Ph.D. Topic: An Explorative Study to Establish the Association between Leadership Skills, Resilience and Social Support
This project sets out to explore the association between leadership skills development, and resilience and social support. Young people aged 15-18 years involved in Foróige’s Youth leadership programme complete self-perception questionnaires on resilience, social supports and leadership skills to ascertain baseline, post and follow-up measures.
These will then be compared to a comparison group of young people not involved in the leadership programme to determine whether the leadership programme brings any associated benefits in leadership skills, resilience and social support. Interviews will be carried out with the highest skilled and lowest skilled young people to determine associated outcomes for these cohorts, as well as focus groups with programme parents and facilitators.
