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Consequences of Summertime for Adolescent Development
Associate Professor Joseph Mahoney has received a 2-year grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to study the associated consequences of summertime for adolescent development. Summertime constitutes about 23% of the calendar year for school-aged youth. It also represents the longest consecutive period of out-of-school time. However, less than 1% of published studies over the past 40 years has been concerned with summer and, as a result, very little is known about how youth spend the summer months or the possible of impact of this time use for adolescents' academic, social, and physical development during school year. Findings from this study should begin to fill the knowledge gap in these areas and specify the risks and opportunities of summertime for adolescent development.
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