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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

club participation, behavioral outcomes, delinquent behaviors

College

Family, Home, and Social Sciences

Department

Sociology

Abstract

This study was designed as a program assessment for school-aged youth attending Boys and Girls Clubs in the greater Salt Lake City area. The study focused on the relationship between length of membership at the club on behavioral outcomes particularly with the goal of a reduction of delinquent behaviors. The original study was designed to be a longitudinal study of club participants whereby the participant’s responses were recorded using their club ID. These IDs would be used to track how individual respondent’s attitudes and behaviors changed over the course of two years as a result of their club participation. Due to problems in the data collection process, however, an insufficient number of respondents were represented in both waves of the data to complete the desired analysis. Some of the possible reasons for the lack of overlapping responses may include inaccurate record keeping on part of the club, errors on the part of club participants in recording their ID numbers, or may be the result of lower frequency of attendance by club members by which respondents from previous waves were absent during the data collection process during this wave. Higher mobility among at risk families may also play a role in the data problems as many club attendees report both high levels of weekly attendance and long duration of attendance in years but do not have data during both data points because they may have attended two different clubs and have been issued different ID numbers because of the move. As a result of these data issues the two waves of data were combined into a single larger sample with duplicate cases removed.

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