Measuring Spirituality, Hope, and Thriving Among Salvadoran Youth: Initial Findings from the Compassion International Study of Positive Youth Development

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan M. Tirrell ◽  
G. John Geldhof ◽  
Pamela Ebstyne King ◽  
Elizabeth M. Dowling ◽  
Alistair T. R. Sim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Youth Development ◽  
Positive Youth Development ◽  
International Study ◽  
Compassion International

scholarly journals Longitudinal Research About, and Program Evaluations of, Positive Youth Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Methodological Issues and Options

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 100-123
Author(s):  
Richard M. Lerner ◽  
Jonathan M. Tirrell ◽  
Patricia K. Gansert ◽  
Jacqueline V. Lerner ◽  
Pamela Ebstyne King ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Youth Development ◽  
Positive Youth Development ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
International Study ◽  
Positive Development ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
Methodological Considerations ◽  
Low And Middle Income

The study of positive youth development (PYD) requires theory-based methodological considerations pertinent to measurement, research and program design, and data analysis. We outline the appropriate steps that researchers and program evaluators must enact to address these methodological foci in their respective attempts to describe, explain, and optimize the course of positive development among diverse youth around the world. We focus on longitudinal (developmental) research designed to evaluate programs promoting PYD in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where life challenges are shaped by multiple adverse situations associated with racism, poverty, gender inequalities, political inequities, and the absence of adequate health and medical resources. Using the Compassion International Study of PYD as a sample case, we suggest how researchers and practitioners might collaborate to enact rigorous, theory-based research aimed at promoting PYD among youth living in LMICs and worldwide.

Studying Positive Youth Development in Different Nations

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard M. Lerner ◽  
Jacqueline V. Lerner ◽  
G. John Geldhof ◽  
Steinunn Gestsdóttir ◽  
Pamela Ebstyne King ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Youth Development ◽  
Positive Youth Development ◽  
Adolescent Development ◽  
International Programs ◽  
Developmental Systems ◽  
Healthy Development ◽  
Strength Based ◽  
Relational Developmental Systems ◽  
Compassion International ◽  
Bidirectional Relations

International interest is growing concerning using strength-based models of adolescent development to understand how mutually influential relations between individuals and their key settings may be a basis for positive, healthy development. Bidirectional relations models are linked to relational developmental systems (RDS) metatheory, with a focus on the positive youth development (PYD) model, the most used ininternational PYD-related research and programs. A three-nation, counterfactual, comparative, longitudinal study is described to understand if Compassion International programs enhance thriving of the world’s poorest youth. RDS metatheory ideas point to the need for longitudinal studies using measures reflecting reliability, validity, and invariance across people, time, and place. This research should be framed by the “specificity principle” to identify individual and setting combinations that capitalize on the strengths of youth and place young people on a thriving trajectory.

scholarly journals Enhancing the International Study of Positive Youth Development: Process, Specificity, and the Sample Case of Character Virtues

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 402-422
Author(s):  
Richard M. Lerner ◽  
Pamela Jervis ◽  
Marc H. Bornstein
Keyword(s):  
Youth Development ◽  
Positive Youth Development ◽  
International Study ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Developmental Systems ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Sample Case ◽  
Positive Character

This article focuses on the interplay of research and practice (research⇔practice integration) in advancing international efforts to understand and enhance positive youth development (PYD). We discuss 3 facets of PYD research and application that have cross-cutting relevance to theory, to the use of theory for designing principles of PYD programs, and to evaluating whether specific instances of youth development programs have features that promote PYD. Using dynamic, relational developmental-systems-based concepts, we discuss the process of development involved in PYD, the use of the specificity principle to frame research and practice and, as a sample case illustrating how PYD research and practice can be advanced through the use of the specificity principle, we focus on one facet of PYD, that is, positive character, or character virtues. We point to important future directions for further illuminating the specificity of PYD process through assessing the developmental neurobiology of PYD, and we emphasize the important contributions that PYD research and practice integration can make worldwide to enhancing youth contributions to equity, social justice, and democracy.

Positive youth development: Assessing the interaction between intentional self-regulation and motivation

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. John Geldhof ◽  
Michelle B. Weiner ◽  
Jennifer P. Agans ◽  
Megan Kiely Mueller ◽  
Richard M. Lerner
Keyword(s):  
Youth Development ◽  
Positive Youth Development ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Intentional Self Regulation
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