Heather L Ramey
Biographic Data
| ID | 230703 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heather L Ramey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heather L |
| FAMILY NAME | Ramey |
| SIGNATURE | RAMEY H L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brock University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1562-4548 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Rethinking Child Activism: Civil Society Organisations' Practices, Challenges, and Transformative Approaches
This paper critically examines how civil society organisations (CSOs), particularly development and humanitarian non‐governmental organisations (NGOs), shape children's and young people's activism as represented in the scholarly literature. Drawing on a transdisciplinary literature review informed by reflexive professional insights, the paper addresses the question: How do CSOs shape the systems, discourses, and practices that underpin child and …
Economics of Intergenerational Volunteering: A Mixed-Methods Study of Snow-Buddies Program in Niagara Region, Canada
Safer spaces in youth development programs and health in Canadian youth
Engagement in youth programs is a potential means to promote health and well-being across populations of young people. Safer spaces in these youth programs are likely critical in fostering positive health outcomes, but current research on the links between safer spaces and health is limited. In this exploratory study, we examined links between program safety in youth development programs and minoritized status, and health-related quality of life …
The associations between early generative concern, moral identity, and well-being in adolescence and early adulthood
Generativity, defined as care and concern for future generations as a legacy of the self, is central to developmental success in midlife, though recent research suggests that it is also an important aspect of positive development to younger adults and adolescents. Following previous studies using midlife samples, in the current study we investigated whether generativity in early adulthood and late adolescence was associated with young people’s mo…
Trajectories of Youth's Helping From Adolescence into Adulthood: The Importance of Social Relations and Values
Helping behaviors (e.g., helping a sick friend, volunteering) are important forms of community involvement and likely change with age and life context. Yet, trajectories of community helping from adolescence through early adulthood have rarely been examined. It is also unclear how the roles of family, friends, and social attitudes might foster the development of helping behaviors across these years. We report on a study of community helping in a …
Unfolding What Self-Compassion Means in Young Carers’ Lives
Identity, Intimacy, and Generativity in Adolescence and Young Adulthood: A Test of the Psychosocial Model
Recently, there has been increasing interest in understanding generativity, defined as concern for future generations as a legacy of the self, in adolescence and young adulthood. In Erikson’s model of psychosocial development, generativity was the seventh task following identity and intimacy. Although studies to date have found links between early generative concern and identity and intimacy, few studies have examined these associations simultane…
The Young Canadians Roundtable on Health: Promising practices for youth and adults working in partnership
Engaging diverse Canadian youth in youth development programs: Program quality and community engagement
Predictors of Early Community Involvement: Advancing the Self and Caring for Others
Recent research on community involvement points to the importance of both agentic (advancing the self) and communal motives (serving others) as key predictors, though few studies have examined both simultaneously. At the same time, research has identified generativity, defined as concern for future generations as a legacy of the self, as particularly relevant for community involvement. Moreover, generativity involves both agentic and communal mot…
Youth–Adult Partnerships and Youth Identity Style
Motivations for Activity Participation as Predictors of Emerging Adults' Psychological Engagement in Leisure Activities
Psychological engagement has been identified as a critical factor in the potential benefits of emerging adults. leisure activity participation. Emerging adults. motivations for participation might be particularly important in predicting psychological engagement. In the present work, we report findings from a study of motivations for leisure participation and its associations with psychological engagement. In a sample of 183 undergraduate universi…
The new mentality: Youth–adult partnerships in community mental health promotion
Now I know I can make a difference”: Generativity and activity engagement as predictors of meaning making in adolescents and emerging adults
This study examined generativity (concern for future generations as a legacy of the self) and activity engagement as predictors of meaning making in young people's personal accounts of their key activity experiences. We elicited stories regarding events within participants' "most engaging activity," self-reports on generativity, and behavioral participation and psychological engagement in activities in 2 separate samples: an emerging adult sample…
Organizational Outcomes of Youth Involvement in Organizational Decision Making: A Synthesis of Qualitative Research
Youth Engagement and Suicide Risk: Testing a Mediated Model in a Canadian Community Sample
Modernism, Postmodernism and (Evidence-Based) Practice
A Sequential Analysis of Externalizing in Narrative Therapy with Children
Now I know I can make a difference”: Generativity and activity engagement as predictors of meaning making in adolescents and emerging adults
This study examined generativity (concern for future generations as a legacy of the self) and activity engagement as predictors of meaning making in young people's personal accounts of their key activity experiences. We elicited stories regarding events within participants' "most engaging activity," self-reports on generativity, and behavioral participation and psychological engagement in activities in 2 separate samples: an emerging adult sample…
The new mentality: Youth–adult partnerships in community mental health promotion
Organizational Outcomes of Youth Involvement in Organizational Decision Making: A Synthesis of Qualitative Research
Engaging diverse Canadian youth in youth development programs: Program quality and community engagement
Predictors of Early Community Involvement: Advancing the Self and Caring for Others
