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Lerner, Richard M.; Lerner, Jacqueline V.; Urban, Jennifer Brown; Zaff, Jon – Applied Developmental Science, 2016
Whether discussing the process involved in positive youth development (PYD), articulating an approach (or philosophy) of youth programs associated with PYD, or enacting a program aimed at promoting PYD, ideas derived from relational developmental systems (RDS) metatheory are pertinent. Accordingly, we discuss the RDS metamodel and explain the…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Youth Programs, Social Justice, Evaluation Methods
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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
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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