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Working and Growing up in America.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Adolescent Lives SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2003Copyright date: ©2003Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (298 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674041240
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Working and Growing up in AmericaDDC classification:
  • 331.3/47/0973
LOC classification:
  • HD6273
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Should Adolescents Work? -- 2. The Youth Development Study -- 3. Time Allocation and Quality of Work -- 4. The Ecology of Youthwork -- 5. Precursors of Investment in Work -- 6. Working and Adolescent Development -- 7. The Transition to Adulthood -- 8. Working and Becoming Adult -- Appendix: Panel Selection -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Summary: Should teenagers have jobs while they're in high school? Doesn't working distract them from schoolwork, cause long-term problem behaviors, and precipitate a "precocious" transition to adulthood? This report from a longitudinal study of 1,000 students, followed from the beginning of high school through their mid-twenties, answers, resoundingly, no.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Should Adolescents Work? -- 2. The Youth Development Study -- 3. Time Allocation and Quality of Work -- 4. The Ecology of Youthwork -- 5. Precursors of Investment in Work -- 6. Working and Adolescent Development -- 7. The Transition to Adulthood -- 8. Working and Becoming Adult -- Appendix: Panel Selection -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Should teenagers have jobs while they're in high school? Doesn't working distract them from schoolwork, cause long-term problem behaviors, and precipitate a "precocious" transition to adulthood? This report from a longitudinal study of 1,000 students, followed from the beginning of high school through their mid-twenties, answers, resoundingly, no.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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