Assets are internal and resources are external protective factors for youth.

Evidence

A strengths-based approach builds upon the individual’s strengths and promotive factors and sees the individual as resourceful, resilient, and unique (McCashen, 2017). Assets and resources are two types of promotive factors that can provide youth with individual and contextual attributes that are necessary for a positive and healthy development (Fergus and Zimmerman, 2005). Assets refer to positive factors, such as self-efficacy and self-esteem, that reside within individuals. Resources, on the other hand, refer to external or communal factors such as parental support, adult mentors, and youth programs that serve to enhance an individual’s sense of self as they generate strategies and solutions for the multiracial person to overcome adversity (e.g., racism) in their social context. — Tatiana I. Zamora and Amado M. Padilla, Making sense of conflicting messages of…, 46

Categorization

• DEFINE: Draws the standard assets-vs-resources distinction in promotive-factor theory, useful scaffolding for parsing solidarity mechanisms as internal or external.
• XREF: connects to: Youth work can counter radicalization and protect clients from exploitation — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice: How to Communicate…, 701; Becoming an asset exceeds property relations and needs separation from socio-material context — Paul Langley, Assets and Assetization in…, 27

Broader Connections

• Becoming an asset exceeds property relations and needs separation from socio-material context #complicates (0.74) — Paul Langley, Assets and Assetization in…, 27
• Youth work can counter radicalization and protect clients from exploitation #exemplifies (0.72) — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 701