chapter 7 Flashcards
while it is possible for an adolescent to benefit psychologically from working, …
it is not probable
most common adol jobs fast-food restaurants or retail stores problem with this
—ranked highest in stress and in interference with other parts of life, and lowest in their likelihood of providing skills or leading to a career
Working long hours takes an especially bad toll on achievement among low income families
f Working long hours takes an especially bad toll on achievement among White and Asian students from middle-class families
Employed students often protect their grades by …3
cutting corners, taking easier classes, and cheating
The impact of working on students’ actual grades and achievement test scores is large
f small
When large numbers of students in a school are employed, even those who don’t have jobs can be affected indirectly how
Some teachers have responded by lowering classroom expectations, assigning less homework, and using class time for students to complete assignments that otherwise would be done outside of school
keeping teenagers busy with work keeps them out of trouble.
f
the teenage work and substance use correlation disappears over time
f People who worked long hours as teenagers drink and use drugs more in their late 20s than their peers who worked less or not at all
who does working have more positive effects for
mixed results but has special benefits for inner-city adolescents from single-parent families, from poor families, with poor school records, or with histories of delinquency
In sum, although teenagers generally enjoy working, there is little evidence, with the exception of …, that doing so contributes in significant ways to their psychosocial development
disadvantaged inner-city youth
cycle of adol employment and school decline?
Adolescents who are less attached and committed to school, and who are more involved in problem behavior, are more likely to choose to work long hours. Working long hours, in turn, leads to more disengagement from school and increased problem behavior
intensive employment during the school year most threatens the school performance and psychological well-being of those students who can …
least afford to suffer the consequences of overcommitment to a job.
how much time spent in leisure activities
nearly half of waking hors
what defines a leisure activity
they choose how they spend this time
Between grades 5 and 9, adolescents’ moods while with … become more positive, whereas their moods while with their …become more negative between elementary and middle school (between grades 5 and 7) and then rise between ….
friends
family
middle school and high school
which 2 extracurricular best for psychology development
structured extra
such thing as too much extracurricular involvement
no
Studies have found benefits of participating in structured extracurricular activities as many as 8 years after high school graduation for which activities
only among individuals whose activities were school-sponsore= attachment to school =edu success
relationship with adults in program
One study of a high school … also found that the experience contributed in important ways to adolescents’ emotional development
theater production
… of all adolescent athletes say they’ve been deliberately injured by an opponent
One-third
when is spending time in a adol recreation centre bad
when time is unstructured and unsupervised
Adolescents who spend five or more evenings out in an average week are at least … times more likely to be involved in antisocial activity than those who go out less than twice a week
4
delinquency is more common on weekday afternoons than at any other time why
out of school parents at work
In 2016, more than …% of mothers with children between ages 6 and 17, and more than …% of fathers with children this age, were employed
75
80