Can organized leisure-time activities buffer the negative outcomes of unstructured activities for adolescents’ health?

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs00038-018-1125-3.pdf" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs00038-018-1125-3.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00038-018-1125-3" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00038-018-1125-3</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Can organized leisure-time activities buffer the negative outcomes of unstructured activities for adolescents’ health?

Original language description

Objectives We aimed to assess the associations of involvement in selected unstructured activities (UA) with health-risk behaviours and academic achievement and the degree to which the participation in organized leisure-time activities (OLTA) changes these associations. Methods Using a sample of 6935 Czech adolescents aged 13 and 15 years, we investigated adolescents’ weekly involvement in hanging out, visiting shopping malls for fun and meeting friends after 8 p.m., OLTA and engagement in three health-risk behaviours and academic achievement. Results Weekly involvement in the selected UA was associated with higher odds for regular smoking, being drunk, having early sexual intercourse and low academic achievement. Concurrent participation in OLTA did not buffer these negative outcomes, except for sexual experience. However, those highly engaged only in UA were more likely to participate in the health-risk behaviours and report worse academic achievement than those participating in any OLTA concurrently. Conclusions The selected UA are strongly associated with an increased occurrence of adolescents’ health-risk behaviours and low academic achievement. Concurrent participation in OLTA does not buffer these negative outcomes significantly, but adolescents engaged only in UA consistently report the least favourable outcomes.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30304 - Public and environmental health

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA17-12579S" target="_blank" >GA17-12579S: TRENDS IN BEHAVIOUR AMONG CZECH ADOLESCENTS IN THE CONTEXT OF SCHOOL AND FAMILY ENVIRONMENT: HBSC STUDY BETWEEN THE YEARS 2002-2018</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

International Journal of Public Health

ISSN

1661-8556

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

63

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

743-751

UT code for WoS article

000436108100008

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85047932819