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Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
2004
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- The Role of Neighborhood and Community in Building Developmental Assets for Children and Youth: A National Study of Social Norms Among American Adults Peter C. Scales Peter L. Benson Eugene C. Roehlkepartain Nicole R. Hintz Theresa K. Sullivan Marc Mannes Psicología Unrelated adults play potentially important roles in the positive socialization of children and youth, but studies ofadolescents suggest the majority of adults do not engage positively with young people on an intentional, frequent, anddeep basis. As a result, only a minority of young people report experiencing key developmental assets that have beenassociated with reduced risk-taking behaviors and increased thriving. Social norms theory suggests that adults will bemore likely to get deeply involved with young people outside their family if that involvement is viewed as highlyimportant, and if they perceive a social expectation to do so. A nationally representative sample of 1,425 U.S. adultswas surveyed to determine the degree of importance American adults ascribed to 19 positive asset-building actions, andthe degree to which the adults they knew actually engaged with young people outside their own families in those positiveways. The results showed that only a minority of Americans experience consistent normative motivation for engagingwith other peoples children. There is a large gap between what adults consider important and what they actually do toconstruct positive, intentional relationships with children and youth. Community stability and extent of communitybuildingactivities in which adults engage, including participation in religious services, volunteering, and neighborhoodmeetings, are associated with differences among adults in the degree of normative motivation for engaging with youngpeople. In addition to these group differences, however, there also are nine asset-building actions …two functioning asgenuine social norms and seven as social values… that great majorities of American adults consider highly important.The foundation therefore exists in public opinion to make explicit greater permission for adults to become more deeplyengaged in the lives of children outside their families and to thereby define new normative expectations for all adultsto share in being responsible for the well-being of young people 2004 artículo científico 0717-0297 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=96713216 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=967 Psykhe application/pdf Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Psykhe (Chile) Num.2 Vol.13