The study, Leisure contexts in adolescence and their effects on adult outcomes, was carried out by the Institute of Education and launched alongside the Green Paper for Youth last month. It analyses the impact of youth activities on a group of 6,000 people born in the 1970s and the effects their activities at age 16 have had in later life.
Professor John Bynner, one of the authors, said that the findings were 'broadly' representative of today's society.
He said, 'Youth clubs, partly, but not entirely, because of the kind of young people they attract, are associated with negative outcomes.'
But he said that former children's minister Margaret Hodge had put her own slant on the preliminary findings released in January 2005 when she said that young people would be 'better off at home watching television' than at a youth club that just offers a 'place to go'.
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