Australian Adolescents' Extracurricular Activity Participation and Positive Development: Is the Relationship Mediated by Peer Attributes?

Autor/inn/en	Blomfield, Corey; Barber, Bonnie
Titel	Australian Adolescents' Extracurricular Activity Participation and Positive Development: Is the Relationship Mediated by Peer Attributes?
Quelle	In: Australian Journal of Educational & Developmental Psychology, 10 (2010), S.114-128 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1446-5442
Schlagwörter	Adolescents; High School Students; Extracurricular Activities; Participation; Adolescent Development; Peer Influence; Individual Characteristics; Team Sports; Drinking; Foreign Countries; Academic Aspiration; Student School Relationship; Risk; Truancy; Athletics; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Außerunterrichtliche Aktivität; Teilnahme; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Mannschaftssport; Trinken; Ausland; Schüler-Lehrer-Beziehung; Risiko; Schulabsentismus; Schulschwänzen; Schulverweigerung; Leichtathletik; Australien
Abstract	Adolescent participation in extracurricular activities is associated with numerous positive outcomes, yet the mechanisms underlying this relationship are largely unknown. This study had two goals: to investigate the association between participation in extracurricular activities and indicators of positive and negative development for Australian adolescents; and to determine if these associations were mediated by the characteristics of adolescents' friends. Extracurricular participation was positively associated with higher academic track enrolment, university aspirations, and school belonging, and negatively associated with skipping school; participation in team sports was related to greater alcohol use. In addition, friend characteristics were found to mediate the association between activity participation and developmental indicators. (Contains 5 tables and 3 footnotes.) (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	University of Newcastle. School of Education, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia. e-mail: ajedp@newcastle.edu.au; Web site: http://www.newcastle.edu.au/group/ajedp
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10