Twenty years after Snyder's seminar article on hope theory, research on hope has moved in
many directions and has spanned multiple spheres of personal life and social life, including …

Social–emotional skills have been shown to be beneficial for many important life outcomes
for students. However, previous studies on the topic have suffered from many issues (eg …

Background: Mental health during a person's adolescence plays a key role in setting the
stage for their mental health over the rest of their life. Hence, initiatives that promote …

Positive youth development (PYD) models are widespread, but the empirical evidence for
them is primarily nomothetic (ie, investigations of universal patterns). Contemporary …

This chapter presents ideas from philosophers and psychologists throughout history about
why scholars should study hope and how it should be defined in the science of positive …

The present study was designed to examine trajectories of personal identity coherence and
confusion among Hispanic recent-immigrant adolescents, as well as the effects of these …

Youth development programs, such as the Boy Scouts of America, aim to develop positive
attributes in youth (eg, character virtues, prosocial behaviors, and positive civic actions) …

Because addiction is a socially isolating disease, social support for recovery is an important
element of treatment planning. This study examines the relationship between social …

Most research on mental health in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and
intellectual disability (ID) has focused on deficits. We examined individual (ie …

We examined whether students' experiences in their Gender-Sexuality Alliances (GSAs)
over the school year predicted positive development or thriving in the form of higher relative …