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CH 7. Work, Leisure, and Mass Media. Today’s Teens. Spend more time in leisure activities Than in “productive” school activities Spend more time alone Than with family members Spend 4 times as many hours at part-time jobs As they do on homework. Patterns of Time Use. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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WORK, LEISURE, AND MASS MEDIA
CH 7
Today’s Teens
Spend more time in leisure activities Than in “productive” school activities
Spend more time alone Than with family members
Spend 4 times as many hours at part-time jobs As they do on homework
Patterns of Time Use
47%
29%
24%
Suburban, middle-class, white teenagers
Leisure (T.V., mu-sic, talking, playing games or sports, thinking, etc.)
Productive (class-work, homework, extracurricular or religious activities, etc.)
Maintenance (eat-ing, resting, doing chores or errands, personal mainte-nance, etc.)
Patterns of Time Use (continued) Suburban, middle-class, white
teenagers, and urban, poor, African American teenagers have very similar time allocation.
~50% Leisure, 24% Maintenance, 20-28% Productive
Differences in Contemporary Society American adolescents spend more
time on leisure, less time in productive activities, than peers in other countries
ExampleAverage American high school student
spends < 5 hours per week on homework
In Asian countries a student spends 4 to 5 hours per day on homework
Differences in Contemporary Society (continued) Industrialized countries
75% of U.S. high school juniors hold jobs during the school year
25% of Japanese and Taiwanese juniors do so
Paid employment is even rarer in most European countries
Structured apprenticeship programs in career-related jobs more common in other countries
Beneficialor
Detrimental?
Adolescents and Work:
Work At any point during the school year, 6
million American high school teenagers will be working.
But where at? Over the age of 16? Under the age of 16?
• Most people believe that working helps teens build character, teaches them about the real world, and prepares them for adulthood
• But recent studies show that benefits of working during adolescence have been overstated
Adolescents and Work:
While this may be true… Working 20+ hours a week can be
detrimental to adolescents. Lowers school performance Lowers enjoyment of school Decreases time spent on homework Lessens involvement in extracurricular
activities Increases absenteeism
Adolescents and Work:
Problem Behavior Time-honored belief: Working will deter
teens from criminal activity by keeping them out of trouble
Research findings: Working long hours may actually be associated with increases in aggression school misconduct precocious sexual activity minor delinquency
Adolescents and Work:
Problem Behavior Differential Impact:
Middle-Class vs. Poor Youth Poor youth – working may not lead to
problem behavior – WHY? Working during junior high may increase
chances of problem behavior as opposed to working later in high school—working early may make school seem less important
Adolescents and Work:
Adolescents and Mass Media: The average adolescent spends more than
7 hours each day using one or more media
The average teenager spends over 50 hours a week using digital media, more than a full-time job!
Many adolescents view TV, listen to music, get on the internet, and play video games, all from their bedrooms
This context makes parental monitoring more difficult
Videos
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/living-faster/split-focus/how-do-teens-do-homework-today.html?play
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/living-faster/digital-natives/rewiring-young-brains.html
Adolescents and Mass Media: Discussion How does all of this media intake
impact adolescents? Food for Thought: Politicians often
argue that adolescents’ development is being adversely affected by the mass media. How do you respond to these claims?
Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzEOZF9MNS0
70% of prime time television contains sexual themesObjectification of women, sex as a symbol of masculinity, sex as competitionHow often are consequences shown?
Media Impact on Sexual Themes
The Adolescent Consumer
The average adolescent has more than $400 in spending money per month. In 2008 Teenagers were projected to
spend more than $200 billion
Perceived Effect of Social Networking
Makes them feel: More LessConfident 20% 4%Depressed 5% 10%Outgoing 8% 5%Popular 9% 4%Shy 3% 29%Sympathetic to other 19% 7%Better about themselves
15% 4%
Source: Common Sense Study, July 2012
2012 Freshman Technology survey 641 students Taken during Freshman Orientation in
Summer 2012 90% brought Laptops 43% on Mac 43% on Windows 92% Facebook Users 63% prefer to use St. Ed’s account
when contacting a professor Survey Site
Your personality on facebook Study done by Gwendolyn Seidman Motivation vs Behaviors based on the BIG
5 High Extraversion vs High Neuroticism High Conscientiousness and photo sharing Study revealed more about motivations
than behaviors Agreeableness vs Neuroticism
Seidman, G., (2013). Self-presentation and belonging on Facebook: Howpersonality influences social media use and motivations.
Personality and Individual Differences, 54, 402-407.
Effect of media Based on the statistics of how much
time people spend online and with media every day, what are your opinions on this video