This book is designed to summarize, integrate, and evaluate current research on adolescent development. It contains the following chapters: (1) "Paths to Adulthood: Adolescent Diversity in Contemporary America" (Ramond Montemayor); (2) "Competence among Urban Adolescents in Poverty: Multiple Forms, Contexts, and Developmental Processes" (Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Edward Seidman); (3) "Rural Youth: Ecological and Life Course Perspectives" (Lisa J. Crockett, Michael J. Shanahan and Juila Jackson-Newsom); (4) "Growing Up in Appalachia: Ecological Influences on Adolescent Development" (Stephan M. Wilson and Gary W. Peterson); (5) "Indian Adolescence: Opportunity and Challenge" (Fred Beauvais); (6) "Healthy Adjustment in Mexican American and Other Hispanic Adolescents" (Felipe Gonzales Castro, Gina R. Boyer, and Hector G. Balcazar); (7) "Asian American Adoelscents: A Research Review To Dispel the Model Minority Myth" (Frederick T. L. Leong, Ruth K. Chao, and Erin E. Hardin); (8) "Ecological Correlates of the Social and Emotional Adjustment of African American Adolescents" (Ronald D. Taylor, Leanne Jacobson, and Debra Roberts); (9) "Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Studying Minority Adolescents" Michael Cunningham and Margaret Beale Spencer); and (10) "The Variety of Adolescent Experiences" (Raymond Montemayor). A name index and a subject index are provided. (MKA)