Arbeitspapier

Learning Hope and Optimism: Classmate Experiences and Adolescent Development

This paper explores individual and contextual factors related to the development of hopeful attitudes during adolescence using a nationally representative study. A key focus is on the experiences of maltreatment by adults, both for the adolescent and his/her classmates. While all types of individual experiences with maltreatment reduce adolescent hopefulness, maltreatment domains most likely to be visible (i.e physical abuse) by classmates also reduce adolescent hopefulness. This relationship is robust to the inclusion of more general environmental factors through school-level fixed effects, suggesting both a causal explanation and a typically unmeasured spillover effect of violence against children. Other types of maltreatment, such as neglect and material hardship, do not show spillover effects.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 11546

Classification
Wirtschaft
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Subject
hope
optimism
maltreatment
peer effects
spillovers

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Fletcher, Jason M.
Kim, Jinho
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(where)
Bonn
(when)
2018

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  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Fletcher, Jason M.
  • Kim, Jinho
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Time of origin

  • 2018

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