During adolescence, a positive outlook toward the future (ie, future orientation) can protect
youth from the risks conferred by childhood adversity. Research to date, however, has …

Drawing on the importance of future orientation for adolescent development this analysis
presents a model describing how future orientation is affected by high challenge (or …

Maltreatment is associated with risk for a wide range of socio-emotional and behavioral
problems in adolescence. Despite this risk, many maltreated youth adjust well through the …

Hopelessness is implicated in multiple psychological disorders. Little is known, however,
about the trajectory of hopelessness during adolescence or how emergent future orientation …

Adolescents who endorse greater levels of future orientation report greater well-being over
time, but we do not know the mechanism by which this happens. The present longitudinal …

The association between future orientation and problem behaviors has received extensive
empirical attention; however, previous work has not considered school contextual influences …

Future orientation has been conceptualized in a variety of ways across literatures in
psychology, sociology, education, and vocation. The lack of a shared definition and …

African American youth are frequently confronted by economic and structural hardships,
which can often suggest that their lives do not matter. This study examined the extent to …

Previous research has linked higher levels of hopelessness about one's future to violent
behavior during adolescence; however, little is known about this relationship over time for …

Multidisciplinary research has supported a relationship between adolescent future
orientation (the ability to set future goals and plans) and positive adolescent health and …