It's associated with better mental and physical health
ids and teenagers who volunteer may be helping not only their communities, but also themselves, according toVolunteering through school, a religious organization, or a community group is associated with better overall health and wellness among children and adolescents, the researchers found.
Kids ages 12 and older who volunteered were also roughly 25% less likely to have anxiety than peers who didn’t, although that finding didn’t carry over to children younger than 12. However,among older kids: about 19% of kids 12 and older experienced anxiety, versus 11% of those younger than 12. Those findings come from survey data provided by the parents of more than 50,000 U.S. kids ages 6 to 17, about half of whom reported that their child did some kind of volunteer work. Parents answered questions about their kids’ demographic characteristics, health, and community-service activity. That approach may have skewed the data somewhat, as a parent may not know if their child experiences anxiety or considers themselves to be flourishing.
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