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Society for Research on Adolescence Annual Meeting

On March 24, 2006, Harvard Family Research Project organized the symposium Critical Issues in Adolescent Participation in Out-of-School Time Activities at the annual meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence. This symposium featured findings from several studies funded by the William T. Grant Foundation on youth participation in out-of-school time activities, including contextual predictors, youth engagement, program quality, duration of participation, and youth outcomes. Heather Weiss chaired the session, Robert Granger served as discussant, and Chris Wimer, Reed Larson, Deborah Vandell, and Jodie Roth presented papers.

Read the presentations from the Critical Issues in Adolescent Participation in Out-of-School Time Activities symposium:

• Adolescent Out-of-School Time Participation: Contextual Predictors and Developmental Differences by Christopher Wimer and Sandra Simpkins

• A Multilevel Analysis of the Links Between Youth’s After-School Time Activities and Their Well-Being by Rebecca Fauth, Jodie Roth, and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

• From Participation to Engagement: How Youth Get Turned on in OST Programs by Reed Larson and Nickki Pearce

• Developmental Outcomes Associated With the After-School Contexts of Low-Income Children and Youth by Deborah Lowe Vandell and Elizabeth Reisner

Chris Wimer of HFRP also presented a poster at the conference entitled Family Socioeconomic and Neighborhood Conditions as Predictors of Out-of-School Time Activity Participation. This study examined disadvantage at the family and neighborhood level and its association with participation in out-of-school time activities. Neighborhood socioeconomic characteristics (i.e., income, education, and employment) were found to mediate the association between family income, parent education, and ethnicity and children's participation in a variety of activities outside of school.