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| Reed W LarsonSummaryAffiliation: University of Illinois Country: USA Publications
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Differing profiles of developmental experiences across types of organized youth activitiesReed W Larson
Department of Human and Community Development, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Dev Psychol 42:849-63. 2006..Youth reported all of these positive developmental experiences to occur significantly more often in youth programs than during school classes...- The emergence of solitude as a constructive domain of experience in early adolescenceR W Larson
Department of Human and Community Development, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801, USA
Child Dev 68:80-93. 1997..As a whole, the findings suggest that, while continuing to be a lonely time, in early adolescence solitude comes to have a more constructive role in daily life as a strategic retreat that complements social experience... - How children and adolescents spend time across the world: work, play, and developmental opportunitiesR W Larson
Department of Human and Community Development, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign 61801, USA
Psychol Bull 125:701-36. 1999..Age, gender, and socioeconomic differences in activities and with whom time is spent are also considered... - Toward a psychology of positive youth developmentR W Larson
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
Am Psychol 55:170-83. 2000..One promising approach has recorded language use and has found that adolescents participating in effective organizations acquire a new operating language that appears to correspond to the development of initiative... - Men's work and family lives in India: the daily organization of time and emotionR Larson
Department of Human and Community Development, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 1105 West Nevada Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
J Fam Psychol 15:206-24. 2001..These findings reflect how strong traditional family roles in India shape men's daily lives... - Emotional development in adolescence: what can be learned from a high school theater program?Reed W Larson
Department of Human and Community Development, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Urbana 61801, USA
Child Dev 78:1083-99. 2007..Youth also learned by drawing on and internalizing the emotion culture of the setting, which provided concepts, strategies, and tools for managing emotional episodes... - How urban African American young adolescents spend their time: time budgets for locations, activities, and companionshipR W Larson
Department of Human and Community Development, 1105 W Nevada St, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
Am J Community Psychol 29:565-97. 2001..Amount of time in schoolwork did not differ by grade, and amount of time with family did not show the decline with age that has been found for European American suburban adolescents... - Continuity, stability, and change in daily emotional experience across adolescenceReed W Larson
Department of Human and Community Development, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801, USA
Child Dev 73:1151-65. 2002..As a whole, the findings suggest that late adolescence is associated with a slowing of the emotional changes of early adolescence... - Intrinsic motivation and positive developmentReed W Larson
Department of Human and Community Development, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA
Adv Child Dev Behav 41:89-130. 2011..We give particular attention to adolescence, because it is a period when youth become more able to engage in this deliberate cultivation--to be producers of their own development... 
Adolescents' conscious processes of developing regulation: learning to appraise challengesReed W Larson
Departments of Human and Community Development, Psychology, and Educational Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
New Dir Child Adolesc Dev 2011:87-97. 2011..Adolescents' new higher-order cognitive capacities allow them to better understand the irregularities and complexity of real-world challenges. They also use these capacities to consciously develop skills to navigate these challenges...- Adolescents' development of skills for agency in youth programs: learning to think strategicallyReed W Larson
Department of Human and Community Development, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Child Dev 82:277-94. 2011..Program advisors supported this development by giving youth control and by providing nondirective assistance when needed... - Practitioner expertise: creating quality within the daily tumble of events in youth settingsReed W Larson
Department of Human and Community Development, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA
New Dir Youth Dev 2009:71-88. 2009..Improvement in the quality of youth settings can be achieved through greater knowledge of the tumble of events that occur and by helping train practitioners in skills for responding to it... - Age trends in the experience of family discord in single-mother families across adolescenceJ B Dworkin
Department of Human and Community Development, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
J Adolesc 24:529-34. 2001..Mothers' reports of overall family discord decreased across adolescence. In immediate interactions, adolescent boys reported feeling more anger towards their mothers with age, while girls reported feeling less anger with age... - Dilemmas of practice: challenges to program quality encountered by youth program leadersReed W Larson
The Department of Human and Community Development, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, IL, USA
Am J Community Psychol 45:338-49. 2010..It is argued that researchers need to go beyond identifying features of high quality programs, and more fully examine how effective leaders create and sustain high quality in response to the challenging situations of practice...