Positive youth development, participation in community youth development programs, and community contributions of fifth-grade adolescents: Findings from the first …

RM Lerner, JV Lerner, JB Almerigi… - The journal of early …, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com
The 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development (PYD), a longitudinal investigation of a
diverse sample of 1,700 fifth graders and 1,117 of their parents, tests developmental …

The five Cs model of positive youth development: A longitudinal analysis of confirmatory factor structure and measurement invariance

EP Bowers, Y Li, MK Kiely, A Brittian, JV Lerner… - Journal of youth and …, 2010 - Springer
The understanding of positive development across adolescence rests on having a valid and
equivalent measure of this construct across the breadth of this period of life. Does the …

The structure and developmental course of positive youth development (PYD) in early adolescence: Implications for theory and practice

E Phelps, S Zimmerman, AEA Warren, H Jeličić… - Journal of Applied …, 2009 - Elsevier
Using data from Grades 5 to 7 of the longitudinal 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development
(PYD), this research assessed the structure and development of PYD. Building on Grade 5 …

Using positive youth development to predict contribution and risk behaviors in early adolescence: Findings from the first two waves of the 4-H Study of Positive Youth …

H Jelicic, DL Bobek, E Phelps… - International journal …, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
Theories of positive youth development (PYD) regard such development as bases of both
community contributions and lessened likelihood of risk/problem behaviors. Using data from …

More than child's play: variable-and pattern-centered approaches for examining effects of sports participation on youth development.

N Zarrett, K Fay, Y Li, J Carrano, E Phelps… - Developmental …, 2009 - psycnet.apa.org
The authors used data from Grades 5 through 7 of the longitudinal 4-H Study of Positive
Youth Development to assess relations among sports participation, other out-of-school-time …

Active and engaged citizenship: Multi-group and longitudinal factorial analysis of an integrated construct of civic engagement

J Zaff, M Boyd, Y Li, JV Lerner, RM Lerner - Journal of Youth and …, 2010 - Springer
Civic participation does not necessarily equate to civic engagement. However, to date,
integrated measures of civic engagement that go beyond civic behaviors have not been …

An evaluation of the measurement properties of the five Cs model of positive youth development

RJ Conway, C Heary, MJ Hogan - Frontiers in psychology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
There is growing recognition of the need to develop acceptable measures of adolescent's
positive attributes in diverse contexts. The current study evaluated the measurement …

Nature as an ecological asset for positive youth development: Empirical evidence from rural communities

EP Bowers, LR Larson, BJ Parry - Frontiers in psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Despite increasing emphasis on youth contact with nature and associated benefits, research
has not examined the direct relationship between adolescents' nature-based experiences …

Longitudinal analysis of a very short measure of positive youth development

GJ Geldhof, EP Bowers, MK Mueller… - Journal of Youth and …, 2014 - Springer
As developmental scientists cease to perceive adolescence as a period of inevitable turmoil
and adopt the Positive Youth Development (PYD) perspective, psychometrically sound …

The development of academic competence among adolescents who bully and who are bullied

L Ma, E Phelps, JV Lerner, RM Lerner - Journal of applied developmental …, 2009 - Elsevier
Using data from the first three waves (Grades 5, 6, and 7) of the 4-H Study of Positive Youth
Development, this study assessed if being a bully or being a victim accounts for an …