Abstract

This dataset contains the underlying data of the following article published in the Journal Health Education & Behaviour: Prati, G., Mazzoni, D., Guarino A., Albanesi, C., Cicognani, E., (in press) Evaluation of an Active Citizenship Intervention Based on Youth-Led Participatory Action Research. Health Education & Behaviour. The dataset consists of pretest-posttest control group quantitative data collected in Italy within Work Package 9 of the research project CATCH EyoU (Constructing AcTive CitizensHip with European YOUth: Policies, Practices, Challenges and Solutions). The sample consists of 69 Italian adolescents (35 in the intervention group; 34 in the control group) from 10th/11th grade between 15 and 17 years old who participated in two waves of data collection (Ntot cases= 94). They participated in the study on a voluntary basis and filled paper and online questionnaires, before and after the implementation of a Youth - Participatory Action Research (YPAR) in school. The data was used to evaluate the impact of YPAR in terms of European identification, social well-being, institutional trust, participation and political alienation. In particular, the following variables are included: age, group (intervention vs. control), gender, national or ethnical citizenship, SES status, European identification, political alienation, institutional trust, participation, social wellbeing and attitudes towards Europe. This data is made available for open access in compliance with H2020 Program regulation, following the guidelines stipulated by the Data Management Plan adopted by the CATCH-EyoU research project.