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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Observed Ecological Assets in Families, Schools, and Neighborhoods: Conceptualization, Measurement, and Relations with Positive and Negative Developmental Outcomes
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Theokas, Christina; Lerner, Richard M. – Applied Developmental Science, 2006
The relations among observed ecological assets in youth's families, schools, and neighborhoods with positive and negative developmental outcomes were assessed with a sample of 646 fifth-grade youth. The majority of participants were Latino (37.5%) or European American (35.5%) and lived in 2-parent families. Ecological asset indicators were…
Descriptors: Child Development, Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Social Environment
Positive Youth Development: Is There a Nomological Network of Concepts Used in the Adolescent Developmental Literature?
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King, Pamela Ebstyne; Schultz, William; Mueller, Ross A.; Dowling, Elizabeth M.; Osborn, Peter; Dickerson, Everett; Lerner, Richard M. – Applied Developmental Science, 2005
To gauge the status of connections between the research literature about adolescent development and current theoretical and applied work pertinent to the concept of positive youth development (PYD), we assessed whether the adolescent development literature from 1991 to 2003 reflected a network of terms associated with PYD. A list of 16 terms…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Networks, Correlation, Vocabulary
Structural Relations among Spirituality, Religiosity, and Thriving in Adolescence
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Dowling, Elizabeth M.; Gestsdottir, Steinunn; Anderson, Pamela M.; Von Eye, Alexander; Almerigi, Jason; Lerner, Richard M. – Applied Developmental Science, 2004
Using the randomly selected subsample of 1,000 youth (472 boys, M age = 12.2 years, SD = 1.5; 528 girls, M age = 12.1 years, SD = 1.4) drawn by Dowling, Getsdottir, Anderson, von Eye, and Lerner (in press) from a Search Institute (1984) archival data set, Young Adolescents and Their Parents (YAP), this research employed structural equation…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Religious Factors, Structural Equation Models, Spiritual Development
Promoting Promotion in the Development of Prevention Science.
Lerner, Richard M. – Applied Developmental Science, 2001
The history of prevention science reflects a commitment to using scholarship to improve quality of life for children and families. The integration of prevention and promotion approaches facilitates the design and delivery of policies and programs that may be effective in enhancing healthy youth development in directions that advance civil society.…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Developmental Programs, Diffusion (Communication), Family Counseling