Meaningful Activity Participation and Positive Youth Development

Barber, Bonnie L.; Abbott, B.D.; Neira, Corey J. Blomfield; Eccles, Jacquelynne S.

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“…It is not yet clear what ''active ingredients'' enable program change within structured activity settings (Feldman and Matjasko 2007;Williamson et al 2015). Given the fairly robust positive effects of activities shown in this study and others (see Barber et al 2014 for a review), this question is worthy of future attention. Our findings make clear that it is not merely the diligent and hard-working adolescents who receive prosocial benefit from extracurricular activities.…”

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“…In general, adolescent participation in activities-including participation in performing arts, service clubs, and academic clubs-predicts an array of positive developmental outcomes, including better grades, self-esteem, civic engagement, and leadership qualities (see Barber et al 2014 for a review). Participation in these settings also protects adolescents against risky behavior and substance use (Eccles and Barber 1999;Feldman and Matjasko 2005;Mahoney et al 2005).…”

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Participation in Organized Activities Protects Against Adolescents’ Risky Substance Use, Even Beyond Development in Conscientiousness

McCabe

Modecki

Barber

2016

J Youth Adolescence

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Adolescents are at a significant risk for binge drinking and illicit drug use. One way to protect against these behaviors is through participation in extracurricular activities. However, there is a debate about whether highly conscientious adolescents are more likely to participate in activities, which raises the concern of a confound. To disentangle these relationships, we tested the latent trajectories of substance use and personality across 3 years, with participation in activities and sports as time-varying predictors. We surveyed 687 adolescents (55 % female, 85.4 % Caucasian) in Western Australia schools across 3 years. At Time 1, the students were in Year 10 1 (mean age 15 years). The results showed that participation in activities and conscientiousness are related, but each uniquely predicts slower growth in substance use. Across waves, participation in activities predicted less risky substance use a year later, over and above conscientiousness development. These results suggest that there may be unique benefits of participation in activities that protect against risky substance use.

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Participation in Organized Activities Protects Against Adolescents’ Risky Substance Use, Even Beyond Development in Conscientiousness

McCabe

Modecki

Barber

2016

J Youth Adolescence

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“…Second, because researchers have found low organised sports participation levels among disadvantaged youth in general and girls in particular (e.g., Sabo & Veliz, 2008). The low participation of disadvantaged girls in sport is of further concern as it has been indicated that involvement in organised sport can be very beneficial for these youth (see Barber, Abbott, Neira, & Eccles, 2014). Most research on youth in sport has focused on white middle-class populations (Gould et al, 2012).…”

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What Makes a Difference for Disadvantaged Girls? Investigating the Interplay between Group Composition and Positive Youth Development in Sport

Schaillée

Theeboom

Cauwenberg

2015

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It has been suggested that group composition can influence the experiences of individual group members in social programmes (Weiss, 1998). The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between peer group composition in sports programmes and positive youth development (PYD) in disadvantaged girls, as well as to determine whether it was moderated by personal characteristics. Two hundred young women aged between 10 and 24 completed a questionnaire including, among others, the "Youth Experience Survey for Sport" (YES-S) (MacDonald, Côté, Eys, & Deakin, 2012) and questions regarding participants' socio-economic characteristics (i.e., nationality, education, family situation). Multilevel regression analyses were performed to take into account the hierarchical data structure. At the group level, a higher percentage of girls from a low educational track and with a migration background predicted greater PYD, as indicated by higher levels of personal and social skills, cognitive skills and goal setting. Results showed interaction effects between the respondents' family structures on the participant and team levels. The overall statistical models for the different developmental domains accounted for variance ranging from 14.7% (personal and social skills) to 30.3% (cognitive skills). Results indicated that the extent to which disadvantaged girls derive benefits from their participation in sport also depends on the group composition. The interaction effects between the group composition and individual characteristics suggest that when girls participate in a group of similar peers, those from non-intact families will derive more benefits than their counterparts from intact families.

