Individual and ecological assets and positive developmental trajectories among gang and community-based organization youth

Carl S Taylor; Richard M Lerner; Alexander von Eye; Aida Bilalbegovic Balsano; Elizabeth M Dowling; Pamela M Anderson; Deborah L Bobek; Dragana Bjelobrk

doi:10.1002/yd.16

Individual and ecological assets and positive developmental trajectories among gang and community-based organization youth

New Dir Youth Dev. 2002 Fall:(95):57-72. doi: 10.1002/yd.16.

Authors

Carl S Taylor¹, Richard M Lerner, Alexander von Eye, Aida Bilalbegovic Balsano, Elizabeth M Dowling, Pamela M Anderson, Deborah L Bobek, Dragana Bjelobrk

Affiliation

¹ Department of Family and Child Ecology, Michigan State University, USA.

PMID: 12448286
DOI: 10.1002/yd.16

Abstract

The Search Institute framework for conceptualizing developmental assets was used in a longitudinal study of African American male youth involved in gangs or in community-based organizations (CBOs) serving youth. Analyses of intraindividual change indicated that individual and ecological assets are linked to positive developmental trajectories among these youth.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Achievement
Adolescent
Adolescent Behavior / ethnology*
Black or African American / psychology*
Community Networks*
Group Processes
Human Development*
Humans
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Models, Organizational*
Models, Theoretical
Program Development
Social Problems / ethnology*
United States