Conceptualizing and Modeling Individual and Ecological Asset Components of Thriving in Early Adolescence

By Christina Theokas, Jason B. Almerigi, R. Lerner, Elizabeth M. Dowling, P. Benson, Peter C. Scales, A. von Eye. 2005

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Education, Safety Research

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Promoting Positive Youth Development Through School-Based Social and Emotional Learning Interventions: A Meta-Analysis of Follow-Up Effects. (2017, background): “SEL interventions promote personal strengths in youth that overlap substantially with the PYD internal assets of social competencies, positive values, positive identity, and commitment to learning (Benson et al., 1998; Theokas et al., 2005).”
Developmental Typologies of Identity Formation and Adjustment in Female Emerging Adults: A Latent Class Growth Analysis Approach (2008, background): “Grotevant, 1987), identity may be thought of as a developmental asset that contributes to thriving and positive development in emerging adulthood (Theokas et al., 2005).”
The social ecology of resilience: addressing contextual and cultural ambiguity of a nascent construct. (2011, background): “In fact, the likelihood of good outcomes depends on the degree of threat posed by a changing environment (Theokas et al., 2005).”
Self-determination as a nutriment for thriving: Building an integrative model of human growth at work. (2014, background): “… I find myself learning often … I continue to learn more as time goes by … I see myself continually improving … I am not learning (reverse code) … I am developing a lot as a person”
The Structure and Developmental Course of Positive Youth Development (PYD) in Early Adolescence: Implications for Theory and Practice. (2009, unknown): “Six items measure positive identity (Theokas et al., 2005) and come from the Search Institute's Profile of Student Life-Attitudes and Behaviors Survey (PSL-AB; Benson et al., 1998).”
Reducing Academic Achievement Gaps: The Role of Community Service and Service-Learning (2006, methodology): “A composite SES proxy was created from student selfreports on two items, level of mother's education and whether the student lives in a single-parent family, common proxies for SES (Theokas et al., 2005).”
Using positive youth development to predict contribution and risk behaviors in early adolescence: Findings from the first two waves of the 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development (2007, methodology): “65 Gradesa (self-reported) (Benson et al., 1998; Theokas et al., 2005) School engagement (Benson et al.”
Developmental Assets: An Overview of Theory, Research, and Practice (2007, background): “Furthermore, she documents that both individual and ecological assets account for unique variance in thriving (Theokas et al., 2005).”
Youth Perceptions of Life at School: Contextual Correlates of School Connectedness in Adolescence (2006, result): “These findings are consistent with those of several recent studies (Lerner, Lerner, et al., 2005; Taylor et al., 2002; Theokas et al., 2005) related to the complex contribution contextual factors make to thriving behavior and other developmental outcomes.”
Human Thriving: A Conceptual Debate and Literature Review (2017, background): “…role also appears to extend to enabling thriving in adolescents, where parents may provide guidance in relation to an adolescent’s schooling (see, e.g., Theokas et al., 2005) and financial support for the child to access facilitative opportunities and resources (see, e.g., Weine et al., 2013).”
New Conceptual Frameworks for Student Engagement Research, Policy, and Practice (2013, background): “This line of research typically emphasizes and measures six important developmental competencies: competence, confidence, connection, character, caring and compassion, and contribution (Lerner et al., 2005; Roth & Brooks-Gunn, 2003; Theokas et al., 2005).”
Positive Youth Development, Participation in Community Youth Development Programs, and Community Contributions of Fifth-Grade Adolescents (2005, methodology): “Third, and concurrent with Wave 1 data collection, the factor structure of the internal and external assets, as measured by the Search Institutes’ PSL-AB measure, was reevaluated and restructured to reflect both empirical and substantive considerations (see Theokas et al., 2005).”
How Supportive of Their Specific Purposes Do Youth Believe Their Family and Friends Are? (2013, background): “Connection to family and friends has been a cornerstone of positive youth development research (Theokas et al., 2005) and practice (Eccles & Gootman, 2002).”
The definition and preliminary measurement of thriving in adolescence (2009, methodology): “Subsequent re-analysis of one large assets database found that 80% of the items used to measure the assets loaded significantly into one of 14 scales for middle-school youth and 16 for high-school youth that reflected both ‘individual’ and ‘ecological’ assets that echoed Search Institute's conceptua”
New Look at Social Support: A Theoretical Perspective on Thriving through Relationships (2014, background): “…all perspectives agree that it includes flourishing both personally and relationally (e.g., Benson & Scales, 2009; Bundick et al., 2010; Diener et al., 2010; Keyes, 2003, 2007; Lerner et al., 2010; Ryff & Singer, 1998, 2000, 2008; Seligman, Steen, Park, & Peterson, 2005; Theokas et al., 2005).”