Can a Sense of Purpose Help Teens Through Hard Times? [greatergood.berkeley.edu]

Alicia Doktor 1/29/194:00 AM

Now that I’m a parent, I pay more attention to bad news headlines than I used to. I can’t help but be unsettled by looming “financial crisis storm clouds,” rising global debt, trade conflicts, and divisive, short-sighted policy decisions. After all, the events of today determine the future that my preschooler will grow up in.

So how do I prepare him for that future—even if it includes uncertain and tumultuous global economic challenges?

In a recent study, Claremont Graduate University professor Kendall Cotton Bronk and her colleagues explored whether having a sense of purpose could help youths facing the prolonged financial crisis of the Great Recession.

[For more on this story by MARYAM ABDULLAH, go to https://greatergood.berkeley.e...s_through_hard_times]

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