Take A Hike! The Impact of Adventure-based Learning on Psychological Wellbeing in Troubled Youth.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Adventure based learning (ABL) programs involve experiential learning combined with outdoor recreation, including hiking, snowshoeing, biking, and kayaking. ABL activities push students outside of their comfort zone often resulting in learning and personal growth. A variety of psychological outcomes have been associated with participation in ABL programs, including improved self efficacy, self esteem, resilience, general well-being, and internalized locus of control, but many studies investigated short duration programs (<6 weeks); and fewer have considered the effects across multiple years. PURPOSE: To assess outcomes related to psychological wellbeing, deviant behaviours, and life skills over the course of a multi-year intensive ABL program in a group of at-risk teenagers. METHODS: Teenagers enrolled in a school-based program (43/5 m/f, 16.5±0.9 yr) completed questionnaires twice during the school year, and data was compared using paired t-tests. Questionnaires included validated measures of self esteem, self efficacy, wellbeing, distress, locus of control, substance (cigarette, alcohol, drug) use, and life effectiveness. RESULTS: In the full sample, end-of-year scores for self esteem (p = .03), wellbeing (p = .006), and emotional control (p < .001) increased from baseline. Additional analyses on subgroups of new (n = 26) and returning (n = 22) students revealed significant changes in wellbeing (p = .009) and emotional control (p = .001) only in students that were new to the program, but there were no significant changes (all p > .05) between pre- and post- measures in returning students. CONCLUSIONS: Students in a multi-year ABL program reported improved scores in variables related to positive mental health. These improvements occurred only during the first year of a multi-year program. Participants’ prior involvement in ABL and related programs should be considered when investigating mental health outcomes associated with ABL.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".