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Do university students change after taking a subject on leadership and intrapersonal development?

  • Daniel T.L. Shek EMAIL logo und Cecilia M.S. Ma
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 17. Juli 2014

Abstract

The changes in university students after taking a subject on leadership and intrapersonal development (“Tomorrow’s Leaders” at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) are presented in this paper. Adopting a pre-experimental design (one group pretest-posttest design), 1029 students responded to a questionnaire assessing different aspects of development, including measures of positive youth development and life satisfaction. While students showed positive changes in self-determination, thriving and life satisfaction, their scores declined in some measures of positive youth development. The present findings are consistent with the previous findings that the subject is able to promote the holistic development of university students in Hong Kong, but it also generated some odd findings to be clarified in future studies.


Corresponding author: Daniel T.L. Shek, PhD, FHKPS, BBS, SBS, JP Chair Professor of Applied Social Sciences, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Room HJ407, Core H, Hunghom, Hong Kong, P.R. China, E-mail:

Acknowledgments

The preparation for this paper and the subject were financially supported by the Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. The authorship is equally shared by the two authors.

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Received: 2013-8-15
Accepted: 2013-9-10
Published Online: 2014-7-17
Published in Print: 2014-11-1

©2014 by De Gruyter

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