High School Extra-Curricular Activities Linked To Social Competence and Achievement

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High school students who participate in extra-curricular activities achieve more in college and are less likely to engage in risky behaviors, according to a new study from the University of Illinois.

Professor David Hansen and his colleagues studied 1122 eleventh graders about their involvement in the arts, school and community clubs, volunteer work, Scouts, church groups and so forth. They found that the amount of time spent in such activities was more important than which activities the students chose.

In an article in the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, phone number data wrote that teens who have no outside interests are more apt to be socially isolated and disconnected from others both at school and at home.
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Although, in some cases, there's no way to see the explosion coming, parents who have to deal with an excessively angry teen often admit that there were subtle signs of a meltdown. Keeping the lines open and the trust flowing can help any parent redirect what is many times anger born of the normal frustration of the teen years into more productive ways for the teen to vent.