.affiliation: Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology, University of Padova, Italy. Electronic address: ilaria.dimaggio@phd.unipd.it.
authors.forename: Ilaria
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Di Maggio
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy. Electronic address: mariacristina.ginevra@unipd.it.
authors.forename: Maria Cristina
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Ginevra
authors.affiliation: Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology, University of Padova, Italy. Electronic address: laura.nota@unipd.it.
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Nota
authors.affiliation: Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology, University of Padova, Italy. Electronic address: salvatore.soresi@unipd.it.
authors.forename: Salvatore
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Soresi
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008297:Male; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D055500:Resilience, Psychological; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Adolescent; Future orientation; Resilience; Scale development