There is a growing trend among developed countries to increase the participation of youth in societal and institutional decision-making. The challenge is to move away from an illusion of participation (tokenism) to genuine youth influence. This article transfers knowledge of a relatively new theory to the fields of youth engagement and community development. We pose deliberative democracy as a ...

Youth violence is a costly social problem. This study compared the risk and needs of nonviolent youth offenders, with those who had committed violent offenses only (violent only) and those who had committed violent and nonviolent offenses (violent plus) to determine whether violent youth were a different "type" from nonviolent youth. The case files of 3,744 youth offenders (3,327 males and 417 ...

OBJECTIVE Little is known about accessibility to health care transition (HCT) services for youth with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This study expands our understanding by examining the receipt of HCT services in youth with ASD compared with youth with other special health care needs (OSHCN). METHODS We used the 2005-2006 National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs to examine...

the youth trend factors addiction to drugs was the purpose of this research. in the other words, it is attempted to answer to essential question what factors are caused to the addiction in the youth? to reach to answer the above question, it is used mainly from four theoretical perspectives namely anomaly theory, isolationism theory, labeling theory and sutherland learning theory. the independe...

BACKGROUND The Internet and other eHealth technologies offer a platform for improving the dissemination and accessibility of psychoeducational programs for youth with chronic illness. However, little is known about the recruitment process and yield of diverse samples in Internet research with youth who have a chronic illness. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to compare the demographic ...

â â â â â korea’s youth unemployment problem has continued to worsen since 2004. according to an e24, j64, an analysis of raw data from statistics korea’s economically active population survey and supplementary results of the economically active population survey on youths to confirm whether youth unemployment affects all youths, more youths were delaying graduation or taking leaves of abse...

PURPOSE A Youth Compendium of Physical Activities (Youth Compendium) was developed to estimate the energy costs of physical activities using data on youth only. METHODS On the basis of a literature search and pooled data of energy expenditure measurements in youth, the energy costs of 196 activities were compiled in 16 activity categories to form a Youth Compendium of Physical Activities. To ...

Prior research suggests that youths' engagement in out-of-school time programs may be a crucial factor linking program participation to positive outcomes during adolescence. Guided by the theoretical concept of flow and by stage-environment fit theory, the present study explored correlates of engagement in youth programs. Engagement was conceptualized as the extent to which youth found the prog...

OBJECTIVE To compare the perceptions of youth in grades 5 to 9 and parents regarding their household environment relevant to smoking socialization. METHODS We conducted secondary analysis of the 2004/05 Canadian Youth Smoking Survey and corresponding parent survey, and used the McNemar Test to compare youth and parent responses. RESULTS Results showed statistically significant patterns of d...