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- Title
How urban African American young adolescents spend their time: time budgets for locations, activities, and companionship.
- Authors
Larson, R W; Richards, M H; Sims, B; Dworkin, J
- Abstract
The time budgets of a population of youth provide important information about their daily experience and socialization. This study reports data on the time budgets of a sample of 253 urban African American poor to working- and middle-class 5th-8th graders in Chicago. These youth were found to spend less time in school than other postindustrial adolescent populations, but spent no less time doing homework than White suburban U.S. young adolescents. They spent large quantities of time at home and with their families--at rates comparable to rates for young adolescents in a society with collectivist values like India. Unlike with other populations, early adolescence was not associated with major age changes in time allocations. Amount of time in schoolwork did not differ by grade, and amount of time with family did not show the decline with age that has been found for European American suburban adolescents.
- Publication
American journal of community psychology, 2001, Vol 29, Issue 4, p565
- ISSN
0091-0562
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1023/A:1010422017731