Recent research on community involvement points to the importance of both agentic (advancing the self) and communal motives (serving others) as key predictors, though few studies have examined both simultaneously. At the same time, research has identified generativity, defined as concern for future generations as a legacy of the self, as particularly relevant for community involvement. Moreover, generativity involves both agentic and communal mot…
Motivations for Activity Participation as Predictors of Emerging Adults' Psychological Engagement in Leisure Activities
Psychological engagement has been identified as a critical factor in the potential benefits of emerging adults. leisure activity participation. Emerging adults. motivations for participation might be particularly important in predicting psychological engagement. In the present work, we report findings from a study of motivations for leisure participation and its associations with psychological engagement. In a sample of 183 undergraduate universi…
Youth Engagement and Suicide Risk: Testing a Mediated Model in a Canadian Community Sample
A Sequential Analysis of Externalizing in Narrative Therapy with Children
The Young Canadians Roundtable on Health: Promising practices for youth and adults working in partnership
Youth–Adult Partnerships and Youth Identity Style
Modernism, Postmodernism and (Evidence-Based) Practice
Modernism, Postmodernism and (Evidence-Based) Practice
A Sequential Analysis of Externalizing in Narrative Therapy with Children
Youth Engagement and Suicide Risk: Testing a Mediated Model in a Canadian Community Sample
Organizational Outcomes of Youth Involvement in Organizational Decision Making: A Synthesis of Qualitative Research
The new mentality: Youth–adult partnerships in community mental health promotion
Now I know I can make a difference”: Generativity and activity engagement as predictors of meaning making in adolescents and emerging adults
This study examined generativity (concern for future generations as a legacy of the self) and activity engagement as predictors of meaning making in young people's personal accounts of their key activity experiences. We elicited stories regarding events within participants' "most engaging activity," self-reports on generativity, and behavioral participation and psychological engagement in activities in 2 separate samples: an emerging adult sample…
Motivations for Activity Participation as Predictors of Emerging Adults' Psychological Engagement in Leisure Activities
Psychological engagement has been identified as a critical factor in the potential benefits of emerging adults. leisure activity participation. Emerging adults. motivations for participation might be particularly important in predicting psychological engagement. In the present work, we report findings from a study of motivations for leisure participation and its associations with psychological engagement. In a sample of 183 undergraduate universi…
Predictors of Early Community Involvement: Advancing the Self and Caring for Others
Recent research on community involvement points to the importance of both agentic (advancing the self) and communal motives (serving others) as key predictors, though few studies have examined both simultaneously. At the same time, research has identified generativity, defined as concern for future generations as a legacy of the self, as particularly relevant for community involvement. Moreover, generativity involves both agentic and communal mot…
Youth–Adult Partnerships and Youth Identity Style
Engaging diverse Canadian youth in youth development programs: Program quality and community engagement
The Young Canadians Roundtable on Health: Promising practices for youth and adults working in partnership
Identity, Intimacy, and Generativity in Adolescence and Young Adulthood: A Test of the Psychosocial Model
Recently, there has been increasing interest in understanding generativity, defined as concern for future generations as a legacy of the self, in adolescence and young adulthood. In Erikson’s model of psychosocial development, generativity was the seventh task following identity and intimacy. Although studies to date have found links between early generative concern and identity and intimacy, few studies have examined these associations simultane…
Unfolding What Self-Compassion Means in Young Carers’ Lives
Trajectories of Youth's Helping From Adolescence into Adulthood: The Importance of Social Relations and Values
Helping behaviors (e.g., helping a sick friend, volunteering) are important forms of community involvement and likely change with age and life context. Yet, trajectories of community helping from adolescence through early adulthood have rarely been examined. It is also unclear how the roles of family, friends, and social attitudes might foster the development of helping behaviors across these years. We report on a study of community helping in a …
Safer spaces in youth development programs and health in Canadian youth
Engagement in youth programs is a potential means to promote health and well-being across populations of young people. Safer spaces in these youth programs are likely critical in fostering positive health outcomes, but current research on the links between safer spaces and health is limited. In this exploratory study, we examined links between program safety in youth development programs and minoritized status, and health-related quality of life …
The associations between early generative concern, moral identity, and well-being in adolescence and early adulthood
Generativity, defined as care and concern for future generations as a legacy of the self, is central to developmental success in midlife, though recent research suggests that it is also an important aspect of positive development to younger adults and adolescents. Following previous studies using midlife samples, in the current study we investigated whether generativity in early adulthood and late adolescence was associated with young people’s mo…
Economics of Intergenerational Volunteering: A Mixed-Methods Study of Snow-Buddies Program in Niagara Region, Canada
Rethinking Child Activism: Civil Society Organisations' Practices, Challenges, and Transformative Approaches
This paper critically examines how civil society organisations (CSOs), particularly development and humanitarian non‐governmental organisations (NGOs), shape children's and young people's activism as represented in the scholarly literature. Drawing on a transdisciplinary literature review informed by reflexive professional insights, the paper addresses the question: How do CSOs shape the systems, discourses, and practices that underpin child and …
Psychology (16 works) · Youth Development and Social Support (10 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Community Health and Development (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Positive Youth Development (5 works) · Adult Development (4 works)