Educational Psychology doctoral student Hou Xie, and assistant professor Kaylin Ratner are co-authors of a paper that has been published in the Journal of Research on Adolescence.
Their article is titled "Establishing validity and measurement invariance of the Claremont Purpose Scale (CPS) among adolescents from diverse racial–ethnic backgrounds."
"This work is important because the meaning of “purpose” remains somewhat broad and contested, both in academic research and in everyday conversations," says Xie. "Our paper speaks to an inclusive understanding of purpose by suggesting that adolescents’ sense of purpose does not necessarily have to come from a grand beyond-the-self vision—a necessary, but restrictive, ingredient according to some leading scholars in the field. Instead, our work suggests that youth purpose may need to be defined in broader and more developmentally appropriate ways."
Read the full study here.
