How do youth choose activities? Assessing the relative importance of the micro-selection mechanisms behind adolescent extracurricular activity participation

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
David R. Schaefer ◽  
Thoa V. Khuu ◽  
J. Ashwin Rambaran ◽  
Deborah Rivas-Drake ◽  
Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Activity Participation ◽  
Extracurricular Activity ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Selection Mechanisms

Extracurricular Activity Intensity and Adolescent Risk-Taking: Exploring Interactive Effects of Contextual Risk and Coping Efficacy

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-77
Author(s):  
Gabriel P. Heaslip ◽  
Bonnie L. Barber
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Interactive Effects ◽  
Activity Participation ◽  
Extracurricular Activity ◽  
At Risk Youth ◽  
Coping Efficacy ◽  
Risky Behaviour ◽  
Contextual Risk ◽  
Activity Intensity ◽  
Adolescent Risk

Adolescence is a period of heightened risk-taking. Therefore it is important to investigate positive settings that can facilitate healthy adolescent development and reduce risk-taking behaviour. This study investigated the relations between non-sporting extracurricular activity participation intensity and risky behaviour. Adolescents’ coping efficacy was tested as a moderator between extracurricular activity participation and risk-taking among adolescents at different levels of contextual risk. Adolescents (N = 1,599) across Western Australia were surveyed. Results for moderately at-risk youth indicated a significant interaction, such that greater activity intensity was associated with less risk-taking for adolescents with higher coping efficacy. However, higher intensity activity participation predicted more risk-taking for adolescents with low coping efficacy.

scholarly journals Associations between extracurricular activity participation and health-related variables in underrepresented children

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-108
Author(s):  
Jeanette M. Ricci ◽  
Kimberly A. Clevenger ◽  
Sandra Sellers ◽  
Sharon Davenport ◽  
Karin A. Pfeiffer
Keyword(s):  
Activity Participation ◽  
Extracurricular Activity ◽  
Health Related
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