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Identity processes and the positive youth development of African Americans: an explanatory framework
Dena Phillips Swanson1, Margaret Beale Spencer, Tabitha Dell'Angelo
1College of Health and Human Development, Pennsylvania State University, USA.
New Directions for Youth Development
|November 27, 2002
Abstract:
This chapter presents Spencer's phenomenological variant of ecological systems theory, or PVEST (1995), as a conceptual framework for examining positive youth development. Contextual factors affecting racial and gender identity of African American youth are discussed, with the focus on the influence of schools and religious institutions.