Positive Youth Development: Thriving as the Basis of Personhood and Civil Society

By R. Lerner, Elizabeth M. Dowling, Pamela Anderson. Beyond the Self, 2003

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Theoretical issues pertinent to a dynamic, developmental systems understanding of positive youth development and the thriving process in such development are discussed. Thriving involves relative plasticity in human development and adaptive regulations of person-context relations. An integrated moral and civic identity and a commitment to society beyond the limits of one's own existence enable thriving youth to be agents both in their own, healthy development and in the positive enhancement of other people and of society. Thriving youth become generative adults through the progressive enhancement of behaviors that are valued in their specific culture and that reflect the universal structural value of contributing to civil society.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Safety Research, Social Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• The Chinese Positive Youth Development Scale (2007, background): “According to Lerner, Dowling, and Anderson (2003), a person would be regarded as “thriving” if “he or she was involved across time in such healthy, positive relations with his or her community” (p. 173) and on the path to “idealized personhood” (i.e., a person who makes valuable contributions to…”
• An integrative review of sport-based youth development literature (2017, background): “Similarly, family structures, community resources, peers and school environments have been highlighted as key aspects of developmental ecologies in the youth development literature (Lerner, Dowling, and Anderson 2003).”
• Human Thriving: A Conceptual Debate and Literature Review (2017, background): “An individual’s performance on such tasks is considered to reflect their level of functioning (cf. Sarkar & Fletcher, 2014) and, if a high-level of functioning is achieved, superior performance may orient an individual to achieve success (cf. Lerner et al., 2003; Scales et al., 2000).”
• Social and Emotional Learning in Adolescence: Testing the CASEL Model in a Normative Sample (2018, background): “Conceptually, the SEL model suggests that the component skills should be promoted in all youth, while the Five Cs PYD model focuses more on alignment of resources to strengths in a more individualized manner (Lerner et al., 2003).”