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Adolescent diversity in ethnic, economic, and cultural contexts / edited by Raymond Montemayor, Gerald R. Adams, Thomas P. Gullotta. - Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, ©2000. - 1 online resource (viii, 296 pages) : illustrations - Advances in adolescent development ; v. 10 . - Advances in adolescent development ; v. 10. .

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Paths to adulthood : adolescent diversity in contemporary America / Raymond Montemayor -- Competence among urban adolescents in poverty : multiple forms, contexts, and developmental processes / Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Edward Seidman -- Rural youth : ecological and life course perspectives / Lisa J. Crockett, Michael J. Shanahan, Julia Jackson-Newsom -- Growing up in Appalachia : ecological influences on adolescent development / Stephan M. Wilson, Gary W. Peterson -- Indian adolescence : opportunity and challenge / Fred Beauvais -- Healthy adjustment in Mexican-American and other Hispanic adolescents / Felipe Gonzales Castro, Gina R. Boyer, Hector G. Balcazar -- Asian-American adolescents : a research review to dispel the model minority myth / Frederick T. Leong, Ruth K. Chao, Erin E. Hardin -- Ecological correlates of the social and emotional adjustment of African-American adolescents / Ronald D. Taylor, Leanne Jacobson, Debra Roberts -- Conceptual and methodological issues in studying minority adolescents / Michael Cunningham, Margaret Beale Spencer -- The variety of adolescent experiences / Raymond Montemayor.

By summarising and integrating theory and research on adolescents from a diversity of backgrounds, this text presents a picture of these understudied and misunderstood adolescents by focusing on the positive, healthy development of minorities.


English.

ISBN: 9781452221939 (electronic bk.) 1452221936 (electronic bk.) 9781452225647 (ebook) 1452225648 (ebook) 1322413517 9781322413518

Source: 9781452221939 Ingram Content Group

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB6G1897 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 017422915 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Teenagers--Social conditions.--United States
Adolescence--United States.
Minority teenagers--United States.
Teenagers with social disabilities--United States.
Adolescents--Conditions sociales.--États-Unis
Adolescence--États-Unis.
Adolescents issus des minorités--États-Unis.
Adolescents socialement défavorisés--États-Unis.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS--Life Stages--Adolescence.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS--Life Stages--Teenagers.
Adolescence.
Minority teenagers.
Teenagers--Social conditions.
Teenagers with social disabilities.
Jugend
Wirtschaftliche Lage
Soziale Situation
Aufsatzsammlung

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States.
USA

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HQ796 / .A3342 2000eb

Dewey Class. No.: 305.235/0973