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Measuring Youth Perceptions of Being Known and Loved and Positive Youth Development: Cross-National Findings from Rwanda and El Salvador
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Tirrell, Jonathan M.; Dowling, Elizabeth M.; Kibbedi, Patience; Namurinda, Emmanuel; Iraheta, Guillermo; Dennis, Julia; Malvese, Katelyn; Abbasi-Asl, Roya; Williams, Kate; Lerner, Jacqueline V.; King, Pamela Ebstyne; Sim, Alistair T. R.; Lerner, Richard M. – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2023
Background: Dynamic, relational developmental systems-based models of development emphasize that developmentally-nurturant youth-adult relationships elicit in youth perceptions of being known and loved. Although such perceptions are foundations of positive youth development (PYD), such measures do not exist. Objective: We sought to create a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies, Interpersonal Relationship, Child Development
Exploring the Role of the "Big Three" Features of Effective Youth Development Programs in El Salvador: The Sample Case of Programs of Compassion International
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Tirrell, Jonathan M.; Hay, Samuel W.; Gansert, Patricia K.; Le, Trang U.; O'Neil, Bridget C.; Vaughn, Jennifer M.; Bishara, Leanne; Tan, Esther; Lerner, Jacqueline V.; King, Pamela Ebstyne; Dowling, Elizabeth M.; Williams, Kate; Iraheta, Guillermo; Sim, Alistair T. R.; Lerner, Richard M. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2021
Programs effective in promoting positive youth development (PYD) involve curricular features termed the Big Three: Positive and sustained adult-youth relationships; life-skill-building activities; and youth contribution and leadership opportunities. Data from 610 adolescents (50% female; M[subscript age] = 16.39 years, SD = 1.83) enrolled in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Relationship, Adults, Adolescents
Measuring Spirituality, Hope, and Thriving among Salvadoran Youth: Initial Findings from the Compassion International Study of Positive Youth Development
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Tirrell, Jonathan M.; Geldhof, G. John; King, Pamela Ebstyne; Dowling, Elizabeth M.; Sim, Alistair T. R.; Williams, Kate; Iraheta, Guillermo; Lerner, Jacqueline V.; Lerner, Richard M. – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2019
Background: The more than one billion children living in poverty worldwide are often marginalized from the resources needed for health and well-being, a situation that may create feelings of hopelessness and diminish chances for thriving. Compassion International (CI), a faith-based child-sponsorship organization committed to alleviating child…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Poverty, Religion, Program Effectiveness
Toward a Measure for Assessing Features of Effective Youth Development Programs: Contextual Safety and the "Big Three" Components of Positive Youth Development Programs in Rwanda
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Tirrell, Jonathan M.; Dowling, Elizabeth M.; Gansert, Patricia; Buckingham, Mary; Wong, Caitlin A.; Suzuki, Sara; Naliaka, Catherine; Kibbedi, Patience; Namurinda, Emmanuel; Williams, Kate; Geldhof, G. John; Lerner, Jacqueline V.; King, Pamela Ebstyne; Sim, Alistair T. R.; Lerner, Richard M. – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2020
Background: When delivered in a safe space, programs effective in promoting positive youth development (PYD) involve key features termed the Big Three: (1) Positive and sustained adult-youth relationships; (2) Life-skill-building activities; and (3) Opportunities for youth contribution and leadership. However, no measures exist in the literature…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth Programs, Skill Development, Program Evaluation
Structural Relations among Spirituality, Religiosity, and Thriving in Adolescence
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Dowling, Elizabeth M.; Gestsdottir, Steinunn; Anderson, Pamela M.; Von Eye, Alexander; Almerigi, Jason; Lerner, Richard M. – Applied Developmental Science, 2004
Using the randomly selected subsample of 1,000 youth (472 boys, M age = 12.2 years, SD = 1.5; 528 girls, M age = 12.1 years, SD = 1.4) drawn by Dowling, Getsdottir, Anderson, von Eye, and Lerner (in press) from a Search Institute (1984) archival data set, Young Adolescents and Their Parents (YAP), this research employed structural equation…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Religious Factors, Structural Equation Models, Spiritual Development
Thriving in Adolescence: The Voices of Youth-Serving Practitioners, Parents, and Early and Late Adolescents
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King, Pamela Ebstyne; Dowling, Elizabeth M.; Mueller, Ross A.; White, Krystal; Schultz, William; Osborn, Peter; Dickerson, Everett; Bobek, Deborah L.; Lerner, Richard M.; Benson, Peter L.; Scales, Peter C. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2005
This study assesses if correspondence existed between concepts scholars use to discuss positive youth development (PYD) and terms used by practitioners, parents, and youth to discuss exemplary PYD, or thriving. Qualitative and quantitative analyses of 173 interviews about the meaning of thriving found no significant commonality between the terms…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Adolescent Development, Late Adolescents, Competence
Positive Youth Development: Is There a Nomological Network of Concepts Used in the Adolescent Developmental Literature?
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King, Pamela Ebstyne; Schultz, William; Mueller, Ross A.; Dowling, Elizabeth M.; Osborn, Peter; Dickerson, Everett; Lerner, Richard M. – Applied Developmental Science, 2005
To gauge the status of connections between the research literature about adolescent development and current theoretical and applied work pertinent to the concept of positive youth development (PYD), we assessed whether the adolescent development literature from 1991 to 2003 reflected a network of terms associated with PYD. A list of 16 terms…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Networks, Correlation, Vocabulary
Internal and External Developmental Assets Among African American Male Gang Members
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Taylor, Carl S.; Lerner, Richard M.; von Eye, Alexander; Bobek, Deborah L.; Balsano, Aida Bilalbegovic; Dowling, Elizabeth M.; Anderson, Pamela M. – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2004
The presence of individual and ecological assets for positive development was assessed through data derived from individual interviews with 45 African American adolescent male members of inner-city Detroit gangs and 50 African American adolescent males living in the same communities but involved in community-based organizations (CBOs) aimed at…
Descriptors: Males, Adolescents, African Americans, Urban Youth
Positive Individual and Social Behavior among Gang and Nongang African American Male Adolescents
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Taylor, Carl S.; Lerner, Richard M.; von Eye, Alexander; Bobek, Deborah L.; Balsano, Aida B.; Dowling, Elizabeth M.; Anderson, Pamela M. – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2003
To explore potential bases of positive development among gang youth, attributes of positive individual and social behavior were assessed in individual interviews with 45 African American adolescent male members of inner-city Detroit gangs and 50 African American adolescent males from the same communities but involved in community-based…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Males, Juvenile Gangs, Attitude Measures