This study examined whether dropping out of non-sport organized activities predicted increased externalizing behaviors and if youth attending socioeconomically disadvantaged schools were disproportionately affected.
Participation in organized activities during adolescence is associated with many positive psychological and social outcomes.
In today’s service society, adolescents come into contact with money and financial products and services earlier and earlier.
Ensuring that young people are financially literate is increasingly important as the current economic climate requires them to engage in complex financial decision making. The current study explored the role of informal learning opportunities in the acquisition of financial literacy among youth.
Using the family financial socialization theory, this study investigated the financial knowledge and behavior of high school students’ contextualizing unintentional and purposive family financial socialization.
Financial socialization plays an important role in the development of financial knowledge and behaviors in youth.
Public health practice involving adolescents is largely focused on preventing or delaying the initiation of risk behavior. However, given the experimental and exploratory nature of this developmental period, this is often impractical.