Many children are reared in less than ideal family conditions (eg, poverty, violence,
substance abuse, family dissonance, family or personal illnesses). Situations such as these …

This article discusses conceptual issues and reviews knowledge about direct and buffering
protective factors in the development of youth violence. Direct protective factors predict a low …

In Negotiating Opportunities, Jessica McCrory Calarco argues that the middle class has a
negotiated advantage in school. Drawing on five years of ethnographic fieldwork, Calarco …

A landmark publication in the social sciences, Linda Lindsey's Gender is the most
comprehensive textbook to explore gender sociologically, as a critical and fundamental …

▪ Abstract Adolescent resilience research differs from risk research by focusing on the assets
and resources that enable some adolescents to overcome the negative effects of risk …

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 …

The fourth edition of this successful textbook provides an up-to-date introduction to all of the
key features of adolescent development. While drawing on the North American literature on …

This study examined relations between effortful control, parent–adolescent conflict, and
teacher–student relationships and the concurrent and longitudinal impact of these factors on …

Individuals who attain a higher education, whereas both their parents did not, embody the
realization of social mobility. They are referred to as first‐generation higher education …

Engagement in school is crucial for academic success and school completion. Surprisingly
little research has focused on the relationship between student engagement and …