Aida B Balsano

Biographic Data

ID6366853
NAMEAida B Balsano
GIVEN NAMESAida B
FAMILY NAMEBalsano
SIGNATUREBALSANO A B
AFFILIATIONSTufts University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS8
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
H-INDEX1

  • Peter's Bench

    Aida B Balsano, Aida Balsano et al.ARTICLEApplied Developmental Science2012

    Peter Benson touched so many lives, including the lives of the four of us. The four of us first came together as graduate students of Richard Lerner, at the Institute for Applied Research in Youth

  • Patterns of Early Adolescents' Participation in Youth Development Programs Having Positive Youth Development Goals

    Open AccessAida B Balsano, Erin Phelps et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research on Adolescence2009Cited by: 7References: 4

    Theory and research suggest that structured, out‐of‐school‐time activities, and in particular youth development programs aimed at promoting positive youth development (PYD), are key developmental assets for such development. Using longitudinal data from 945 fifth and sixth graders participating in the 4‐H Study of PYD, initial descriptive information is presented about early adolescent participation in youth programs having or not having PYD goal…

  • Commentary on the Special Issue of ADS Muslim Youth in the West

    Aida B Balsano, Selcuk R SirinARTICLEApplied Developmental Science2007

    At any given point in ontogenetic and historical time, neither individuals' attributes nor the features of their context alone are the leading predictors of their healthy development and adaptation. Instead, the relations between the individual and different levels of his/her ecology (such as family, peers, settings, cultural values, and media) are most important in understanding the character of human development and of the role of the ecology o…

  • Youth Civic Engagement in the United States

    Aida B BalsanoARTICLEApplied Developmental Science2005

    (2005). Youth Civic Engagement in the United States: Understanding and Addressing the Impact of Social Impediments on Positive Youth and Community Development. Applied Developmental Science: Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 188-201

  • Positive Individual and Social Behavior among Gang and Nongang African American Male Adolescents

    Open AccessCarl S Taylor, Richard M Lerner et al.ARTICLEJournal of Adolescent Research2003Cited by: 1References: 4

    To explore potential bases of positive development among gang youth, attributes of positive individual and social behavior were assessed in individual interviews with 45 African American adolescent male members of inner-city Detroit gangs and 50 African American adolescent males from the same communities but involved in community-based organizations aimed at promoting positive youth development. As anticipated, the groups differed in regard to th…