Adolescent diversity in ethnic, economic, and cultural contexts / edited by Raymond Montemayor, Gerald R. Adams, Thomas P. Gullotta.

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.

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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.

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