Empowerment is intrinsically linked to youth-adult partnership. Christens and his colleagues have conducted studies to create a valid and useful way of measuring empowerment in Malaysian Validation of a Sociopoitical Control Scale for Youth.
Mitra delves into this issue again with the article Collaborating with Students: Building Youth-Adult Partnerships in Schools. The article examines how youth-adult partnerships can help improve understanding of school-based collaborations and examines contexts that enable Y-AP in schools including: fostering trust and respect among group members, creating meaningful (not equal) roles, building the capacity for youth and adults to successfully fulfill their roles, and establishing a group size
