{"id":625,"date":"2021-01-14T16:01:33","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T21:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/lifespandevelopment\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=625"},"modified":"2021-03-25T11:50:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T15:50:47","slug":"6-8-teenagers-and-working","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/lifespandevelopment\/chapter\/6-8-teenagers-and-working\/","title":{"raw":"6.8: Teenagers and Working","rendered":"6.8: Teenagers and Working"},"content":{"raw":"Many adolescents work either summer jobs, or during the school year. Holding a job may offer teenagers extra funds, the opportunity to learn new skills, ideas about future careers, and perhaps the true value of money. However, there are numerous concerns about teenagers working, especially during the school year. A long-standing concern is that that it \u201cengenders precocious maturity of more adult-like roles and problem behaviors\u201d (Staff, VanEseltine, Woolnough, Silver, &amp; Burrington, 2011, p. 150). Several studies have found that working more than 20 hours per week can lead to declines in grades, a general disengagement from school (Staff, Schulenberg, &amp; Bachman, 2010; Lee &amp; Staff, 2007; Marsh &amp; Kleitman, 2005), an increase in substance abuse (Longest &amp; Shanahan, 2007), engaging in earlier sexual behavior, and pregnancy (Staff et al., 2011).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<figure><img class=\"internal alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/socialsci.libretexts.org\/@api\/deki\/files\/3185\/Employees_work_inside_the_Starbucks_at_the_Taj_Mahal_Palace_hotel_in_south_Mumbai%252C_India.jpg?revision=1&amp;size=bestfit&amp;width=391&amp;height=260\" alt=\"Employees work inside the Starbucks at the Taj Mahal Palace hotel in south Mumbai India\" width=\"394\" height=\"263\" \/><figcaption><i>Figure 6.14: <\/i>Young woman working in a coffee shop.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\nHowever, like many employee groups teens have seen a drop in the number of jobs. The summer jobs of previous generations have been on a steady decline, according to the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics (2016). See Figure 6.15 for recent trends.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<figure><img class=\"internal alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/socialsci.libretexts.org\/@api\/deki\/files\/3186\/Screen_Shot_2019-01-16_at_5.46.03_PM.png?revision=1\" alt=\"Graph showing that teen employment between age 16-19 has fallen in recent decades from 1974 to 2014.\" width=\"570\" height=\"296\" \/><figcaption><i>Figure 6.15: <\/i>Teen employment has fallen in recent decades.<\/figcaption><\/figure>","rendered":"<p>Many adolescents work either summer jobs, or during the school year. Holding a job may offer teenagers extra funds, the opportunity to learn new skills, ideas about future careers, and perhaps the true value of money. However, there are numerous concerns about teenagers working, especially during the school year. A long-standing concern is that that it \u201cengenders precocious maturity of more adult-like roles and problem behaviors\u201d (Staff, VanEseltine, Woolnough, Silver, &amp; Burrington, 2011, p. 150). Several studies have found that working more than 20 hours per week can lead to declines in grades, a general disengagement from school (Staff, Schulenberg, &amp; Bachman, 2010; Lee &amp; Staff, 2007; Marsh &amp; Kleitman, 2005), an increase in substance abuse (Longest &amp; Shanahan, 2007), engaging in earlier sexual behavior, and pregnancy (Staff et al., 2011).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"internal alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/socialsci.libretexts.org\/@api\/deki\/files\/3185\/Employees_work_inside_the_Starbucks_at_the_Taj_Mahal_Palace_hotel_in_south_Mumbai%252C_India.jpg?revision=1&amp;size=bestfit&amp;width=391&amp;height=260\" alt=\"Employees work inside the Starbucks at the Taj Mahal Palace hotel in south Mumbai India\" width=\"394\" height=\"263\" \/><figcaption><i>Figure 6.14: <\/i>Young woman working in a coffee shop.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>However, like many employee groups teens have seen a drop in the number of jobs. The summer jobs of previous generations have been on a steady decline, according to the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics (2016). See Figure 6.15 for recent trends.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"internal alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/socialsci.libretexts.org\/@api\/deki\/files\/3186\/Screen_Shot_2019-01-16_at_5.46.03_PM.png?revision=1\" alt=\"Graph showing that teen employment between age 16-19 has fallen in recent decades from 1974 to 2014.\" width=\"570\" height=\"296\" \/><figcaption><i>Figure 6.15: <\/i>Teen employment has fallen in recent decades.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"menu_order":8,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-625","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":602,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/lifespandevelopment\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/lifespandevelopment\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/lifespandevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/lifespandevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/lifespandevelopment\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2531,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/lifespandevelopment\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/625\/revisions\/2531"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/lifespandevelopment\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/602"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/lifespandevelopment\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/625\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/lifespandevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/lifespandevelopment\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/lifespandevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/lifespandevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}