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Chapter 7: Work, Leisure and Mass Media

Chapter 7: Work, Leisure and Mass Media. Bethany Cuenod and Valerie Felan. A Change in Workload. Compulsory secondary education required by the year 1915

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Chapter 7: Work, Leisure and Mass Media

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  1. Chapter 7:Work, Leisure and Mass Media Bethany Cuenod and Valerie Felan

  2. A Change in Workload • Compulsory secondary education required by the year 1915 • In conjunction with child labor laws, this requirement produced free time for students that was left to be filled with either work, if of age, and leisure.

  3. 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?

  4. Cultural differences • Prevalence of menial labor needed • Different student hours • Social stigma • Higher amount of outside work • School to work transitions • Apprenticeships

  5. 3 main effects • Responsibility • Working for spending money vs providing for the family • Interference with other activities • School work • Development of negative behaviors • Riskier behaviors associated with employment • ~*20 hours is the golden rule*~

  6. Experience Sampling Method (ESM) • Teenagers are paged and asked questions of • Who? What? And How? • Findings: • More positive when with friends • Least positive when alone • Family time showed a curvilinear pattern

  7. Structured vs Unstructured • Structured: • Most popular: athletics • 5 hrs/week • Prevalent in middle class families • Higher self-esteem • Better mental health • Unstructured • Routine Activity Theory • Time after school • Self-care associated with sex, drugs, and alcohol • Spending time with friends unsupervised = more problem behavior

  8. Positive Youth Development • Richard Lerner • 5 aspects • Competence • Confidence • Connection • Character • Caring compassion

  9. Fiji Island Study Before TV Introduced After TV introduced 3 years later 11% of adolescent girls used self-induced vomiting Girls who showed signs of disordered eating doubled ¾ girls reported feeling “too big or fat” 70% dieted to lose weight • Endorsed culture norm • Large appetite and large body

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

  11. Media Use Stats • Ages 8-18 • Use of All Media • Asians 13:13 • Hispanics 13:00 • African American 12:59 • Whites 8:36 • OVERALL 12:35

  12. Television Stats • TV Time • Blacks 3:23 • Hispanics 3:08 • Asians 2:28 • Whites 2:14 • OVERALL 2:49 • TV in Bedroom • Blacks 84% • Hispanics 77% • Whites 64% • Asians 64% • OVERALL 72%

  13. Self presentation on facebook • Study done by Chen and Marcus • Allocentristsvsidiocentrists • Idiocentrists sharing information related to themselves was usually partially false. • Extraverts and allocentrists shared more in person • Introverts or those who are not highly interdependent will share mostly positive information and share the least. When they do, it is mostly related to the audience (allocentrists) Chen, B., Marcus, J., (2012). Students’ self-presentation on Facebook: An examination of personality and self-construal factors. Computers in Human Behavior, 28, 2091-2099.

  14. 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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