Publisher's Synopsis
This sourcebook delves into the way the clock and the calendarstructure the lives of adolescents, their families, and their peergroups. The authors use a variety of research methods, includingtime sampling and ethnography, to examine distinct patterns ofadolescent behavior and emotions across the school day, on weekdaysand weekends, and during the school year versus during the summer.
Their research shows some of the forces that give rise to thetemporal rhythms in adolescents' lives, including physiological,family, and community processes. Their findings also uncover therole of temporal patterns in shaping parent-child relations, peerinteractions, and problem behavior in adolescence.
Finally, the volume emphasizes that community planners, schools,youth leaders, and others charged with organizing the contexts inwhich adolescents develop need to understand these rhythms toeffectively meet the needs of adolescents.
This is the 82nd issue of the quarterly journal NewDirections for Child and Adolescent Development.
