Increasing attention has been given to the problem of teen dating violence with more
research needed on mediating and moderating factors in the relationship between …

PURPOSE: To examine the relationship between adolescent sexual risk-taking and
perception of parental monitoring, frequency of parent–adolescent communication, and …

To explore predictors of adolescent participation in structured out-of-school activities,
various types of structured out-of-school time use and their correlates were examined …

The present research used data from Grades 8, 9, and 10 of the 4-H Study of Positive Youth
Development, a longitudinal study involving US adolescents, in order to better elucidate the …

Prior research has demonstrated that participation in out-of-school time activities is
associated with positive and healthy development among adolescents. However, fewer …

Although growing attention is being paid to the problem of teen dating violence, to date less
is known about perpetrators of victimization. The current article used a subset of 980 …

Hope for one's future and intentional self-regulation skills may be important in the
development of positive and problematic outcomes across adolescence. Using data from …

Using longitudinal data from Grades 8 to 11 of the 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development,
a longitudinal study involving US adolescents, we examined the developmental trajectories …

The growing consensus among developmental scientists argues that optimizing young
people's development requires much more than simply ensuring that they avoid negative …

Although the positive youth development (PYD) model initially assumed inverse links
between indicators of PYD and of risk/problem behaviors, empirical work in adolescence …