Positive Youth Development: Theory, Research, and Applications†

By P. Benson, Peter C. Scales, S. Hamilton, Arturo Sesma. 2007

726 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Education, Safety Research, Social Psychology

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In Education

1. J. Lerner
2. R. Lerner
3. Peter C. Scales
4. P. Benson
5. E. Phelps
6. H. Jeličić
7. L. Oades
8. S. Vella

In Safety Research

1. R. Lerner
2. J. Lerner
3. E. Phelps
4. P. Benson
5. Peter C. Scales
6. S. Vella
7. H. Jeličić
8. Alexander Von Eye

In Social Psychology

1. R. Lerner
2. J. Lerner
3. Peter C. Scales
4. S. Vella
5. L. Oades
6. T. Crowe
7. E. Phelps
8. P. Benson

Citations in the corpus

• A Pilot Test of Transformational Leadership Training for Sports Coaches: Impact on the Developmental Experiences of Adolescent Athletes (2013, background): “3 INTRODUCTION Positive youth development is “a field of research and an arena of practice” that has at its core the promotion of growth and resilience in young people [1].”
• Relaciones entre empatía, conducta prosocial, agresividad, autoeficacia y responsabilidad personal y social de los escolares (2011, background): “Este resultado conjunto del modelo estructural para predecir la Responsabilidad coincide con el obtenido parcialmente por Mestre et al. (2002), Benson et al. (2006), McMahon et al. (2006), Eisenberg et al. (2005), Bandura (2006), Caprara y Steca (2005), De la Fuente et al. (2009), y Cecchini et al.…”
• Personal and social development in physical education and sports: A review study (2019, background): “The focus should be on the individual’s strengths (e.g. prosocial behaviour such as respecting others), rather than on problems that need to be fixed, that is, a negative approach (e.g. reducing antisocial behaviour such as bullying) (Benson et al., 2006; Holt, 2016; Lerner et al., 2005).”
• The definition and preliminary measurement of thriving in adolescence (2009, background): “…Youth Development, the most congenial scholarly locus for the marriage of positive psychology and youth work, arguably did not really expand until the late 1980s beyond its roots in the notion of youth health and well-being as fundamentally being the avoidance of risk (Benson et al., 2006).”
• Youth Developmental Assets in Global Perspective: Results from International Adaptations of the Developmental Assets Profile (2011, background): “PYD itself, although emerging as a subfield in developmental psychology only in the last two decades of the 20th century, claims lineage from the ecological systems theory of Bronfenbrenner (1979), and developmental systems theories as advanced by Schneirla (1957), Baltes and Baltes (1990), and more”
• Psychometric properties of the youth experience survey with young athletes (2012, neutral): “…with the principles of developmental system theories (Ford & Lerner, 1992; Thelen & Smith, 1998), new frameworks of youth development emerged (Benson, Scales, Hamilton, & Sesma, 2006; Danish, Fazio, Nellen, & Owen, 2002; Gould & Carson, 2008; Hellison, 2003; Jelicic, Bobek, Phelps, Lerner, &…”
• The Structure and Developmental Course of Positive Youth Development (PYD) in Early Adolescence: Implications for Theory and Practice. (2009, background): “…the PYD construct and positive and negative “outcomes” of such development They may follow theoretically predicted courses of change (e.g., see Benson et al., 2006; Lerner et al., 2009; Lerner & Steinberg, 2009) or more nuanced links among trajectories of positive and problematic outcomes…”