Roya Abbasi‐Asl
Biographic Data
| ID | 7174034 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roya Abbasi‐Asl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roya |
| FAMILY NAME | Abbasi‐Asl |
| SIGNATURE | ASL R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tufts University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1186-5424 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
On the coactions between perceived program quality and youth purpose
Contemporary theories of positive youth development (PYD) emphasize dynamic, mutually beneficial relationships between individuals and their contexts as a pathway to thriving and contribution. However, there remains a critical gap in longitudinal, theory‐driven research examining youth strengths (e.g., purpose) and contextual assets (e.g., program quality) in Majority World contexts, particularly within structured youth programming. The present s…
Youth development programming in El Salvador
Youth development programs can equip young people with the skills and competencies they need to thrive, and thus, are ecological assets supporting youth, particularly those living in Majority World countries, such as El Salvador, where young people are exposed to high rates of poverty and violence. The programs of Compassion International (CI), an international faith‐based youth organization, serve more than 2.4 million youth across Majority Worl…
Character attributes scale
To understand youth character development, assessments must consider both the fluctuations of an individual’s character across time and place (within-person variations), as well as the changes in their character relative to other individuals in their context (between-person differences). Although measures of character exist for between-person research, there is a need for context-specific, valid, and reliable measures of character that can captur…
Reject All Splits
This article compares two paradigms used to describe, explain, and optimize human development, the Cartesian split, essentialist, and reductionist paradigm and the process-relational one, and the metatheories associated with them, the reductionist metamodel and the dynamic, relational developmental systems (RDS) metamodel, respectively. We provide an RDS-based rationale for rejecting the splitting of quantitative and qualitative changes in depict…
Studying positive youth development among diverse youth in global contexts
We explain the importance of using youth‐specific (idiographic) measurements, intensive longitudinal designs, and dynamic approaches for understanding how mutually influential individualcontext coactions shape idiographic developmental pathways in global contexts. We review data from two international positive youth development (PYD) studies illustrating how idiographic developmental pathways reflect meaningful variability in young people's coact…
Nomothetic, Differential, and Idiographic Assessment of Character Development Among South African Youth
Character strengths and well-being
Youth development programs in the majority world are increasingly taking a strengths-based, positive youth development (PYD) approach to promoting youth thriving. Although character strengths are believed to support well-being, more evidence from majority-world contexts is needed. Using data derived from the Compassion International Study of PYD in Uganda (n = 606, Mage = 12.5 years, SDage = 2.3, 50.2% female), we validated a measurement model of…
Character development among Ugandan youth
Person-specific and variable-focused assessments represent two distinct approaches to research, each offering valuable insights from different standpoints. However, the focus of character studies has mostly been on variable-focused assessments that measure between-person differences, leaving the specific trajectories of character development and the relation among character constructs at the within-person level unexplored. In this article, we stu…
Using the orthogenetic principle to explore the ontogeny of the positive development of Ugandan youth
Trajectories of physiological and perceived stress among South African youth
Although research on stress – measured through self-reports or physiological markers – has been increasing in Sub-Saharan Africa, little is known about its nature during adolescence. This study aimed to describe among South African youth different trajectories of physiological stress (salivary cortisol), perceived stress (self-reports), and potential predictors of these trajectories, that is, indicators of developmentally nurturing relationships …
Using youth-specific approaches to illuminate character-well-being relations
To date, most studies linking youth well-being to character attributes focus on average effects based on between-person differences. In this study, we examined the within- and between-person relations among character attributes and well-being using an intensive longitudinal data set from the Compassion International (CI) Study of Positive Youth Development in Uganda. Participants (200 CI-enrolled youth, 49.5% female, Mage = 12.13, SDage = 2.19) c…
Measuring Youth Perceptions of Being Known and Loved and Positive Youth Development
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Measuring Youth Perceptions of Being Known and Loved and Positive Youth Development
Nomothetic, Differential, and Idiographic Assessment of Character Development Among South African Youth
Character strengths and well-being
Youth development programs in the majority world are increasingly taking a strengths-based, positive youth development (PYD) approach to promoting youth thriving. Although character strengths are believed to support well-being, more evidence from majority-world contexts is needed. Using data derived from the Compassion International Study of PYD in Uganda (n = 606, Mage = 12.5 years, SDage = 2.3, 50.2% female), we validated a measurement model of…
Character development among Ugandan youth
Person-specific and variable-focused assessments represent two distinct approaches to research, each offering valuable insights from different standpoints. However, the focus of character studies has mostly been on variable-focused assessments that measure between-person differences, leaving the specific trajectories of character development and the relation among character constructs at the within-person level unexplored. In this article, we stu…
Using the orthogenetic principle to explore the ontogeny of the positive development of Ugandan youth
Trajectories of physiological and perceived stress among South African youth
Although research on stress – measured through self-reports or physiological markers – has been increasing in Sub-Saharan Africa, little is known about its nature during adolescence. This study aimed to describe among South African youth different trajectories of physiological stress (salivary cortisol), perceived stress (self-reports), and potential predictors of these trajectories, that is, indicators of developmentally nurturing relationships …
Using youth-specific approaches to illuminate character-well-being relations
To date, most studies linking youth well-being to character attributes focus on average effects based on between-person differences. In this study, we examined the within- and between-person relations among character attributes and well-being using an intensive longitudinal data set from the Compassion International (CI) Study of Positive Youth Development in Uganda. Participants (200 CI-enrolled youth, 49.5% female, Mage = 12.13, SDage = 2.19) c…
On the coactions between perceived program quality and youth purpose
Contemporary theories of positive youth development (PYD) emphasize dynamic, mutually beneficial relationships between individuals and their contexts as a pathway to thriving and contribution. However, there remains a critical gap in longitudinal, theory‐driven research examining youth strengths (e.g., purpose) and contextual assets (e.g., program quality) in Majority World contexts, particularly within structured youth programming. The present s…
Youth development programming in El Salvador
Youth development programs can equip young people with the skills and competencies they need to thrive, and thus, are ecological assets supporting youth, particularly those living in Majority World countries, such as El Salvador, where young people are exposed to high rates of poverty and violence. The programs of Compassion International (CI), an international faith‐based youth organization, serve more than 2.4 million youth across Majority Worl…
Character attributes scale
To understand youth character development, assessments must consider both the fluctuations of an individual’s character across time and place (within-person variations), as well as the changes in their character relative to other individuals in their context (between-person differences). Although measures of character exist for between-person research, there is a need for context-specific, valid, and reliable measures of character that can captur…
Reject All Splits
This article compares two paradigms used to describe, explain, and optimize human development, the Cartesian split, essentialist, and reductionist paradigm and the process-relational one, and the metatheories associated with them, the reductionist metamodel and the dynamic, relational developmental systems (RDS) metamodel, respectively. We provide an RDS-based rationale for rejecting the splitting of quantitative and qualitative changes in depict…
Studying positive youth development among diverse youth in global contexts
We explain the importance of using youth‐specific (idiographic) measurements, intensive longitudinal designs, and dynamic approaches for understanding how mutually influential individualcontext coactions shape idiographic developmental pathways in global contexts. We review data from two international positive youth development (PYD) studies illustrating how idiographic developmental pathways reflect meaningful variability in young people's coact…
Youth Development and Social Support (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Character development (3 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (3 works) · Nomothetic and idiographic (3 works) · Positive Youth Development (3 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (3 works)