Developmental Benefits of Extracurricular Involvement: Do Peer Characteristics Mediate the Link Between Activities and Youth Outcomes?

In this article, we test: (a) the relation between school-based extracurricular participation and indicators of positive and negative development across a range of activity contexts, and (b) a mediation model linking activity participation, prosocial peers, and development. Extensive survey information was collected from a predominately White sample of middle class adolescents in 9th, 10th, and 12th grades. Extracurricular participation was related to more favorable academic, psychological, and behavioral adjustment; the pattern of findings differed by activity and outcome. In addition, we documented some support for the hypothesis that the link between extracurricular participation and positive adjustment is partly a function of associating with a prosocial peer group. Implications of these findings and suggestions for future research are presented. Assistant Professor of Human Development, Connecticut College. Received her PhD in 1999 from the University of Michigan. Major research interests include motivation, school engagement, extracurricular participation, and adolescent development. MacKeachie Collegiate Psychology Professor, University of Michigan. Received PhD in 1974 from the UCLA. Recent work focuses on ethnicity and the transitions from middle childhood to adolescence and into adulthood.     

当代青年“入伍热”现象的成因分析

从近几年的冬季征兵、夏季特招士官和军校高招来看,当代青年再现应征参军热潮。这其中无论是普通社会青年,还是莘莘学子,促成其崇尚参军报国的深层背景中,有个人长期的军旅夙愿和传统的爱国情怀,也有国庆阅兵等时事宣传,以及＂大学生好兵高明＂的示范效应,更有国家新出台的对大学生入伍优惠政策等外部因素,是全社会共同营造的良性氛围点燃了这种热切与激情。     

资源型地区农村青年就业状况分析——基于河北省Z县S村的调查

良好的资源环境和较多的就业机会,使资源型地区的多数农村青年选择留乡就业。但由于农村青年自身的某种局限,以及有色资源的不可再生,资源型地区的农村劳动力就业需要寻求新的机遇和新的增长点。在以工促农、以城带乡的发展阶段,进一步调整农村经济结构,大力发展农村服务业,可以为资源型地区农村青年就近转移就业提供一些前瞻性思路。     

刑事诉讼的程序性制裁

在我国刑事诉讼实务中 ,刑讯逼供、超期羁押、侵犯被追诉方辩护权等违反程序的现象屡禁不止 ,一个重要原因在于我国缺乏严密的程序性制裁机制。制裁是法律的内在构成要素 ,是保障法律实施的必要机制 ,对于实现法的公平与正义具有极其重要的意义。程序性制裁无论是在适用范围、实施机制 ,还是在基本功能方面都是刑事制裁、民事制裁、纪律制裁和国家赔偿所无法替代的。程序性制裁有终止诉讼、撤销原判、排除非法证据、诉讼行为绝对无效、诉讼行为相对无效、从轻量刑等主要方式。完善我国程序性制裁机制需要进行全面的制度改革与程序建构     

全球化背景下的青年与青年工作

全球化作为一种不可逆转的潮流,正在影响和改变着各国青年,在全球化背景下,世界青年出现了某些明显的趋同趋势,时代的变化和形势的发展要求我们的青年工作要与时俱进,确立与全球化相适应的青年工作对策。     

Lay-Perspectives on Criminal Deviance,Goals of Punishment,and Punitivity

Empirical studies corroborate a relatively close relation between goals of sentencing and punitiveness. However, it is not clear what aspects of sentencing goals motivate harsh punishment. This study analyzes the structure of sentencing goals and scrutinizes in particular whether the idea of retribution is associated with punitiveness, or whether punishment considerations from a societal perspective (macrolevel) are the source of more punitive responses. A questionnaire was mailed to a random sample drawn in Bern, Switzerland. A total of 357 persons responded to items measuring constructs including goals of sentencing, punitiveness, target of justice considerations, and perceived threat to society, after reading one of three short stories about specific crimes (fraud, physical injury, assault). Results of this study reveal a two-dimensional structure of sentencing goals. One dimension represents readiness to punish and exclude the offender socially. The other dimension refers to concerns of the victim versus the needs of the society as a whole. The analysis provides a new interpretation of sentencing goals.     

浅析社区青少年的社会交往网络与社会支持网络——对上海市普陀区社区青少年的调查研究

根据2006年对上海市普陀区“社区青少年”发展状况调查的实验研究管理,对易于“边缘化”的“社区青少年”的社会交往网络与社会支持网络的构成、特征进行分析,并探讨如何促进它们之间的优势互补,从而为“社区青少年”的发展提供更好的条件。     

论青少年体育教学中的人格教育

体育锻炼和体育运动对青少年的思想品德、智力发育、审美素养的形成都有不可替代的重要作用,将改变和塑造着青少年的人格精神。体育教学中通过体育精神对青少年人格教育的过程,也是将人的知、情、意、行统一协调发展的过程,是健全、完善人的心理品质的过程。     

试论青年中医教师的系统培训

振兴和发展中医药事业关键在教育,而教育质量的提高靠教师。文中对青年中医教师的系统培训提出要注重师德情操、基础理论、实践技能、写作能力等的培养。     

Serious Youth Gun Offenders and the Epidemic of Youth Violence in Boston

Boston, like many other major cities, experienced a sudden increase in youth homicides during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Research evidence suggests that the recent epidemic of urban youth violence was intensely concentrated among criminally active young black males residing in disadvantaged urban neighborhoods rather than all young black males residing in disadvantaged black neighborhoods. Other researchers, however, suggest that there was a diffusion of guns and gun violence from youth involved in street crack markets to youth outside the drug trade who armed themselves primarily for self-protection against the armed criminally active youth. In this paper, criminal history data are analyzed to determine whether the criminal profile of Boston arrested youth gun offenders changed over time and micro-level data on youth gun assault incidents in Boston are examined to unravel whether there were noteworthy changes in the nature of these violent events over time. The results of these analyses suggest that the youth violence epidemic in Boston was highly concentrated among serious youth gun offenders rather than a diffusion of guns away from the street drug trade, gangs, and criminally active youth.