The Contribution to Adolescent Well-Being Made by Nonfamily Adults: An Examination of Developmental Assets as Contexts and Processes.

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A new view: exploring positive youth development in elite sport contexts (2011, background): “These contexts include the presence of non-familial adults (i.e. coaches) who are crucial agents in promoting positive behaviours (Scales et al. 2006).”
Rap Music and the Empowerment of Today’s Youth: Evidence in Everyday Music Listening, Music Therapy, and Commercial Rap Music (2013, background): “Empirical support for indicators of positive youth development as valid and reliable constructs has increased, as has their correlation with inhibited risk outcomes (Bowers et al. 2010; Lewin-Bizan et al. 2010; Scales et al. 2006; Jelicic et al. 2007).”
How Effective Are Mentoring Programs for Youth? A Systematic Assessment of the Evidence (2011, background): “Under these circumstances, programs may help to offset a relative absence of opportunities for youth to receive mentoring through less formal routes, such as participation in extracurricular activities, religious institutions, and volunteerism (Lerner et al., 2005; Scales et al., 2006).”
The definition and preliminary measurement of thriving in adolescence (2009, background): “…shows that younger adolescents enjoy both quantitatively more and qualitatively deeper kinds of relationships with adults (Scales, 2003; Scales et al. 2006), it is reasonable to suspect that younger adolescents in middle school will do better than high-school youth on those thriving…”