This study examines resilience among a sample of American Indian adolescents living on or near reservations in the upper Midwest. Data are from a baseline survey of 212 youth (115 boys and 97 girls) who were enrolled in the fifth through eighth grades. Based upon the definition of resilience, latent class analyses were conducted to identify youth who displayed prosocial outcomes (60.5%) as oppo...

This study explores the causes and solutions to youth hockey coaches’ abusive behavior, particularly shouting, swearing, punishing. It draws on extensive literature regarding sports, Positive Youth Development, coaching behaviors, emotional abuse, culture of hockey. The issue was approached from four perspectives: players, parents, referees, coaches. Data collected through semi-structured inter...

Young African Americans have not participated as long as their white counterparts in the media culture industry (Nightingale 1993). In truth, it is difficult to discern a substantive relationship between black youth and the mass media prior to the 1960s. The initial exclusion of blacks from popular media culture is attributable to two main factors: 1) a lack of discretionary income on the part ...

Youths represent a very important stakeholder in any society. The solutions to adult problems tomorrow depend on how children grow today. Unemployment in Nigeria is a time bomb waiting to explode if effective interventions are not put in place to mitigate the unsavoury impact of high youth unemployment. This paper establishes a link between entrepreneurship and youth unemployment if adequate at...

Abstract This article explains the political significance of Union Youth Federations Cambodia, quasi-youth wing ruling Cambodian People's Party in Cambodia. I argue that pro-regime events organized by youth are a form state mobilization designed to help party pre-empt threat posed country's growing population. In doing so, draws upon monarchy, culture, and nationalism regenerate party's legitim...