Gordon Flett

So, and this is the thing about mattering is that I always say that it comes wrapped around the sense of hope.

They're strongly related in terms of research and people are very hopeful if they have a sense of mattering.

Just wanted to say one thing about self-efficacy that you were mentioning.

I was just reading last night some of the classic work by

Researcher named the charm on the feelings of young people feeling like they're either a pawn where they're being pushed around a board by other people with little significance or they're actually having a sense of agency.

And they call he contrasted people as pawns versus origins.

And I was reading this and I was thinking.

if you're a child that has a sense of mattering, you are going to fall into that origin category where people have said, we believe you can find the ways to address things.

You can overcome things.

We have a faith in you that you might not even have in yourself.

And I think that this is where a lot of the positive benefits of mattering come from this sense of, you know, I'm an origin.

I make things happen.

And not to the point becomes narcissistic.

That's where, you know, healthy respect for others and asking about others and how they're doing gives that sense of otherness.

And I thought it's too bad that the charm's not around these days to talk about this concept and how they would be connected, but origins and school situations, they did better.

They're more engaged, less likely to get into trouble in terms of, you know, violent behavior or truancy.

And consistently you see with mattering, including research with young children,

that not only is there a sense of hope, there's a very strong sense of agency that I can make things happen, which is why it's a key factor in terms of promoting resilience and also adaptability, which we've shown in some of our work.

Oh, yes, I do.

I believe that if there's a societal focus on mattering,