title: Exploring youth development with diverse children: correlates of risk, health, and thriving behaviors.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study explored the relationships between internal and external assets, risk behaviors, health behaviors, and thriving behaviors in diverse children.
  
  
  METHODS
  The strength of relationships existing between measures, differences between group means based on gender, grades earned, and school, and confidence interval (p < or = .05) were tested in a sample of 61 urban sixth graders.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Few assets were related to substance use. Assets were related to delinquency acts, health behaviors, and thriving indicators. Group differences between schools and gender and the total number of assets were noted.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Supporting assets are important to consider when nurses perform assessments and design interventions to support youths in their maturation processes.
authors.affiliation: Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA. smith.5764@osu.edu
authors.forename: Laureen H
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Barker
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001741:Black or African American / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005195:Family Relations; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012573:School Nursing