Focusses on the major contexts of adolescents and young adults, namely, neighbourhoods and leisure locales, school and family, and the major themes of healthy psychosocial development, namely, competences and knowledge, prosocial behaviour, transcending problems of delinquency, civic engagement, identity, agency, and spirituality. Notes on Contributors vii Preface xi Section I Introduction 1(30) Approaches to Positive Youth Development: A View of the Issues 3(28) Rainer K. Silbereisen Richard M. Lerner Section II Models of Positive Development in Adolescence and Young Adulthood 31(78) Developmental Assets: An Overview of Theory, Research, and Practice 33(26) Peter L. Benson Civic Engagement as an Expression of Positive Youth Development 59(16) Lonnie Sherrod Empathy-Related Responding: Its Role in Positive Development and Socialization Correlates 75(18) Nancy Eisenberg Soci(et)al Scaffolding of Individual Growth across the Life Span 93(16) Jutta Heckhausen Section III Multiple Contexts of Positive Youth Development 109(116) Perceived Social Inequity and Responses to Conflict among Diverse Youth of Color: The Effects of Social and Physical Context on Youth Behavior and Attitudes 111(22) Davido Dupree Margaret Beale Spencer Suzanne Fegley Not You! Not Here! Not Now! 133(24) Jacquelynne S. Eccles Corinne Alfeld Life Chances and Opportunities in Times of Social Change: Evidence from Two British Birth Cohorts 157(16) Ingrid Schoon Social Control and Adolescent Development: A View from Life-Course Criminology 173(16) John H. Laub Elaine Eggleston Doherty Robert J. Sampson Social Support and Positive Development: Looking on the Bright Side of Adolescent Close Relationships 189(16) Karen S. Mooney Brett Laursen Ryan E. Adams The Long Way to Entrepreneurship: Personality, Parenting, Early Interests, and Competencies as Precursors for Entrepreneurial Activity among the `Termites' 205(20) Eva Schmitt-Rodermund Section IV Interventions and Social Policy 225(106) Adolescent Spirituality and Positive Youth Development: A Look at Religion, Social Capital, and Moral Functioning 227(16) Pamela Ebstyne King Youth Political Activism: Sources of Public Hope in the Context of Globalization 243(14) Constance Flanagan Amy Syvertsen Laura Wray-Lake Macrosocial Worries as a Source of Positive Youth Development: Results of a 20-Year Longitudinal Study and Policy Implications 257(20) Klaus Boehnke Daniel Fuss Mandy Boehnke From `I' to `We': Development of the Capacity for Teamwork in Youth Programs 277(16) Reed W. Larson Prevention against Substance Misuse: Life Skills and Positive Youth Development 293(18) Karina Weichold Building Resources in the Context of Socioeconomic Disadvantage: Lessons from Research for Social Policies 311(20) Cigdem Kagitcibasi Author Index 331(12) Subject Index 343