What Do Children Need to Flourish?: Conceptualizing and Measuring Indicators of Positive Development (The Search Institute Series on Developmentally Attentive Community and Society Book 3)

Regardless of its validity, many adults share a belief that today’s youth face an inauspicious future. Drugs, sex, violence, disintegration of the nuclear family, technology that replaces interpersonal relationships—that’s what you hear in the news. The media, through its dramatization of the dangers and risks children confront and pose, have created a well-established image of disenfranchised, hostile, and often-destructive children and adolescents. This image ignores the many children who are thriving as well as the possibility of positive outcomes for children and youth. With children comprising roughly 30% of the global population—almost 2 billion children worldwide—understanding exactly what leads children to grow into confident, caring, responsible adults is an issue that belongs at the forefront of every nation’s agenda. Increasingly, it is understood that we need not only to prevent negative outcomes but to promote positive outcomes. __What Do Children Need to Flourish? Conceptualizing and Measuring Indicators of Positive Development__, part of the Search Series on Developmentally Attentive Community and Society, focuses on how scholars and practitioners can begin to build rigorous measures of the healthy behaviors and attitudes that result in positive outcomes for children and youth. The volume is presented in five parts: - Introduction and conceptual framework. - Positive formation of the self—character, values, spirituality, life satisfaction, hope, and ethnic identity. - Healthy habits, positive behaviors, and time use. - Positive relationships with parents and siblings. - Positive attitudes and behaviors toward learning and school environments. - Enacting positive values and behaviors in communities. __What Do Children Need to Flourish? Conceptualizing and Measuring Indicators of Positive Development__ is an important volume for researchers and practitioners—in fact, for anyone interested and involved in working with children and adolescents. What Do Children Need To Flourish? Conceptualizing And Measuring Indicators Of Positive Development, Part Of The Search Series On Developmentally Attentive Community And Society, Focuses On How Scholars And Practitioners Can Begin To Build Rigorous Measures Of The Positive Behaviors And Attitudes That Result In Positive Outcomes For Children And Youth.--jacket. Introduction And Conceptual Framework / Kristin Anderson Moore And Laura H. Lippman -- The Values In Action Inventory Of Character Strengths For Youth / Nansook Park And Christopher Peterson -- Adolescent Spirituality / Peter L. Benson, Peter C. Scales, Arturo Sesma Jr., And Eugene C. Roehlkepartain -- Children's Life Satisfaction / E. Scott Huebner, Shannon M. Suldo, And Robert F. Valois -- Measuring Hope In Children / C.r. Snyder -- The Ethnic Identity Scale / Adriana J. Umaña-taylor -- Leisure Time Activities In Middle Childhood / Sandra L. Hofferth And Sally C. Curtin -- Healthy Habits Among Adolescents: Sleep, Exercise, Diet, And Body Image / Kathleen Mullan Harris, Rosalind Berkowitz King, And Penny Gordon-larsen -- Adolescent Participation In Organized Activities / Bonnie L. Barber, Margaret R. Stone, And Jacquelynne S. Eccles -- Positive Interpersonal And Intrapersonal Functioning: An Assessment Of Measures Among Adolescents / Brian K. Barber --^ A Scale Of Positive Social Behaviors / Sylvia R. Epps, Seoung Eun Park, Aletha C. Huston, And Marika Ripke -- The Parent-adolescent Relationship Scale / Elizabeth C. Hair, Kristin Anderson Moore, Sarah B. Garrett, Akemi Kinukawa, Laura H. Lippman, And Erik Michelson -- Positive Indicators Of Sibling Relationship Quality: The Sibling Inventory Of Behavior / Brenda L. Volling And Alysia Y. Blandon -- The Patterns Of Adaptive Learning Survey / Eric M. Anderman, Tim Urdan, And Robert Roeser -- Ability Self-perceptions And Subjective Task Values In Adolescents And Children / Jacquelynne S. Eccles, Susan A. O'neill, And Allan Wigfield -- Assessing Academic Self-regulated Learning / Christopher A. Wolters, Paul R. Pintrich, And Stuart A. Karabenick -- Identifying Adaptive Classrooms: Dimensions Of The Classroom Social Environment / Helen Patrick And Allison M. Ryan -- Connection To School / Clea Mcneely --^ School Engagement / Jennifer A. Fredricks, Phyllis Blumenfeld, Jeanne Friedel, And Alison Paris -- Community-based Civic Engagement / Scott Keeter, Krista Jenkins, Cliff Zukin, And Molly Andolina -- Prosocial Orientation And Community Service / Peter C. Scales And Peter L. Benson -- Frugality, Generosity, And Materialism In Children And Adolescents / Tim Kasser. Edited By Kristin A. Moore And Laura Lippman. Papers Presented At A Conference Held In Washington, D.c. In March 2003. