Student Council, Volunteering, Basketball, or Marching Band: What Kind of Extracurricular Involvement Matters?

摘要: We examined the potential benefits and risks associated with participation in five types of activities: prosocial (church volunteer activities), team sports, school involvement, performing arts, academic clubs. Our sample included 1,259 mostly European American adolescents (approximately equal numbers males females). First, we explore link between involvement these activities our indicators positive negative development. Involvement was linked to educational trajectories low rates risky behaviors. In contrast, sports high one behavior, drinking alcohol. Then, two possible mediators associations: peer associations activity-based identity formation. The evidence supported hypothesis that group differences identities help explain activity diffe...