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The Psychological Benefits Of Participation In Leisure Pursuits For Adolescents, Caitlyn Mckay
The Psychological Benefits Of Participation In Leisure Pursuits For Adolescents, Caitlyn Mckay
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This paper looks to better understand the effects leisure has on adolescents. Leisure is an important past time for adolescents since they have so much free time to pursue activities. The adolescents, their parents, recreation programmers, and school officials should be aware of the benefits and risks associated with different leisure pursuits so they can better help the adolescents’ transition into an adult who has a high level of psychologically well-being. After the different effects are analyzed, this paper offers recommendations to recreation programmers. These recommendations account for the different factors of leisure. Overall, this paper is an analysis of …