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Annotation Regardless of its validity, many adults share a belief that today's youth face an inauspicious future. Drugs, sex, violence, disintegration of the nuclear family, technology that replaces interpersonal relationships-that's what you hear in the news. The media, through its dramatization of the dangers and risks children confront and pose, have created a well-established image of disenfranchised, hostile, and often-destructive children and adolescents. This image ignores the many children who are thriving as well as the possibility of positive outcomes for children and youth. With children comprising roughly 30% of the global population-almost 2 billion children worldwide-understanding exactly what leads children to grow into confident, caring, responsible adults is an issue that belongs at the forefront of every nation's agenda. Increasingly, it is understood that we need not only to prevent negative outcomes but to promote positive outcomes. What Do Children Need to Flourish? Conceptualizing and Measuring Indicators of Positive Development, part of the Search Series on Developmentally Attentive Community and Society, focuses on how scholars and practitioners can begin to build rigorous measures of the healthy behaviors and attitudes that result in positive outcomes for children and youth. The volume is presented in five parts: Introduction and conceptual framework; Positive formation of the self-character, values, spirituality, life satisfaction, hope, and ethnic identity; Healthy habits, positive behaviors, and time use; Positive relationships with parents and siblings; Positive attitudes and behaviors toward learning and school environments; Enacting positive values and behaviors in communities. What Do Children Need to Flourish? Conceptualizing and Measuring Indicators of Positive Development is an important volume for researchers and practitioners-in fact, for anyone interested and involved in working with children and adolescents Introduction and Conceptual Framework....Pages 1-10 Front Matter....Pages 11-11 The Values in Action Inventory of Character Strengths for Youth....Pages 13-23 Adolescent Spirituality....Pages 25-40 Children’s Life Satisfaction....Pages 41-59 Measuring Hope in Children....Pages 61-73 The Ethnic Identity Scale....Pages 75-91 Front Matter....Pages 93-93 Leisure Time Activities in Middle Childhood....Pages 95-110 Healthy Habits among Adolescents: Sleep, Exercise, Diet, and Body Image....Pages 111-132 Adolescent Participation in Organized Activities....Pages 133-146 Positive Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Functioning: An Assessment of Measures among Adolescents....Pages 147-161 A Scale of Positive Social Behaviors....Pages 163-179 Front Matter....Pages 181-181 The Parent-Adolescent Relationship Scale....Pages 183-202 Positive Indicators of Sibling Relationship Quality: The Sibling Inventory of Behavior....Pages 203-219 Front Matter....Pages 221-221 The Patterns of Adaptive Learning Survey....Pages 223-235 Ability Self-Perceptions and Subjective Task Values in Adolescents and Children....Pages 237-249 Assessing Academic Self-Regulated Learning....Pages 251-270 Identifying Adaptive Classrooms: Dimensions of the Classroom Social Environment....Pages 271-287 Connection to School....Pages 289-303 School Engagement....Pages 305-321 Front Matter....Pages 323-323 Community-Based Civic Engagement....Pages 325-338 Front Matter....Pages 323-323 Prosocial Orientation and Community Service....Pages 339-356 Frugality, Generosity, and Materialism in Children and Adolescents....Pages 357-373 This volume responds to the intense concern for and interest in identifying and measuring what matters for happy, healthy children who grow to be compassionate, responsible adults. And although innumerable organizations undertake efforts aimed at positive youth development, this book takes the first step toward developing a system of national indicators that can be used to monitor positive behaviors and attitudes for children at the national level, in communities, and in programs.