Kyle Eichas
Biographic Data
| ID | 75430 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kyle Eichas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kyle |
| FAMILY NAME | Eichas |
| SIGNATURE | EICHAS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tarleton State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7714-4796 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Identity Formation, Youth, and Development: A Simplified Approach
A landmark volume in the scientific study of identity formation and youth development, this fully revised second edition synthesizes sociological and psychological approaches to the study of identity. It illuminates the challenges and opportunities that contemporary young people face as they attempt to form identities in societies undergoing transition. The book introduces simplified identity formation theory, which helps newcomers connect the do…
Empowering Nontraditional College Students: A Self-Transformative Intervention for Promoting Positive Identity Development
Does attending preschool in an economically advantaged or disadvantaged neighborhood moderate the effects of the preschool edition of promoting alternative thinking strategies®
Early interventions that foster the participation, engagement, and development of children attending preschools, including those in economically disadvantaged (low-income) neighborhoods, are of high priority. One such intervention is a universal socioemotional learning (SEL) program called Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies (PATHS ® ) which aims to promote social emotional competence and positive adjustment in children, in general, and may…
Engaging Marginalized Youth in Positive Development: The Changing Lives Program
The Study of Family Context: Examining Its Role for Identity Coherence and Adolescent Adjustment for Swedish Adolescents
The present cross-sectional study aimed to examine whether characteristics of the parent-child relationship in adolescence are important for adjustment and identity development. Participants were recruited from schools in central Sweden for a larger longitudinal study when the cohort was 13- to 14-year-olds ( N = 3,667). Characteristics of the parent-child relationship, like parental warmth, democratic parenting, and child communication, and adol…
Do Japanese Youth Proactively Form Identities? An Investigation of Independent Self Formation
This article addresses the debate concerning cultural differences in independent and interdependent self formation among Japanese youth. Independent self formation is defined as any purposive action to form a self actively through individual efforts. This study provides evidence that the majority of Japanese youth, despite their culturally collectivist backgrounds, form selves individually at the level of specific activities. High levels of activ…
Promoting Positive Youth Development: A Psychosocial Intervention Evaluation
Convergence among treatment, prevention, and developmental psychosocial intervention approaches has led to the recognition of the need for evaluation models and research designs that employ a full range of evaluation information to provide an empirical basis for enhancing the efficiency, efficacy, and effectiveness of prevention and psychosocial positive youth development interventions (PYD). This study reports an investigation of a PYD psychosoc…
An Empirical Test of a Diffusion Framework for School‐based Prevention: The 21 Swedish Junior High School Study
This is a 3‐year, quasi‐experimental trial of an intervention diffusion framework. There were 11 intervention and 10 control junior high schools located in either a large Swedish city or the Swedish countryside. Multilevel structural equation modeling was used to evaluate a 2‐level model (1,337 students nested in 85 classrooms) for each outcome domain: internalizing and externalizing problems, substance use, socioemotional competence, and percept…
Reducing Identity Distress: Results of an Identity Intervention for Emerging Adults
Emerging adulthood is a transitional period between adolescence and adulthood where positive and negative life trajectories tend to diverge, with issues surrounding identity formation playing a key role. The present study evaluated the Miami Adult Development Project, a self-facilitated identity-focused intervention. The sample consisted of 141 emerging adults (19−29 years old; M = 23.08) who completed pretest and posttest assessments. Results in…
The Development of a Qualitative Extension for the Personally Expressive Activities Questionnaire (Peaq-QE): A Construct Validation Study
This study describes the development of a qualitative extension for the Personally Expressive Activities Questionnaire (PEAQ), a widely used quantitative questionnaire assessing feeling of personal expressiveness, a core positive identity construct. The PEAQ qualitative extension was developed as part of an ongoing effort to develop and refine an easy-to-use, standardized, reliable method designed for use in adding a free response qualitative com…
Promoting Positive Identity Development in Troubled Youth: A Developmental Intervention Science Outreach Research Approach
This article illustrates how developmental intervention science outreach research contributes to knowledge development on the promotion of positive identity development by describing results from the Miami Youth Development Project. The project is committed to the use of descriptive and explanatory knowledge about evidence-based individual and institutional intervention strategies for promoting developmental change in self and identity. Our effor…
Promoting Positive Youth Development: Relational Data Analysis (RDA)
This article provides an overview of the origins and use of relational data analysis (RDA). RDA is a multidimensional, multiphasic framework for unifying data analytic strategies across dimensions (quantitative/qualitative, causal/structural, observation/interpretation, etc.) and phases of analyses (conceptual, theoretical, and research analyses). RDA was developed within a relational metatheoretical methodological framework for overcoming the sp…
A Developmental Intervention Science (DIS) Outreach Research Approach to Promoting Youth Development: Theoretical, Methodological, and Meta-Theoretical Challenges
This paper describes work directed toward creating community-supported positive youth development interventions that draw on a developmental intervention science outreach research approach. With respect to developmental interventions, this approach focuses on creating evidence-based longitudinal change intervention strategies for promoting long-term developmental change. The paper describes three broad challenges (theoretical, methodological, and…
A Developmental Intervention Science (DIS) Outreach Research Approach to Promoting Youth Development: Theoretical, Methodological, and Meta-Theoretical Challenges
This paper describes work directed toward creating community-supported positive youth development interventions that draw on a developmental intervention science outreach research approach. With respect to developmental interventions, this approach focuses on creating evidence-based longitudinal change intervention strategies for promoting long-term developmental change. The paper describes three broad challenges (theoretical, methodological, and…
