Cyber Bullying Affects One in 10 Students

Bullying still makes life miserable for plenty of students, only these days some aggressors apparently operate electronically. A new study shows that many children in grades 6 through 10 have either bullied classmates or been bullied by them, sometimes online or through cell phones. According to the study, 20.8 percent of respondents reported being perpetrators or victims of physical bullying in the past two months; 53.6 percent were victims of verbal bullying; 51.4 percent were victims of relational bullying, which involves social exclusion, and 13.6 percent of cyber bullying on a computer, cell phone or other electronic device. Full Story : Forbes.com….

New Study: Teens Expect to Die Young

According to a new study published in Pediatrics, 15% of teenagers anticipate an early death for themselves. This survey of 20,000 kids, may not be surprising looking at the rate of drug use, suicides, sexually transmitted diseases and rampant flus today, but it goes against the conventional understanding that young adults engage in risky behavior due to overconfidence and a notion of invulnerability. In the study, 15% of adolescents said they have a 50-50 or less chance of living till the age of 35, even though national statistics state that 96% of this generation will see their 35th birthdays. Full Story : Newsblaze.com….

US teens use smart phones for cheating: study

A study released on Thursday shows US teens are using smart phones and the Internet to cheat at school work or exams. Slightly more than half of teens surveyed for a Common Sense Media poll admitted to using the Internet to cheat and more than a third of students with mobile telephones said they had used them to cheat. Approximately 65 percent of all teens surveyed said they had heard or seen other students using mobile telephones to cheat at school. Full Story : Physorg.com…

Kids who join gangs feel safe despite increased danger

Children who join gangs feel safer despite a greater risk of being assaulted or killed, according to research funded by the US Justice Department. The findings by Michigan State University - criminologist Chris Melde, may help explain why youth continue to join street gangs despite the obvious danger, which he described as a ‘paradox’. Full Story : Nerve.in…..

Teenagers Are Becoming Increasingly Logical

A research project at the University of Gothenburg has been testing large groups of 13-year-olds in Sweden since the early 1960s using the same intelligence test. The tests have taken place at approximately five year intervals and consist of an inductive-logic test, a verbal test and a spatial test. The most recent study, shows that today’s teenagers are achieving demonstrably better results in the logic test than was the case fifty years ago. Teenagers’ spatial capacity, the so-called power of spatial imagination, is higher now than it was in the 1960s. Full Story : ScienceDaily.com….

Depressed US teens,over 2 million.

A survey conducted among youths aged 12 to 17 about mood and depression revealed that more than 2 million US teenagers have suffered a serious bout of depression in the past year. 8.5 percent of adolescents aged 12 to 17 described having had a major depressive episode in the previous year. Nearly half of the teenagers who had major depression said it severely impaired their ability to function in at least one of the areas on the disability scale. Depression, or a depressed mood, refer to a state of melancholia, unhappiness or sadness, or to a relatively minor downturn in mood that may last only a few hours or days.

Consumption Of Alcohol In the Young Ages Lead To Heavy Drinking

Since it is unethical and impossible for the scientists to do the alcohol consumption study with teenagers, Scientists at Duke University Medical Center performed a longterm experiment on rats based on the fact that mammals’ genome similar to that of humans.

They have proved that people who start to drink alcohol in their early ages developed to be a heavy drinkers in their adulthood.

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No TV in Teens’ Bedrooms

A new study found that, teens with a TV in their bedroom ate fruits and vegetables less often, ate fewer meals with their family, and were twice as likely to watch at least five daily hours of TV. Nearly two-thirds of the study participants— 62% — had a TV in their bedroom. American Academy of Pediatrics’ recommends not to give teens a bedroom TV.

Hyperactive girls lands in problems

A joint study by researchers from Université de Montréal and the University College London revealed that young girls who are hyperactive are more likely to get hooked on smoking, under-perform in school or jobs and gravitate towards mentally abusive relationships as adults. The study followed 881 Canadian girls from the ages of six to 21 years. The research was published in the latest issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry.

Songs promote Drugs and Sex?

Rap in the fore front having seventy-seven percent of songs making reference to drugs or sex, on average thirty-three percent of popular songs contain explicit content and forty-two percent of songs hint at substance abuse. Only fourteen percent of Rock songs contain offending lyrics.