Ecologically, we assess the contexts of the individual, peers, family, school, community, and culture. In the study of health and development among diverse youth and emerging adults, we use an ecological theoretical approach as well as PYD frameworks, such as Geldhof and colleagues’ 5Cs of PYD and the Search Institute’s Developmental Asset Profile. In particular, we take a positive and protective approach in the study of our target populations, thus departing from the domineering deficit focus on youth, while presenting a novel collection of studies on youth and emerging adults. With contributions from CN-PYD research partners and no-partners, we seek to present the direct and indirect effects of these personal and contextual factors using samples that reflect diverse cultures and contexts. For the proposed Research Topic, our aim is to bring together a collection of studies that examine personal resources related to competencies, skills, and self-perception as well as environmental, contextual, and relational features of the social contexts of youth and emerging adults on health and development. In so doing, the cross-national project adopts a more comprehensive perspective, embracing both negative and positive developmental processes in the study of youth development. The promotive and protective effects of personal strengths, contextual resources, as well as the alignment of these two sets of factors are also considered in CN-PYD. The goal of the cross-national project is to investigate the role of personal strengths and contextual resources in the promotion of health and development among youth and emerging adults, as well as the consequential contribution to self and society. In contrast to the deficit approach that has labelled and handled the period of adolescence as being inherently laden with problems and risks (Lerner et al., 2016), CN-PYD uses a strengths-based approach to the conceptualization of youth as resources and agentic. CN-PYD was initiated in 2014 at the University of Bergen and has an ongoing data collection that involves over 15,000 minority and majority youth and emerging adults (ages 16 to 29) living in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Middle East, New Zealand, North and South America. Unravelling them will be important for discerning potential future scenarios, such as the first wave in virgin territories still untouched by COVID-19 and for future waves elsewhere.Core contributors to the current Research Topic: “Youth, Health and Development in Diverse Cultures and Contexts” will be research partners of the Cross-National Project on Positive Youth Development (CN-PYD), who represent an international and multidisciplinary panel of experts on youth development. These unknowns and uncertainties require a deeper understanding of the variable trajectories of COVID-19. This paper tries to make sense of this variability-by exploring the important role that context plays in these different COVID-19 epidemics by comparing COVID-19 epidemics with other respiratory diseases, including other coronaviruses that circulate continuously and by highlighting the critical unknowns and uncertainties that remain. Learning from the variety of ways the COVID-19 epidemic is unfolding across the globe can potentially contribute to solving the COVID-19 puzzle. But important knowledge gaps remain (unknowns). In only a few months, an enormous amount of scientific evidence on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 has been uncovered (knowns). But this variety of global trajectories is little described, analysed or understood. Until now, the insights gained on COVID-19 have been largely dominated by the COVID-19 epidemics and the lockdowns in China, Europe and the USA. However, in different countries, the COVID-19 epidemic takes variable shapes and forms in how it affects communities.
Since its emergence in Wuhan, China, in late 2019, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes COVID-19, has spread to nearly all countries of the world in only a few months. It is very exceptional that a new disease becomes a true pandemic.
By Wim Van Damme, Ritwik Dahake, Alexandre Delamou, Brecht Ingelbeen, Edwin Wouters, Guido Vanham, Remco van de Pas, Jean-Paul Dossou, Por Ir, Seye Abimbola, Stefaan Van der Borght, Devadasan Narayanan, Gerald Bloom, Ian Van Engelgem, Mohamed Ali Ag Ahmed, Joël Arthur Kiendrébéogo, Kristien Verdonck, Vincent De Brouwere, Kéfilath Bello, Helmut Kloos, Peter Aaby, Andreas Kalk, Sameh Al-Awlaqi, NS Prashanth, Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum, Placide Mbala, Steve Ahuka-Mundeke, Yibeltal Assefa
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