Leisure activities and adolescent antisocial behavior: the role of structure and social context.

By J. L. Mahoney, Håkan Stattin. Journal des adolescens, 2000

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Engagement in School and Out-of-School Contexts: A Multidimensional View of Engagement (2011, background): “In general, involvement in organized out-of-school contexts is associated with positive academic achievement, social development, and psychological functioning; participation in unsupervised and/or unstructured contexts in the after school hours is related to higher risk behavior and poorer academic”
The Multiple Contexts of Middle Childhood. (2004, background): “Children living in these neighborhoods who participate in such extracurricular activities are less likely to engage in antisocial behavior.(34) In contrast, low-income neighborhoods tend to offer fewer enrichment activities for youth.”
The Effectiveness of Teaching a Life Skills Program in a Sport Context (2005, background): “Researchers who have studied the effects of participation in sport have found both positive and negative effects ( Mahoney & Stattin, 2000 ; Strean & Garcia Bengoechea, 2001 ).”
Youth recreation centre participation and criminal offending: A 20-year longitudinal study of Swedish boys (2001, background): “Stattin, Magnusson, and Reichel (1986) compared rates of criminality in Örebro with other major cities in Sweden, and with the nation as a whole, across the years 1965–1980.”
A new view: exploring positive youth development in elite sport contexts (2011, background): “Further, involvement in highly structured leisure programmes has been linked to lower levels of antisocial behaviour in youth (Mahoney and Stattin 2000).”
The Role of School-Based Extracurricular Activities in Adolescent Development: A Comprehensive Review and Future Directions (2005, background): “More recent research has shown that participation in other highly structured activities, including band, orchestra, chorus, plays, and musicals, is associated with lower levels of delinquency (Mahoney, 2000; Mahoney & Stattin, 2000; Zill et al., 1995).”
Reciprocal Effects Between Parental Solicitation, Parental Control, Adolescent Disclosure, and Adolescent Delinquency (2010, background): “In these unsupervised settings, such as street corners and cafeterias, the risk of becoming involved in problem behavior is higher (Kerr et al., 2003; Mahoney & Stattin, 2000).”
Parental monitoring and adolescent problem behaviors (2016, background): “An increase in unsupervised and unstructured leisure time may provide opportunities to experiment with shoplifting, vandalism, or other types of minor delinquencies (e.g., Moffitt, 1993; Mahoney & Stattin, 2000).”
Deviant Peer Influences in Intervention and Public Policy for Youth (2006, background): “Active supervision by adults who can monitor behavior and serve as mentors is also an important feature of successful community programs (Mahoney & Stattin, 2000).”
Implications of Extracurricular Activity Participation During Adolescence on Positive Outcomes (2003, background): “First, data were many times not longitudinal (e.g., Cooper et al, 1999; Mahoney & Stattin, 2000; Miller 602 JOURNAL OF ADOLESCENT RESEARCH / November 2003 et al., 1998; Youniss et al., 1999), and therefore causal ordering cannot be inferred.”
The educational benefits claimed for physical education and school sport: an academic review (2009, background): “Strean and Garcia Bengoechea ( 2001 ) concluded that it is the individual’s experience of sport that determines whether participation is viewed as positive or negative, whilst Mahoney and Stattin ( 2000 ) contended that the structure and context of the activity is important in determining whether pa”
Unstructured youth recreation centre participation and antisocial behaviour development: Selection influences and the moderating role of antisocial peers (2004, background): “The initial investigation of the Swedish YRCs involved a cross-sectional study of 703 eighth-grade boys and girls (Mahoney & Stattin, 2000).”