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“…En el día a día del joven, el ocio es un espacio de vital importancia pues, en él, entre otras cosas, tiene más autonomía y control que en otros ámbi-tos de su cotidianidad (Barber, Abbott, Blomfield & Eccles, 2009;Silbereisen & Todt, 1994). Para ser más precisos, a través del ocio el joven satisface sus necesidades -de sentirse libre, descubrir intereses, percibir cambios y, en definitiva, vivir experiencias con sentido-, lo que puede contribuir al desarrollo positivo de la identidad y de las competencias necesarias para el mundo laboral (Barber et al, 2009;Coatsworth, Sharp, Palen, Darling, Cumsille & Marta, 2005;Codina, Pestana & Stebbins, 2017).…”

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“…Para ser más precisos, a través del ocio el joven satisface sus necesidades -de sentirse libre, descubrir intereses, percibir cambios y, en definitiva, vivir experiencias con sentido-, lo que puede contribuir al desarrollo positivo de la identidad y de las competencias necesarias para el mundo laboral (Barber et al, 2009;Coatsworth, Sharp, Palen, Darling, Cumsille & Marta, 2005;Codina, Pestana & Stebbins, 2017). En este sentido, entre los científicos hay un gran acuerdo en sostener que el ocio es una de las actividades que más contribuyen al desarrollo integral de los jóvenes (Caldwell & Faulk, 2013;Freire, 2013;Kleiber, 1999).…”

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Tiempos dedicados al ocio físico-deportivo y perspectivas temporales: (re)velando vulnerabilidades

Codina

León²

2018

Ped Soc. Rev Int

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PALABRAS CLAVE: ocio ocio físico-deportivo perspectiva temporal experiencia de ocio presupuesto de tiempo RESUMEN: El ocio es una de las actividades que más contribuyen con el desarrollo integral de la juventud, pero también puede ser fuente de problemas. Esta ambivalencia puede derivarse de las intensidades temporales con las que se practican o no ciertos ocios; y, asimismo, de las valoraciones personales que hace la propia persona de la actividad. Con base en estas ideas se analizan, en el contexto del ocio físico-deportivo, las relaciones entre dos concepciones de la temporalidad -tiempo invertido y perspectiva temporal-y la experiencia del dicho ocio en la cotidianidad -específicamente, la elección propia y la satisfacción percibidas. Los participantes fueron 147 jóvenes (63 chicas y 84 chicos) con edades comprendidas entre 18 y 24 años (M = 21,18 años; DT = 2,00). La información se recogió mediante dos instrumentos: un cuestionario ad hoc con características del Presupuesto de Tiempo y el Inventario de Perspectiva Temporal de Zimbardo (ZPTI). Los resultados indican que el tiempo invertido y la frecuencia semanal del ocio físico-deportivo son adecuados, si bien se observan diferencias entre chicas y chicos -y a favor de ellos-con respecto a la dedicación a esta actividad. Por lo que respecta a la perspectiva temporal, ésta se caracteriza por ser predominantemente positiva, observándose que las chicas presentaron menores valores en el pasado negativo con respecto a los chicos. Las interinfluencias entre la elección propia y la satisfacción experimentadas con el ocio físico-deportivo, con las vertientes positivas de las perspectivas temporales, apoyan la necesidad de estudiar el ocio como una manera de comportarse en el tiempo no comprometido -que se relaciona con determinadas actitudes positivas respecto al pasado, al presente y al futuro. En un sentido más general, las mencionadas interinfluencias abren nuevas perspectivas que podrían arrojar luz sobre las vulnerabilidades que puede (re)velar el ocio.

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Meaningful Activity Participation and Positive Youth Development

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Participation in Organized Activities Protects Against Adolescents’ Risky Substance Use, Even Beyond Development in Conscientiousness

Participation in Organized Activities Protects Against Adolescents’ Risky Substance Use, Even Beyond Development in Conscientiousness

What Makes a Difference for Disadvantaged Girls? Investigating the Interplay between Group Composition and Positive Youth Development in Sport

Tiempos dedicados al ocio físico-deportivo y perspectivas temporales: (re)velando vulnerabilidades

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