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POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT
The Positive Development Area conceptualizes, defines, and measures positive behaviors, relationships, and attitudes. We also analyze healthy habits and behaviors, positive relationships, positive attitudes and learning behaviors, and civic engagement.
With a focus on developing Positive Indicators, we commission papers, conduct cognitive testing of survey items, develop new surveys and questionnaire items, and widely disseminate our work for use by others who are developing surveys or evaluating programs.
With support from the John Templeton Foundation, in 2012, Child Trends completed the Flourishing Children Project to develop items for surveys and program evaluations on hard-to-measure positive constructs. This includes items on helping others to flourish, flourishing in school and work, flourishing in relationships, relationship skills, personal flourishing, and environmental stewardship.
Several research papers and other information is also available from an Indicators of Positive Development Conference held in Washington, DC in 2003.
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Measuring Flourishing Among Youth: Findings from the Flourishing Children Positive Indicators Project
L. Lippman, L. Guzman, K. A. Moore
Webinar
Washington, DC
July 19, 2012
2011
The Flourishing Child Project (Presentation)
Laura Lippman, Kristin Moore, Lina Guzman, Selma Caal, Manica Ramos, Megan Kuhfeld
International Society for Child Indicators
July 28, 2011
The Flourishing Children Project
Laura Lippman, Kristin Moore, Lina Guzman, Selma Caal, Manica Ramos, Megan Kuhfeld
April 7, 2011
The Flourishing Children project is developing indicators for 20 constructs of positive development. This presentation summarizes our progress so far and the lessons learned from cognitive interviews with diverse youth across the country.
2010
The Demographics of Spirituality and Religiosity Among Youth: International and U.S. Patterns
The idea that humans have a basic need to connect to a transcendent universe or to have transcendent experiences suggests that spiritual beliefs and practices would be equally distributed in the world population. Surveys, however, consistently find wide variation among population groups in the prevalence of particular spiritual beliefs and practices (such as belief in God and frequency of prayer) and in measures of religiosity (such as frequency of religious attendance or religious identity), both within the United States and across countries of the world.
Laura H. Lippman; Hugh McIntosh
September 2010
Spirituality, Educational Progress, and Positive Youth Development
Laura Lippman
A demografia da espiritualidade e religiosidade entre os jovens: perspectivas internacionais e nos EUA
1st International Congress on Education and Spirituality
Sao Paulo, Brazil
September 4-6, 2010
Developing Data to Portray the Whole Child in Context
Laura Lippman
American Statistical Association/Joint Statistical Meetings
Vancouver, CA
August 2, 2010
2009
Children’s Well-being: A Balanced View
Positive and Negative Micro Indices of Child Well-being
Kristin Anderson Moore; Kassim Mbwana; Margot Bloch
2nd Annual Conference of the International Society for Child Indicators
University of Western Sydney, Australia
November 5, 2009
Parent and Family Religiosity During Adolescence: The Influence on Risky Behaviors during the Transition to Adulthood
Elizabeth C. Hair; Kristin A. Moore
October 2009
Few studies have examined the potential lasting effects of family religious activities and parental religious beliefs during adolescence on well-being into young adulthood.
Developing Positive Indicators of Child Well-being
Laura H. Lippman
Committee for Children and the Academy for Education Development
October 16, 2009
Positive Indicators of Child Well-being: A Conceptual Framework, Measures and Methodological Issues
Laura H. Lippman - Kristin Anderson Moore - Hugh McIntosh. October 2009. Innocenti Working Paper No. 2009-21. Florence, UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre.
Based upon a review of frameworks for positive indicator development for the well-being of children, this paper suggests a new comprehensive framework which identifies constructs for positive well-being as well as potential indicators and extant measures that fit with those constructs. The paper reviews existing data sources for examples of positive measures that are found in the proposed framework as well as research studies that have been successful in measuring these indicators. Read more...
Developing Indicators of Youth Contribution
Laura Lippman
Youth Contribution Indicators Meeting
Minneapolis, Minnesota
August 13, 2009
Indicators of Flourishing for Children
Laura Lippman
Consortium of European Foundations: Education by All for the Well-Being of Children
July 19, 2009
State of the Art of Positive Indicators of Child Well-being
Laura H. Lippman; Kristin Anderson Moore; Hugh McIntosh
UNICEF / OECD / European Commission Well-being Expert Consultation
May 26, 2009
2008
The School Environment and Adolescent Well-Being: Beyond Academics
Pilar Marin; Brett Brown
November 2008
The Over-Scheduling Myth
Joseph L. Mahoney; Angel L. Harris; Jacquelynne S. Eccles
February 2008
Ways to Promote the Positive Development of Childtren and Youth
Nicole Zarrett; Richard M. Lerner
February 2008
2007
What Do Children Need to Flourish? Findings from Cognitive Interviews
Laura Lippman; Kristin A. Moore; Lina Guzman; Gregory Matthews; Jenny Hamilton
International Society for Child Indicators
June 2007
Disconnected Youth: The Influence of Family, Programs, Peers, and Communities on Becoming Disconnected and on Re-connecting
Elizabeth Hair; Kristin A. Moore; Cameron McPhee
SRA Emerging Adulthood Conference
February 15, 2007
Child and Family Well-Being: A New Look
Kristin Moore
Marjorie Pay Hinckley Lecture
Brigham Young University
February 8, 2007
Recruiting Mentors in Out-of-School Time Programs: What's Involved?
Lillian Bowie; Jacinta Bronte-Tinkew
January 2007
2006
Every Child, Every Promise: Turning Failure Into Action
America's Promise. 2006.
The Family Environment and Adolescent Well-being: Exposure to Positive and Negative Family Influences
Dena Aufseeser; Susan Jekielek; Brett Brown
June 2006
2005
Pathways from Religiosity to Adolescent Sexual and Contraceptive Use Behaviors
Jennifer Manlove; Cassandra Logan; Kristin Moore; Erum Ikramullah
The Heritage Foundation
Washington, DC
November 17, 2005
Freeze Frame: A Snapshot of America's Teens
Washington, DC: The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy. September 2005.
The Measurement of Family Religiosity and Spirituality
Laura Lippman - Erik Michelsen -
Eugene C. Roehlekepartain. In Indicators of Child, Family and Community Connections: Companion Volume of Related Papers. L. Lippman, Project Director. Washington, DC: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2005. The paper identifies some of the many studies that have linked the importance of religiosity to family functioning, child, youth, and family outcomes, and social networking. Read more...
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