Development as Action in Context

Silbereisen, Rainer Κ.; Eyferth, Klaus

doi:10.1007/978-3-662-02475-1_1

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“…The development-as-action-in-context perspective first proffered by Silbereisen, Eyferth, and Rudinger (1986) is one way to make sense of the findings. The development-as-action-in-context perspective has since been extended to understand how development differentially occurs in different cultural contexts.…”

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Boredom Prone or Nothing to Do? Distinguishing Between State and Trait Leisure Boredom and Its Association with Substance Use in South African Adolescents

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Reducing adolescent substance use is important in South Africa, a developing nation with increasing adolescent substance use, lack of leisure/recreation opportunities, and high rates of adolescent discretionary time. Previous research suggests leisure boredom and adolescent substance use co-occur in this setting. Using longitudinal data from 2,580 SA adolescents as they progressed from the 8th to 11th grade, the current study disentangles the associations of trait and state leisure boredom with substance use, and examines how ability to restructure boring situations moderates those associations. On average, individuals with higher trait boredom used more substances, and on occasions when state boredom was high, the prototypical adolescent used more substances. Although restructuring did not moderate these associations, greater ability was associated with lower substance use independent of leisure boredom. Findings illustrated the importance of considering how trait and state aspects of leisure may contribute to adolescents’ risk behavior and addressed through preventive intervention.

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Boredom Prone or Nothing to Do? Distinguishing Between State and Trait Leisure Boredom and Its Association with Substance Use in South African Adolescents

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“…The results show that strain and frustrations in different domains of life do not necessarily reinforce socially inappropriate attitudes in the same way Rather, adolescents' aggressive and antiforeigner attitudes seem to be based on different experiences or differential interpretations of similar environmental conditions. According to constructivist models of development (Silbereisen, Eyferth, and Rudinger, 1986;Youniss, 19951, adolescents' attitudes can be conceptualized as a product of "objective" environmental challenges, options, and restrictions on one hand and individual intentions, needs, and competencies in dealing with contextual demands on the other. Moreover, the way in which individuals construct meanings for events is to some extent determined by cognitive scripts or schemata that act as guidelines through which perceptions and judgments are filtered.…”

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Micro- and macrosocial conditions of adolescents' aggressiveness and antiforeigner attitudes

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New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development

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“…Chapter 1, by Marloes Kleinjan and Rutger C. M. E. Engels, provides an overview of health consequences, determinants of adolescent substance use, and a short summary of the effectiveness of prevention attempts, thereby demonstrating that, for instance, risky peer associations and low bonding to normative instances are new directions for youth development • doi: 10.1002.yd important risk factors promoting adolescent substance use, which can be targeted within preventions attempts in school.…”

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“…9 In this person-environment interaction, adolescents take on an active role in order to promote their own development. 10 Furthermore, the development of problem behavior is considered to be influenced by multiple factors (that is, risk and protective factors as targets of interventions). 11 Prevention new directions for youth development • doi: 10.1002.yd science today aims at generating knowledge and measures to work against the development of problem behavior, such as early and high adolescent substance use, by developing programs based on a strong theoretical basis and evaluated based on rigorous research design.…”

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