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Abstract
Leadership and developmental scholars have highlighted the need to enhance youth leadership skills. Yet, research that explains youths’ perceptions of how and when role models influences their leadership growth processes is limited. To address these gaps and begin to develop an understanding of youths’ perspectives, we employed a qualitative, grounded theory design and interviewed emerging adults (N = 23) about their perceptions of their own leadership development. Our analysis resulted in a role model–driven framework for youth leadership development. This framework illustrates participants’ descriptions of the leadership growth process between adolescence and emerging adulthood, including the ways in which youths’ motivation to lead was facilitated by the qualities of relational role models, their knowledge of opportunities, the relational role models’ beliefs in youths potential, and the fact that they were inspired by positional role models.
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Author Biographies
Jill R. Bowers is a researcher in the Family Resiliency Center in the Department of Human and Community Development at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Her research focuses on online program development and evaluation, specifically online positive youth development programs for adolescents and emerging adults.
David M. Rosch serves as an assistant professor in the College of Agriculture, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences (ACES) at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. His particular areas of interest include programmatic training in youth leadership development and the accurate assessment of leadership effectiveness. He earned his doctorate in higher education administration from Syracuse University, a master’s in student affairs in higher education from Colorado State University, and a bachelor’s degree from Binghamton University, NY.
Daniel A. Collier is a graduate student in the Education Policy, Organization and Leadership doctoral program. He is particularly interested in student leadership development, ethical leadership practices of administration, and evaluation of educational workplace policy, and currently serves as a research assistant in the Illinois Leadership Laboratory through the Agriculture Education Department.
