Adolescent Diversity in Ethnic, Economic, and Cultural Contexts

This book summarizes and integrates theory and research on adolescents from a diversity of ethnic, economic, and geographic contexts. The book aims to present a more balanced picture of these understudied and misunderstood adolescents by focusing on positive, healthy development.

List of contents

Paths to Adulthood - R Montemayor
Adolescent Diversity in Contemporary America
Competence among Urban Adolescents in Poverty - H Yoshikawa and E Seidman
Multiple Forms, Contexts and Developmental Processes
Rural Youth - L Crockett, M Shanahan and J Jackson-Newsom
Ecological and Life Course Perspectives
Growing Up in Appalachia - S Wilson and G Peterson
Ecological Influences on Adolescent Development
Indian Adolescence - F Beauvais
Opportunity and Challenge
Healthy Adjustment in Mexican American and Other Hispanic Adolescents - F Castro, G Boyer and H Balcazar
Asian American Adolescents - F Leong, R Chato and E Hardin
A Research Review to Dispel the Model Minority Myth
Ecological Correlates of the Social and Emotional Adjustment of African American Adolescents - R Taylor, L Jacobsen and D Roberts
Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Studying Minority Adolescents - M Cunningham and M Beale Spencer
The Variety of Adolescent Experiences - R Montemayor

About the author

Parent-Adolescent Relations, Ohio State University.Personality and Social Development, University of Guelph.Prevention, Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut, New London, CT.

Summary

This book summarizes and integrates theory and research on adolescents from a diversity of ethnic, economic, and geographic contexts. The book aims to present a more balanced picture of these understudied and misunderstood adolescents by focusing on positive, healthy development.

Product details

• Authors: Gerald R. Adams, Thomas P. Gullotta, Raymond Montemayor
• Assisted by: Gerald R. Adams (Editor), Thomas P. Gullotta (Editor), Raymond Montemayer (Editor), Raymond Montemayor (Editor), Raymond J. Montemayor (Editor)
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.01.2000
• EAN: 9780761921264
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-2126-4
• No. of pages: 306
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 222 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 519 g
• Series: Advances in Adolescent Develop; Advances in Adolescent Development; Advances in Adolescent Develop; Advances in Adolescent Development
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories