The current article provides an overview of studies examining the developmental
significance of extracurricular activities in middle childhood. We describe the main …

Organized activities have been championed as an important youth setting to nurture
character development through childhood and adolescence, but scholars have yet to …

How children spend time outside of school has consequences for their learning and
development. Research on extracurricular participation has focused primarily on school …

Abstract In Hong Kong's competitive society, most children take part in extracurricular
activities (ECAs) before or after school. Early childhood lays the foundation for development …

This study examined links between parents' exercise habits and adolescents' participation in
sports activities, considering the aspects of gender and age. It was hypothesized that regular …

In this study, we used a mixed-methods research design to investigate the extra curricular
participation of kindergarten-aged Hong Kong children, based on reports provided by 1260 …

In this article, we report on parental perceptions of socio-emotional skills and personality of
children who were involved in community-based music and sports extracurricular (EC) …

Introduction Music is central in the lives of adolescents. While listening is usually the most
common form of engagement, many adolescents also learn music formally by participating …

This paper introduces a model that explains psychosocial development by embedding the
developmental concept of rough-and-tumble play (RTP) into the contextual settings of …

In this paper, the focus is on examining children's extra-curricular activities in a high density
urban East Asian environment, specifically Hong Kong. The paper offers a framework to …