HDF 306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Internet Addiction Disorder, Social Learning Theory, Stress Management
27 Dec 2016
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The rate of adolescent"s employment has gone down since 1985: the retraction of the service economy, more demands from schools. Expanding universe of leisure activities (e. g. internet, tv) Work condition: allow adolescents to learn how to make decisions, allow adolescents to perform challenging tasks provide them with guidance. Parent: monitor adolescents" work, guide adolescents to manage income. Work conditions that hinder development of responsibility: stressful but without guidance, repetitive and unchallenging. Stressful and unsupervised workplace: on average, 230,000 adolescents are injured in the workplace per year. How does teenage employment impact schooling (academic performance): working long hours. Does teenage employment promote problem bx such as smoking or drinking: working long hours. More chance of hanging out with adults. Problem bx (smoking, drinking, and use of drugs) Structures leisure activities: examples: school-based or community-based extracurricular activities, on average, adolescents who attend structured leisure activities tend to have better: Learn skills in social interaction, such as conflict resolution.
