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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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Exemplifying the Integrations of the Relational Developmental System: Synthesizing Theory, Research, and Application to Promote Positive Development and Social Justice
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Lerner, Richard M.; Overton, Willis F. – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2008
The future of civil society in the world rests on the promotion of positive development and a commitment to positive and socially just community contributions by the young (Lerner, 2004). Adolescents represent, at any point in history, the generational cohort that must be prepared to assume the quality of leadership of self, family, community, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Probability, Youth, Role
Internal and External Developmental Assets Among African American Male Gang Members
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Taylor, Carl S.; Lerner, Richard M.; von Eye, Alexander; Bobek, Deborah L.; Balsano, Aida Bilalbegovic; Dowling, Elizabeth M.; Anderson, Pamela M. – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2004
The presence of individual and ecological assets for positive development was assessed through data derived from individual interviews with 45 African American adolescent male members of inner-city Detroit gangs and 50 African American adolescent males living in the same communities but involved in community-based organizations (CBOs) aimed at…
Descriptors: Males, Adolescents, African Americans, Urban Youth
Positive Individual and Social Behavior among Gang and Nongang African American Male Adolescents
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Taylor, Carl S.; Lerner, Richard M.; von Eye, Alexander; Bobek, Deborah L.; Balsano, Aida B.; Dowling, Elizabeth M.; Anderson, Pamela M. – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2003
To explore potential bases of positive development among gang youth, attributes of positive individual and social behavior were assessed in individual interviews with 45 African American adolescent male members of inner-city Detroit gangs and 50 African American adolescent males from the same communities but involved in community-based…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Males, Juvenile Gangs, Attitude Measures
Positive Individual and Social Behavior among Gang and Nongang African American Male Adolescents.
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Taylor, Carl S.; Lerner, Richard M.; von Eye, Alexander; Bobek, Deborah L.; Balsano, Aida B.; Dowling, Elizabeth; Anderson, Pamela M. – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2003
Positive individual and social behaviors were assessed among male gang members and males involved in community-based organizations aimed at promoting positive youth development. Correlations of attribute scores were more often significant for the gang than for the nongang youth. Approximately one-quarter of the gang youth had total positive…
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Blacks
Understanding Developmental Systems in Adolescence: Implications for Methodological Strategies, Data Analytic Approaches, and Training.
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Lerner, Richard M.; Lerner, Jacqueline V.; De Stefanis, Imma; Apfel, Alison – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2001
Discusses contemporary theories of adolescence, stressing developmental systems models that integrate individual and contextual levels of analysis. Maintains that adolescence should be studied with multivariate-longitudinal designs, change-sensitive measures, and data analytic strategies capitalizing on triangulation across quantitative and…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Data Analysis, Research