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ArticleJournal of youth and adolescence2019

Benefits of Extracurricular Participation in Early Adolescence: Associations with Peer Belonging and Mental Health.

Eva Oberle, Xuejun Ryan Ji, Martin Guhn, Kimberly A Schonert-Reichl, Anne M Gadermann

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Article in Journal of youth and adolescence, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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47citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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47 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 130 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Eva OberleSchool of Population and Public Health, The Human Early Learning Partnership, Faculty of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, 2206 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z3, Canada. eva.oberle@ubc.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7815-2563
Xuejun Ryan JiDepartment of Educational and Counselling Psychology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Martin GuhnSchool of Population and Public Health, The Human Early Learning Partnership, Faculty of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, 2206 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z3, Canada.
Kimberly A Schonert-ReichlSchool of Population and Public Health, The Human Early Learning Partnership, Faculty of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, 2206 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z3, Canada.
Anne M GadermannSchool of Population and Public Health, The Human Early Learning Partnership, Faculty of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, 2206 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z3, Canada.
University of British Columbia · CA

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Extracurricular participation plays an important role in positive youth development. Yet, little is known about the stability and change in extracurricular participation from middle childhood to early adolescence. Also, there is a gap in knowledge about the underlying processes that drive developmental outcomes associated with extracurricular participation. The present study examined transitions in extracurricular participation from grade 4 to 7, and investigated whether shifting from non-participation to participation in activities was associated with better mental health, considering peer belonging as a mediator. Latent Class Analyses of early adolescents' (50% female) self-reports on the Middle Years Development Instrument in grades 4 and 7 (N = 10,149) revealed four clusters of extracurricular involvement at both grade levels (i.e., "no activities", "all activities", "sports only", "individual activities"). Latent Transition Analysis showed that young people were most likely to stay in the same activities cluster from grade 4 to 7. About 10% were non-participants in grade 4 and had moved to activities by grade 7. In this subgroup, moving from non-participation to both sports and to all activities was associated with better mental health over time; this pathway was fully mediated by higher levels of peer belonging. The results suggest that supporting non-participants to join extracurricular activities can have implications for their mental health. Practical implications for communities, such as removing potential barriers to involvement before the onset of adolescence, are discussed.

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Mental HealthAdolescentAdolescent BehaviorChildFemaleHumansLeisure ActivitiesMalePeer GroupQuebecSocial ParticipationSportsStudentsEarly adolescenceExtracurricular activitiesLatent transition analysisMiddle childhoodPositive and negative mental health

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PMID31440881
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