The Role of Intentional Self Regulation, Lower Neighborhood Ecological Assets, and Activity Involvement in Youth Developmental Outcomes

Autor/inn/en	Urban, Jennifer Brown; Lewin-Bizan, Selva; Lerner, Richard M.
Titel	The Role of Intentional Self Regulation, Lower Neighborhood Ecological Assets, and Activity Involvement in Youth Developmental Outcomes
Quelle	In: Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 39 (2010) 7, S.783-800 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0047-2891
DOI	10.1007/s10964-010-9549-y
Schlagwörter	Neighborhoods; Extracurricular Activities; American Indians; Asian Americans; African Americans; Role; Intention; Adolescent Development; Whites; Hispanic Americans; Student Participation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Neighbourhoods; Nachbarschaft; Außerunterrichtliche Aktivität; American Indian; Indianer; Asian immigrant; United States; Asiatischer Einwanderer; USA; Afroamerikaner; Rollen; White; Weißer; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Schülermitarbeit; Schülermitwirkung; Studentische Mitbestimmung
Abstract	Extracurricular activities provide a key context for youth development, and participation has been linked with positive developmental outcomes. Using data from the 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development (PYD), this study explored how the intentional self regulation ability of youth interacted with participation in extracurricular activities to affect PYD among adolescents living in neighborhoods with relatively low ecological assets. In total, 545 youth were included in the study (50.3% female). Most of the youth were European American (41%) or Latino (37%; African American, 10%; Asian American, 7%; Native American, 4%; and other, 1%). In general, youth with the greatest capacity to self regulate benefitted the most, as compared to their peers with less capacity to self regulate, from involvement in extracurricular activities. Consistent with a developmental systems perspective, and specifically with bioecological theory, the findings from this study confirmed that, within lower asset settings, children with the most positive person-level factors (intentional self regulation) benefit the most from proximal processes such as extracurricular activity involvement. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10