Well-Being of Youth and Emerging Adults across Cultures

Foreword; Jeffrey Arnett.- Part I. Well-Being of Youth and Emerging Adults from Indigenous Populations.- Chapter 1. Developmental and Cross-Cultural Considerations in the Study of Well-Being among Young People; Mariya Petrova and Seth Schwartz.- Chapter 2. The Contribution of Religiosity and Optimism on Well-Being of Youth and Emerging Adults in Italy; Cristiano Inguglia, Pasquale Musso, Nicolò Maria Iannello and Alida Lo Coco.- Chapter 3. Positive Youth Development in China; Bin-Bin Chen, Xixi Ling and Ning Chen.- Chapter 4. Different Pathway to Adulthood?: Relationships between Identity Formation and Positive Psychological Outcomes in Japanese Adolescents and Emerging Adults; Kazumi Sugimura, Kai Hatano and Shinichi Mizokami.- Chapter 5. The Relationship between Well-Being and Value Priorities as well as Intersubjective Norms among Emerging Adults in South Africa; Byron G. Adams, Ronald Fischer and Amina Abubakar.- Chapter 6. Thriving and Contribution among Emerging Adults in Ghana;Nora Wiium.- Chapter 7. Positive Affect and the Experience of Meaning in Life among Romanian Emerging Adults; Carmen Buzea and Radosveta Dimitrova.- Chapter 8. Goal Orientation Profiles and Psychological Well-Being of Adolescents in Greece; Stefanos Mastrotheodoros, Michael Talias and Frosso Motti-Stefanidi.- Part II. Well-Being of Youth and Emerging Adults from Ethnic Minority and Immigrant Populations.- Chapter 9. Intersectionality and Well-Being among Racial/Ethnic Minority & LGB Youth/Adolescents: Extended Family Members as Support against Negative Parental Reactions to Coming Out; Jose-Michael Gonzalez, Katerina Sinclair, Anthony R. D'Augelli and Arnold Grossman.- Chapter 10. Positive Affect and School Related Outcomes: Feeling Good Facilitates School Engagement among Turkish-Bulgarian Minority Adolescents; Arzu-Aydinli-Karakulak, Ayben Baylar, Seray Çagla Keles and Radosveta Dimitrova.- Chapter 11. Only Real When Shared: Social Well-Being, Collective Efficacy, and Social

Radosveta Dimitrova is a Docent at the Department of Psychology at Stockholm University, Sweden. She holds PhD in Developmental Psychology (University of Trieste, Italy awarded the 2009 Best Doctoral Thesis by the Italian Association of Psychologists), and a PhD in Cross-Cultural Psychology (Tilburg University, the Netherlands, awarded the 2012 Student and Early Career Council Dissertation Award of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD). She holds the 2016 Young Scientist Award of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, ISSBD for distinguished theoretical contribution, research and dissemination of developmental science. Her research interests regard migration, positive youth development, marginalized ethnic minority communities (Roma).