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All Kids Are Our Kids: What Communities Must Do to Raise Caring and Responsible Children and Adolescents
- P. Benson
- Economics
- 1997
Preface Introduction: From Peril to Possibility BRINGING OUT THE BEST IN ALL KIDS Developmental Assets: Forty Building Blocks of Human Development The State of Developmental Assets Among Youth…
Developmental assets: Measurement and prediction of risk behaviors among adolescents.
- N. Leffert, P. Benson, P. Scales, Anu Sharma, D. R. Drake, D. Blyth
- Psychology
- 1 December 1998
Anthropology in the Clinic: The Problem of Cultural Competency and How to Fix It
- A. Kleinman, P. Benson
- Medicine, PsychologyPLoS medicine
- 1 October 2006
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Positive Youth Development: Theory, Research, and Applications†
- P. Benson, P. Scales, S. Hamilton, Arturo Sesma
- Psychology
- 1 June 2007
This chapter describes positive youth development (PYD) as an emerging arena of applied developmental science. We show how PYD is both rooted in the theoretical traditions of developmental…
God Image as a Function of Self-Esteem and Locus of Control
A cognitive consistency framework was adopted to predict that a believer's level of selfesteem and his location on the locus of control dimension influence his description and definition of God. On a…
Contribution of Developmental Assets to the Prediction of Thriving Among Adolescents
- P. Scales, P. Benson, N. Leffert, D. Blyth
- Psychology
- 1 January 2000
This article investigated the contribution of developmental assets to the prediction of thriving behaviors among adolescents. The study was based on a sample of 6,000 youth in Grades 6-12 evenly…
Developmental Assets and Asset-Building Community: Conceptual and Empirical Foundations
- P. Benson
- Economics
- 2003
The issue that frames this volume is the strengthening of the human development infrastructure in American communities. This infrastructure is concerned with the patterns and rhythms of…
Religion and the Well‐Being of Adolescents
- M. Donahue, P. Benson
- Psychology
- 1 July 1995
A literature review of the relation between religiousness and adolescent well-being is presented, along with new analyses from a large adolescent data base. It is found that the average level of…
Beyond the "Village" Rhetoric: Creating Healthy Communities for Children and Adolescents
- P. Benson, N. Leffert, P. Scales, D. Blyth
- Psychology
- 1 September 1998
The role of community in child and adolescent development is emerging as a significant area of theoretical inquiry, research, and application. This article describes the development and utilization…
The definition and preliminary measurement of thriving in adolescence
- P. Benson, Peter C. Scales
- Psychology
- 1 January 2009
We describe ‘thriving’ as an under-utilized construct that can add value to theory, research, and application in adolescent development. We draw on developmental systems theories to suggest that…
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