Covering our Bases: A Military 4-H Youth Development Program

Youth development program participation and intentional self-regulation skills: contextual and individual bases of pathways to positive youth development.

The present research used data from Grades 8, 9, and 10 of the 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development, a longitudinal study involving U.S. adolescents, in order to better elucidate the process through which the strengths of youth and the ecological resources promoting healthy development (such as out-of-school-time programs) may contribute to thriving. We examined the relationship between adol...

Our Youth, Our Future: Moving Forward to Address Youth Development in Kenya

Kenya is a young nation, with 75 percent of its population being under the age of 30 years and 22 percent being between the ages of 15 to 24 years. For Kenyan young people – and for young people worldwide – the critical transition from childhood to young adulthood is delicate and challenging and is dependent on support and guidance from the family, community, school, and society at large. Adole...

Covering all the bases.

Skin: Uncovering Our Covering

Michele de Luca (University of Modena, Italy) concluded his talk then paused and looked out across the auditorium. The response of those attending the 2017 Congress of the European Society of Gene & Cell Therapy (Berlin, Germany) was immediate and rapturous. De Luca had just presented a case study in which a seven-year-old boy suffering from a devastating skin disease had been saved by regenera...

Intentional self-regulation and positive youth development in early adolescence: findings from the 4-h study of positive youth development.

In this research, the authors examined the development of intentional self-regulation in early adolescence, which was operationalized through the use of a measure derived from the model of selection, optimization, and compensation (SOC). This model describes the individual's contributions to mutually influential relations between the person and his or her context. Through use of data from a lon...