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Individual and Ecological Assets and Thriving Among African American Adolescent Male Gang and Community-Based Organization Members

A Report From Wave 3 of the "Overcoming the Odds" Study

Carl S. Taylor

Pamela R. Smith

Michigan State University

Virgil A. Taylor

Urban Ecology Institute

Alexander von Eye

Michigan State University

Richard M. Lerner

Aida Bilalbegovic Balsano

Pamela M. Anderson

Rumeli Banik

Jason B. Almerigi

Tufts University

The third wave of the Overcoming the Odds longitudinal study involves data about individual and ecological developmental assets and thriving among African American male adolescents in inner-city Detroit gangs (N = 43) or in youth development, communitybased organizations (CBO; N = 50). Both groups had comparable levels of either low or high assets across the three waves. Stability in asset levels was not related to either of two measures of thriving or to a second measure of assets. The CBO youth had higher thriving and asset scores. More so for gang youth than CBO youth, there was evidence that asset and thriving scores were interrelated within this wave. Program and policy implications of these group differences are discussed.

Key Words: gangs • thriving • developmental assets • African American male adolescents • positive youth development

The Journal of Early Adolescence, Vol. 25, No. 1, 72-93 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0272431604271771
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