Research on the 40 Developmental Assets

The framework of Developmental Assets offers a way of understanding the strengths young people need in their lives to grow up healthy and responsible. In addition, we begin to see the real power and meaning in this conceptualization when we measure the presence, or absence, of these assets in young people's lives.

Check out the following links for further information on this ongoing research effort: 

• Background and history of Search Institute's research efforts
• Profiles of Student Life: Attitudes and Behaviors: The 2003 Dataset
• Percentages of 6th- to 12th-grade youth experiencing each asset 
• The power of assets 
• Levels of assets among young people 
• Peer-reviewed Articles and Dissertations (PDF)

Additional Resources

• Read about Search Institute's full range of knowledge-generating research.
  
• View a bibliography of publications based on Search Institute's applied research.
• Learn more about surveying young people in your community.