1. Examining the Impact of Youth Hostel Association (YHA) Residential Programmes
Liz King
Dr. Kitrina Douglas,
Prof. Carlton Cooke,
Institute for Sport, Physical Activity & Leisure,
Leeds Beckett University

2. Background to yha

3. Relatedness and wellbeing

4. “positive and sustainable mental state that allows individuals, groups and nations to thrive and flourish”
(UK Royal Society, 2004)

5. Self-Determination Theory
Autonomy
Competence
Relatedness
Self-Determination Theory
(Ryan & Deci, 2000)
Self-determination Theory-

6. Previous literature

7. Activity slide

8. Basic psychological needs
Key Stage 2
(age 8-11)
Stirling Children’s Wellbeing Scale (Liddle & Carter, 2010)
Wellbeing
Key Stage 3
(age 11+)
Warwick Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale
(Tennant et al., 2007)
The Balanced Measure of Psychological Needs Scale
(Sheldon & Hilpert, 2012).
Basic psychological needs

9. Basic psychological needs
Wellbeing
Basic psychological needs
Gender
Duration of stay
Programme Leadership
Make simpler

10. Questionnaire Booklets

11. 191 Young people participated Aged 9-22 years
Five YHA locations (Peak District and Lake District)
45% females
40% males
15% did not specify
79% stayed for 2 nights
21% stayed for 4 nights
36%
YHA activities
64%
Independent activities

12. Wellbeing… Key Stage 2 (age 8-11) Key Stage 3+ (age 11+)
= no change in score
= 3% increase in score

13. Self-Determination Theory
Autonomy
Competence
Relatedness ✘
Self-Determination Theory
(Ryan & Deci, 2000) ✘ ✔

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15. Where next..?

16. Thank you for listening…
Please feel free to contact me:
@LizEKing
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17. References
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Charity Commission (2015) < [Accessed 12th July 2015]
Department of Health (2014). Wellbeing: Why it matters to health policy. Available from: < [Accessed 13th August 2014].
Fowler, J. H., & Christakis, N. A. (2008). Dynamic spread of happiness in a large social network: longitudinal analysis over 20 years in the Framingham Heart Study. Bmj, 337.
Liddle, I. and Carter, G. (2010). Emotional and Psychological Wellbeing in Children: The Standardisation of the Stirling Children’s Wellbeing Scale. [Online] Available from: < [Accessed 18th March 2014].
Matheson, J. (2011). Measuring National Well-being: Measuring What Matters. National Statistician's Reflections on the National Debate on Measuring National Well-being. London: ONS
Royal Society (2004)
Ryan, R. M., & Deci, E. L. (2000). Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being. American Psychologist, 55(1), pp
Ryan, R. M., Patrick, H., Deci, E. L., & Williams, G. C. (2008). Facilitating health behaviour change and its maintenance: Interventions based on self-determination theory. European Health Psychologist, 10(1), pp. 2-5.
Sheldon, K. M., & Hilpert, J. C. (2012). The balanced measure of psychological needs (BMPN) scale: An alternative domain general measure of need satisfaction. Motivation and Emotion, 36(4),pp
Tennant, R., Hiller, L., Fishwick, R., Platt, S., Joseph, S., Weich, S., Parkinson, J., Secker, J. and Stewart-Brown, S. (2007). The Warwick-Edinburgh mental well-being scale (WEMWBS): development and UK validation. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 5(1), p.63.
The Outward Bound Trust (2011). Social Impact Report 2011 [online]. Available from: < [Accessed 23rd October 2014].
The Outward Bound Trust (2014). Social Impact Report 2011 [online]. Available from: < [Accessed 15th November 2014].
The Wave Project (2014). Evaluation Report. Available from: < [Accessed 19th October 2014].