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Work, Leisure, and Mass Media

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.

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Work, Leisure, and Mass Media

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  1. CH 7 Work, Leisure, and Mass Media

  2. 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

  3. Patterns of Time Use

  4. 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

  5. Differences in Contemporary Society • American adolescents spend more time on leisure, less time in productive activities, than peers in other countries • Example • Average 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

  6. 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

  7. Adolescents and Work: Beneficial or Detrimental?

  8. 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?

  9. Adolescents and Work: 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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?

  16. Video • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzEOZF9MNS0

  17. Media Impact on Sexual Themes • 70% of prime time television contains sexual themes • Objectification of women, sex as a symbol of masculinity, sex as competition • How often are consequences shown?

  18. The average adolescent has more than $400 in spending money per month. In 2008 Teenagers were projected to spend more than $200 billion The Adolescent Consumer

  19. Perceived Effect of Social Networking Source: Common Sense Study, July 2012

  20. 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

  21. 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: How personality influences social media use and motivations. Personality and Individual Differences, 54, 402-407.

  22. 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

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