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- Title
School-year employment among high school students: effects on academic, social, and physical functioning.
- Authors
Weller NF; Cooper SP; Basen-Engquist K; Kelder SH; Tortolero SR
- Abstract
This study describes the effects of different weekly work intensity levels on adolescent functioning in a sample of 3,083 high school students in rural South Texas, where economically disadvantaged and Hispanic youth are heavily represented. Anonymous surveys were conducted in 10th-and 12th-grade students' classrooms in 1995. The following effects were associated with long hours of weekly employment during the school year: (1) decreased performance/engagement in school and satisfaction with amount of leisure time, and (2) increased health risk behaviors and psychological stress. The effects of school-year work on academic factors and health behaviors differed by grade, but not by race/ethnicity, parent education, or race/ethnicity and parent education considered together. It was concluded that parents and professionals should continue to monitor the number of weekly hours that students work during the school year.
- Publication
Adolescence, 2003, Vol 38, Issue 151, p441
- ISSN
0001-8449
- Publication type
Academic Journal