The Study of Family Context: Examining Its Role for Identity Coherence and Adolescent Adjustment for Swedish Adolescents
The present cross-sectional study aimed to examine whether characteristics of the parent-child relationship in adolescence are important for adjustment and identity development. Participants were recruited from schools in central Sweden for a larger longitudinal study when the cohort was 13- to 14-year-olds ( N = 3,667). Characteristics of the parent-child relationship, like parental warmth, democratic parenting, and child communication, and adol…
Empowering Nontraditional College Students: A Self-Transformative Intervention for Promoting Positive Identity Development
Promoting Positive Identity Development in Troubled Youth: A Developmental Intervention Science Outreach Research Approach
This article illustrates how developmental intervention science outreach research contributes to knowledge development on the promotion of positive identity development by describing results from the Miami Youth Development Project. The project is committed to the use of descriptive and explanatory knowledge about evidence-based individual and institutional intervention strategies for promoting developmental change in self and identity. Our effor…
Promoting Positive Youth Development: Relational Data Analysis (RDA)
This article provides an overview of the origins and use of relational data analysis (RDA). RDA is a multidimensional, multiphasic framework for unifying data analytic strategies across dimensions (quantitative/qualitative, causal/structural, observation/interpretation, etc.) and phases of analyses (conceptual, theoretical, and research analyses). RDA was developed within a relational metatheoretical methodological framework for overcoming the sp…
A Developmental Intervention Science (DIS) Outreach Research Approach to Promoting Youth Development: Theoretical, Methodological, and Meta-Theoretical Challenges
This paper describes work directed toward creating community-supported positive youth development interventions that draw on a developmental intervention science outreach research approach. With respect to developmental interventions, this approach focuses on creating evidence-based longitudinal change intervention strategies for promoting long-term developmental change. The paper describes three broad challenges (theoretical, methodological, and…
The Development of a Qualitative Extension for the Personally Expressive Activities Questionnaire (Peaq-QE): A Construct Validation Study
This study describes the development of a qualitative extension for the Personally Expressive Activities Questionnaire (PEAQ), a widely used quantitative questionnaire assessing feeling of personal expressiveness, a core positive identity construct. The PEAQ qualitative extension was developed as part of an ongoing effort to develop and refine an easy-to-use, standardized, reliable method designed for use in adding a free response qualitative com…
Reducing Identity Distress: Results of an Identity Intervention for Emerging Adults
Emerging adulthood is a transitional period between adolescence and adulthood where positive and negative life trajectories tend to diverge, with issues surrounding identity formation playing a key role. The present study evaluated the Miami Adult Development Project, a self-facilitated identity-focused intervention. The sample consisted of 141 emerging adults (19−29 years old; M = 23.08) who completed pretest and posttest assessments. Results in…
An Empirical Test of a Diffusion Framework for School‐based Prevention: The 21 Swedish Junior High School Study
This is a 3‐year, quasi‐experimental trial of an intervention diffusion framework. There were 11 intervention and 10 control junior high schools located in either a large Swedish city or the Swedish countryside. Multilevel structural equation modeling was used to evaluate a 2‐level model (1,337 students nested in 85 classrooms) for each outcome domain: internalizing and externalizing problems, substance use, socioemotional competence, and percept…
Do Japanese Youth Proactively Form Identities? An Investigation of Independent Self Formation
This article addresses the debate concerning cultural differences in independent and interdependent self formation among Japanese youth. Independent self formation is defined as any purposive action to form a self actively through individual efforts. This study provides evidence that the majority of Japanese youth, despite their culturally collectivist backgrounds, form selves individually at the level of specific activities. High levels of activ…
Promoting Positive Youth Development: A Psychosocial Intervention Evaluation
Convergence among treatment, prevention, and developmental psychosocial intervention approaches has led to the recognition of the need for evaluation models and research designs that employ a full range of evaluation information to provide an empirical basis for enhancing the efficiency, efficacy, and effectiveness of prevention and psychosocial positive youth development interventions (PYD). This study reports an investigation of a PYD psychosoc…
The Study of Family Context: Examining Its Role for Identity Coherence and Adolescent Adjustment for Swedish Adolescents
The present cross-sectional study aimed to examine whether characteristics of the parent-child relationship in adolescence are important for adjustment and identity development. Participants were recruited from schools in central Sweden for a larger longitudinal study when the cohort was 13- to 14-year-olds ( N = 3,667). Characteristics of the parent-child relationship, like parental warmth, democratic parenting, and child communication, and adol…
Engaging Marginalized Youth in Positive Development: The Changing Lives Program
Does attending preschool in an economically advantaged or disadvantaged neighborhood moderate the effects of the preschool edition of promoting alternative thinking strategies®
Early interventions that foster the participation, engagement, and development of children attending preschools, including those in economically disadvantaged (low-income) neighborhoods, are of high priority. One such intervention is a universal socioemotional learning (SEL) program called Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies (PATHS ® ) which aims to promote social emotional competence and positive adjustment in children, in general, and may…
Identity Formation, Youth, and Development: A Simplified Approach
A landmark volume in the scientific study of identity formation and youth development, this fully revised second edition synthesizes sociological and psychological approaches to the study of identity. It illuminates the challenges and opportunities that contemporary young people face as they attempt to form identities in societies undergoing transition. The book introduces simplified identity formation theory, which helps newcomers connect the do…
Empowering Nontraditional College Students: A Self-Transformative Intervention for Promoting Positive Identity Development
Psychology (12 works) · Developmental psychology (11 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Youth Development and Social Support (7 works) · Community Health and Development (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychological intervention (6 works) · Identity, Memory, and Therapy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (4 works)