PMID- 24723047 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20150114 LR - 20211021 IS - 1573-6601 (Electronic) IS - 0047-2891 (Linking) VI - 43 IP - 6 DP - 2014 Jun TI - Special issue introduction: Thriving across the adolescent years: a view of the issues. PG - 859-68 LID - 10.1007/s10964-014-0117-8 [doi] AB - Framed within a relational developmental systems model, the 4-H Study of positive youth development (PYD) explored the bases and implications of thriving across much of the second decade of life. This special issue pertains to information derived from the recently completed eight waves of the 4-H Study of PYD, and presents findings about the relations between individual and contextual variables that are involved in the thriving process. This introduction briefly reviews the historical background and the theoretical frame for the 4-H Study and describes its general methodology. We provide an overview of the articles in this special issue and discuss the ways in which the articles elucidate different facets of the thriving process. In addition, we discuss the implications of this research for future scholarship and for applications aimed at improving the life chances of diverse adolescents. FAU - Bowers, Edmond P AU - Bowers EP AD - Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA. FAU - Geldhof, G John AU - Geldhof GJ FAU - Johnson, Sara K AU - Johnson SK FAU - Lerner, Jacqueline V AU - Lerner JV FAU - Lerner, Richard M AU - Lerner RM LA - eng PT - Editorial PT - Introductory Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20140412 PL - United States TA - J Youth Adolesc JT - Journal of youth and adolescence JID - 0333507 SB - IM MH - Adolescent MH - *Adolescent Behavior MH - *Adolescent Development MH - Child MH - Female MH - Health Surveys MH - Humans MH - Interpersonal Relations MH - Longitudinal Studies MH - Male MH - Psychological Theory MH - *Psychology, Adolescent MH - *Research Design MH - United States EDAT- 2014/04/12 06:00 MHDA- 2015/01/15 06:00 CRDT- 2014/04/12 06:00 PHST- 2013/12/18 00:00 [received] PHST- 2014/03/10 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2014/04/12 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2014/04/12 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2015/01/15 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1007/s10964-014-0117-8 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Youth Adolesc. 2014 Jun;43(6):859-68. doi: 10.1007/s10964-014-0117-8. Epub 2014 Apr 12.