This special issue is devoted to the topic of "risk and resilience" in human development, a topic that epitomizes the complexity of human development as a process of constancy and change throughout life. The three empirical papers in this issue represent strong contributions to the growing corpus of research on risk and resilience in human development. The first one focuses on the uniquely vulnerable population of urban ethnic minority adolescent males. The second paper focuses on the risk and resilience from trauma in a sample of mostly Caucasian individuals from rural Iowa, who...

There is a new generation of research in which scholars are investigating mental health and human development as not merely the absence of illness or dysfunction, but also the presence of subjective well-being. Subjective well-being is a fundamental facet of the quality of life. The quality of an individual s life can be assessed externally and objectively or internally and subjectively. From an objective standpoint, other people measure and judge another s life according to criteria such as wealth or income, educational attainment, occupational prestige, and health status or longevity....

There is a new generation of research in which scholars are investigating mental health and human development as not merely the absence of illness or dysfunction, but also the presence of subjective well-being. Subjective well-being is a fundamental facet of the quality of life. The quality of an individual s life can be assessed externally and objectively or internally and subjectively. From an objective standpoint, other people measure and judge another s life according to criteria such as wealth or income, educational attainment, occupational prestige, and health status or longevity....