Work and its Positive and Negative Effects on Youth's Psychosocial Development

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• Personal Author:
  Mortimer, Jeylan
• Description:
  The combination of schooling and employment is a near-universal teenage experience. Because adolescence is a highly formative and potentially vulnerable period of life, it is important to consider how employment influences adolescent development. Much research shows that teenage employment is associated with problem behaviors, such as drinking, smoking, and various forms of deviance, though whether such behaviors are attributable to employment, or part of a syndrome of "precocious adulthood" that attracts youth to work, remains controversial. Employment is also thought to place adolescents at risk because it threatens educational achievement, limits participation in the academic and extracurricular life of the school, and confronts them with stressors for which they are not yet ready. On the other hand, a job may signify progress in moving toward adulthood for the young person and enhance vocational identity. By providing opportunities for vocational exploration and by teaching generic work and coping skills, employment can promote adaptation to the future adult work role. The temporal investment as well as the quality of work must be considered in assessing its positive or negative impacts on development and socioeconomic attainment. Investigators need to further address the processes through which adolescents enter into various work contexts, and the processes through which employment exerts developmental influence.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Adolescent Occupational Health Preceptorship Safety Young Adult
• Keywords:
  Adolescents Behavior Job Stress Psychological Effects Psychosocial Factors Teenagers Young Workers
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  Minnesota ; North Carolina ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  17 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20058890
• Citation:
  Health and safety of young workers: proceedings of a U.S. and Canadian series of symposia. Runyan CW, Lewko J, Rauscher K, Castillo D, Brandspigel S, eds. Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2013-144, 2013 May; :66-79
• Editor(s):
  Runyan CW ; Lewko J ; Rauscher K ; Castillo D ; Brandspigel S
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2013
• Performing Organization:
  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20060831
• End Date:
  20110228
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:05ffee72f7f7b315bf965a40462c4079c099789f9d2b43cd67d3ffeb0cd1ad38899d6a51272c37d8de93eb54a72392830e6145a0e44e31f9ecfc36b21da5dc03
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/181858/cdc_181858_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 617.05 KB ]