Importance of Belongingness in Healthy Youth Development

Abstract

Youth development is the deliberate progression of providing all youth with the support, relationships, experiences, resources, and opportunities needed to become effective and proficient adults. The objective of this study was to understand the important role of belongingness in Subjective Well-being of adolescents. A sample of 197 adolescents from Eastern Uttar Pradesh, participated in this study. The extreme group strategy was used to identify subjects as high and low on the basis of the scores of Belongingness Motive Scale (Afroz S. & Tiwari PSN 2017). Subjective well-being scale (Roop Nagpal1982) was administered to get the data. The result of One Way Analysis of Variance showed that High and low groups of belongingness significantly differed on p<.01 level for positive affect, Negative affect, Rootedness & belongingness, Structural and Cohesive aspect of Family and Subjective well-being score. The result was congruent with the previous results and also added the existing literature that a strong sense of belongingness contributes to individual and community well-being (Cherry K. 2019).