Teenage Careers and Leisure Lives: An Analysis of Lifestyles

1 January 1992

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Loisir et Société / Society and Leisure

Vol. 15 (2) , 499-520
https://doi.org/10.1080/07053436.1992.10715429

Abstract

The 16–19 Initiative is a U.K. study of young people in four labour markets followed up for two years. From the data collected, five major post-16 career patterns can be distinguished: staying on at school en route to higher education; staying on to take vocational courses; leaving to get a job; leaving to go on a youth training scheme and then getting a job; experience after leaving of training schemes and unemployment but no continuing full-time employment. The paper examines the characteristic leisure behaviour of young people in each of these five career patterns and the distinctive attitudes and self-concepts associated with them.

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