In an online survey of 1,300 teen drivers with cellphones, scheduled for release Monday, the youths said that even though their parents may warn them against it, they think adult drivers send text messages “all the time.” A sizable proportion of the teens in the study also admitted to engaging in the same dangerous practice. […]
Continue readingPeer’s Parents Influence Teen Alcohol Use
Researchers surveyed about 9,000 ninth-graders from rural school districts about their closest friends, their parents’ discipline and if their parents knew who their friends were. If the parents of your teen’s friends are unaware of their child’s drug or alcohol use, or worse, condone it, that may make your child more likely to partake as […]
Continue readingEvidence Links Early Cannabis Use to Psychosis
Early adolescent cannabis use may contribute to the development of symptoms of schizotypal personality disorder (SPD) in adulthood, according to new data from a longitudinal cohort study. Read full article here Link to research abstract & full text (payment required)
Continue readingCollege Students Not So Good at Google
Students in a two-year ethnographic study referred to Google more than any database when discussing their research habits. But ironically, say the study’s authors, they weren’t very good at using it. The series of studies, known as the “Ethnographic Research in Illinois Academic Libraries Project (ERIAL)” is a collaborative effort by five Illinois universities that […]
Continue readingMulti-Screen Media Usage Findings
According to Nielsen’s global survey of multi-screen media usage, watching video content on computers has become just as common as watching video content on television among online consumers. More than 80 percent of Internet respondents in 56 countries reported watching video content at home on a computer (84%) or on TV (83%) at least once a month. […]
Continue readingYoung male drivers are more vulnerable to sleepiness
One might imagine the vigour of youth would allow young men to shrug off the effects of a lack of sleep. In fact, a new study on driving performance documents that young men are particularly vulnerable to the effects of sleepiness, far more than older men. Read full article here
Continue readingEffects on Young Women of Sexualised Images
A new study of 258 US school girls and 171 female undergrads by Elizabeth Daniels has investigated how women and girls feel when they see sexualised images of female athletes. The key finding is that the girls and undergrads who viewed the sexualised athlete images tended to say they admired or were jealous of the athletes’ bodies, they […]
Continue readingThe Teenage Frenemy
Teenage friendships are never boring. There is rarely dull moment. It seems drama, or melodrama, is never far away. Amongst all the ups and downs have you noticed that your teenager seems to mention one or two people more than most when discussing the latest relational disturbance? Is there always one name that seems to […]
Continue readingAustralian Research Review of Teenage Texting Habits
This is an interesting read… Text messaging is short, simple, lacks contextual clues and can be quickly done at any time of the day or night and sent from a vast range of geographical locations. A recent literature review of research into the use of texting by students published by the Journal of the Research […]
Continue readingTV Haibts Linked to Unhealthy Diet in Teens
Researchers from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development found that the more TV a pre-teen or teenager watches, the more likely he or she is to skip daily breakfast, eat fast food, candy and sugar-sweetened beverages, and avoid fruits and vegetables. This was even after adjusting for factors like […]
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