Individual and ecological assets and positive developmental trajectories among gang and community-based organization youth.
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.
Taylor
Carl S
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Department of Family and Child Ecology, Michigan State University, USA.
Lerner
Richard M
RM
von Eye
Alexander
A
Balsano
Aida Bilalbegovic
AB
Dowling
Elizabeth M
EM
Anderson
Pamela M
PM
Bobek
Deborah L
DL
Bjelobrk
Dragana
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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