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标题：The After School Activity Initiative: Youth Helping Youth in a Community in Crisis
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作者：Brenda Robertson
期刊名称：Journal of Youth Development
电子版ISSN：2325-4017
出版年度：2008
卷号：2
期号：3
页码：61-73
DOI：10.5195/JYD.2008.333
出版社：University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
摘要：Youth experience considerable free time, the use of which can foster active healthy lifestyles or facilitate engagement in activities that are detrimental to self and or to society. In order for the former to occur, specific knowledge, attitudes, and skills must be acquired. This research explores an initiative in which older youth served as leaders in an after school initiative in an economically challenged community where little attention was being paid to the provision of free time opportunities for youth. Not only were positive developmental outcomes experienced by the participants (the ability to find ways to spend free time; an appreciation for the outcomes that can accrue from engagement in positive activities; and the ability to communicate effectively), but the same was true for the older youth who served as leaders (understanding the meaning of success, appreciating the power of interpersonal relationships, and becoming a role model).