Benefits of Extracurricular Participation in Early Adolescence: Associations with Peer Belonging and Mental Health.
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 developmen...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Youth & Adolescence Vol. 48; no. 11; pp. 2255 - 2271 |
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