Positive Youth Development and Spirituality (ePub)

ContentsForewordPeter L. BensonPreface1. Positive Development, Spirituality, and Generosity in Youth: An Introduction to the IssuesRichard M. Lerner, Robert W. Roeser, and Erin PhelpsPart 1: Conceptual Issues in Operationalizing Spirituality in Positive Youth Development2. The Spirit of Spiritual DevelopmentCarl N. Johnson3. Spirituality and Positive Youth Development: The Problem of TranscendenceW. George Scarlett4. Spirituality as Fertile Ground for Positive Youth DevelopmentPamela Ebstyne King5. Self and Identity Processes in Religion, Spirituality and Positive Youth DevelopmentRobert W. Roeser, Sonia S. Issac, Mona Abo-Zena, Aerika Brittian, and Stephen C. PeckPart 2: Biological Contributions to the Spirituality-PYD Relation6. Genetics of Faith: An Oxymoron Worth ExaminingElena L. Grigorenko7. Cooperative Behavior in Adolescence: Economic Antecedents and Neural UnderpinningsTomas Paus, Simon Gachter, Chris Starmer, and Richard Wilkinson8. How Religious/Spiritual Practices Contribute to Well-Being: The Role of EmotionRegulationHeather L. Urry and Alan P. PoeyPart 3: Individual Contributions to the Spirituality-PYD Relation9. The Role of Developmental Change in Spiritual DevelopmentDavid Henry Feldman10. Spirituality, "Expanding Circle Morality," and Positive Youth DevelopmentJanice L. Templeton and Jacquelynne S. Eccles11. The Role of Spirituality in Supporting Purpose in AdolescenceJennifer Menon Mariano and William Damon12. From "Worm Food" to "Infinite Bliss": Emerging Adults' Views of Life After DeathJeffrey Jensen ArnettPart 4: Social and Cultural Contexts of the Spirituality-PYD Relation13. Immigrant Civic Engagement and Religion: The Paradoxical Roles of Religious MotivesandOrganizationsLene Arnett Jensen14. Ethnic Identity and SpiritualityLinda Juang and Moin Syed15. Considering Context, Culture, and Development in the Relationship Between Spiritualityand Positive Youth DevelopmentNa'ilah Suad Nasir16. Spirituality Research with Ethnically Diverse

Richard M. Lerner is the Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science and the director of the Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development at Tufts University.

Erin Phelps is research professor and deputy director of the Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development at Tufts University.

Robert W. Roeser is an associate professor of psychology in the Department of Applied Psychology at Portland State University and the senior program coordinator for the Mind and Life Institute. He received his PhD from the Combined Program in Education and Psychology at the University of Michigan (1996) and holds master's degrees in religion and psychology, developmental psychology and clinical social work. In 2005 he was a United States Fulbright Scholar in India, and from 1999 to 2004 he was a William T. Grant Faculty Scholar.

Dr. Roeser's research focuses primarily on how schools, as central cultural contexts of human development, affect both academic and nonacademic aspects of "whole persons" across childhood, adolescence, and emerging adulthood.

He studies how variations in various features of middle and high school environments are associated not only with variations in patterns of achievement and educational attainments among U.S. adolescent students over time, but also in their motivation to learn and student identity commitments; their feelings of emotional well-being, stress and distress; and their behavioral conduct while in school. More recently, he has studied cultural identity development among urban adolescents during a period of rapid globalization in India; the emergence of a national identity among ethnically diverse youth in South Africa during the post-apartheid era; and the role of religion and spirituality in the positive development of immigrant youth in the United States. Although the primary focus of

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