title: Individual and ecological assets and positive developmental trajectories among gang and community-based organization youth.
abstract: The Search Institute framework for conceptualizing developmental assets was used in a longitudinal study of African American male youth involved in gangs or in community-based organizations (CBOs) serving youth. Analyses of intraindividual change indicated that individual and ecological assets are linked to positive developmental trajectories among these youth.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family and Child Ecology, Michigan State University, USA.
authors.forename: Carl S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Taylor
authors.forename: Richard M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Lerner
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: von Eye
authors.forename: Aida Bilalbegovic
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Balsano
authors.forename: Elizabeth M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Dowling
authors.forename: Pamela M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Anderson
authors.forename: Deborah L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Bobek
authors.forename: Dragana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bjelobrk
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000208:ethnology*; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D019058:Community Networks; D006126:Group Processes; D006803:Human Development; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D017146:Models, Organizational; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D016730:Program Development; D012940:Social Problems / Q000208:ethnology*; D014481:United States