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Edmond P. Bowers is affiliated with Clemson University in the United States and has contributed research primarily within the social sciences and psychology. Their work centers on youth development, education, and safety, with a significant focus on the intersection of environmental and social factors in adolescent growth.

The scientist's primary fields of study include Social Sciences, with 43 publications, and Psychology, with 19 publications. Their subfields demonstrate a concentration on Safety Research, Education, Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Main topics covered in their works encompass Youth Development and Social Support, Early Childhood Education and Development, Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports, Diverse Educational Innovations Studies, Resilience and Mental Health, Higher Education Research Studies, and Youth Education and Societal Dynamics.

Bowers has published frequently in venues such as Evaluation and Program Planning, Journal of Youth Development, Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Frontiers in Psychology, and Children and Youth Services Review. These venues reflect their commitment to applied developmental research and program evaluation in youth and educational contexts.

  • Positive Youth Development in 2020: Theory, Research, Programs, and the Promotion of Social Justice (2021), Journal of Research on Adolescence
  • Critical consciousness in late adolescence: Understanding if, how, and why youth act (2020), Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology
  • Nature as an Ecological Asset for Positive Youth Development: Empirical Evidence From Rural Communities (2021), Frontiers in Psychology
  • Influence of educator's emotional support behaviors on environmental education student outcomes (2020), Environmental Education Research
  • A randomized study of CrossFit Kids for fostering fitness and academic outcomes in middle school students (2020), Evaluation and Program Planning

They have frequently collaborated with co-authors including Barry A. Garst, William H. Quinn, Benjamin J. Parry, Lauren E. Stephens, and G. John Geldhof. These partnerships suggest interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches to youth development and education research.

Best Publications

  • Positive Youth Development

    Jacqueline V. Lerner;Erin Phelps;Yulika E. Forman;Edmond P. Bowers

  • The Five Cs Model of Positive Youth Development: A Longitudinal Analysis of Confirmatory Factor Structure and Measurement Invariance

    Edmond P. Bowers;Yibing Li;Megan K. Kiely;Aerika Brittian

  • Positive Youth Development and Relational-Developmental-Systems

    Richard M. Lerner;Jacqueline V. Lerner;Edmond P. Bowers;G. John Geldhof

  • Creation of short and very short measures of the five Cs of positive youth development

    G. J. Geldhof;Edmond P. Bowers;Michelle J. Boyd;Megan K. Mueller

  • Outdoor Time, Screen Time, and Connection to Nature: Troubling Trends Among Rural Youth?:

    Lincoln R. Larson;Rachel Szczytko;Edmond P. Bowers;Lauren E. Stephens

  • Positive Youth Development: Processes, Programs, and Problematics

    Richard M. Lerner;Jacqueline V. Lerner;Selva Lewin-Bizan;Edmond P. Bowers

  • Individual and Contextual Bases of Thriving in Adolescence: A View of the Issues.

    Richard M. Lerner;Jacqueline V. Lerner;Alexander von Eye;Edmond P. Bowers

  • The relation between teacher input and lexical growth of preschoolers.

    Edmond P. Bowers;Marina Vasilyeva

  • One good thing leads to another: Cascades of positive youth development among American adolescents

    Selva Lewin-Bizan;Edmond P. Bowers;Richard M. Lerner

  • Special issue introduction: the meaning and measurement of thriving: a view of the issues.

    Richard M. Lerner;Alexander von Eye;Jacqueline V. Lerner;Selva Lewin-Bizan

  • The role of school engagement in preventing adolescent delinquency and substance use: A survival analysis

    Yibing Li;Weigang Zhang;Jianjun Liu;Miriam R. Arbeit

  • Youth Development Program Participation and Intentional Self-Regulation Skills: Contextual and Individual Bases of Pathways to Positive Youth Development.

    Megan Kiely Mueller;Erin Phelps;Edmond P. Bowers;Jennifer P. Agans

  • Positive youth development: Processes, philosophies, and programs.

    Jacqueline V. Lerner;Edmond P. Bowers;Kelly Minor;Michelle J. Boyd

  • Cross-linguistic syntactic priming in bilingual children

    Marina Vasilyeva;Heidi Waterfall;Perla B. Gámez;Ligia E. Gómez

  • Developmental trajectories of intentional self regulation in adolescence: the role of parenting and implications for positive and problematic outcomes among diverse youth.

    Edmond P. Bowers;Steinunn Gestsdottir;G. John Geldhof;Jana Nikitin

  • Positive Youth Development in 2020: Theory, Research, Programs, and the Promotion of Social Justice.

    Richard M Lerner;Jacqueline V Lerner;Velma McBride Murry;Emilie Phillips Smith

  • Promoting positive youth development in the face of contextual changes and challenges: the roles of individual strengths and ecological assets.

    Richard M. Lerner;Edmond P. Bowers;G. John Geldhof;Steinunn Gestsdóttir

  • Longitudinal Analysis of a Very Short Measure of Positive Youth Development

    G. John Geldhof;Edmond P. Bowers;Megan Kiely Mueller;Christopher Michael Napolitano

  • Intentional self regulation in middle adolescence: the emerging role of loss-based selection in positive youth development.

    Steinunn Gestsdottir;Edmond Bowers;Alexander von Eye;Christopher M. Napolitano

  • Important non-parental adults and positive youth development across mid- to late-adolescence: the moderating effect of parenting profiles.

    Edmond P. Bowers;Sara K. Johnson;Mary H. Buckingham;Santiago Gasca

  • Special Section Introduction: Thriving in Context: Findings from the 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development

    G. John Geldhof;Edmond P. Bowers;Richard M. Lerner

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard M. Lerner
Richard M. Lerner Tufts University
Jacqueline V. Lerner
Jacqueline V. Lerner Boston College
G. John Geldhof
G. John Geldhof Oregon State University
Alexander von Eye
Alexander von Eye Michigan State University
Velma McBride Murry
Velma McBride Murry Vanderbilt University
Heidi M. Zinzow
Heidi M. Zinzow Clemson University
Emilie Phillips Smith
Emilie Phillips Smith University of Georgia
Martie P. Thompson
Martie P. Thompson Appalachian State University
Seth J. Schwartz
Seth J. Schwartz The University of Texas at Austin
Michelle M. Martel
Michelle M. Martel University of Kentucky

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