psychology life facts.

Teenager.

1) 7 in 10 girls believe that they are not good enough or don't measure up in some way, including their looks, performance in school and relationships with friends and family members.

2) 75% of Teenagers with low self-esteem reported engaging in negative activities like cutting, bullying, smoking, drinking, or disordered eating. This compares to 25% of girls with high self-esteem according to survey.

3) A study showed that the percent of teen girls who feel good about themselves is around 29% compared to the boys with a percent of 46%.

4) A teenage girl's self-esteem is more strongly related to how she views her own body shape and body weight, than how much she actually appear and looks.

5) About 20% of teens are likely to experience depression before they join college.

6) Among high school students, approximately 44% girls and 14% boys are attempting to lose weight according to survey.

7) As teens become better at thinking abstractly, their social anxiety increases, according to Research. Abstract reasoning makes it possible to consider yourself from the eyes of another. Teens may use this new skill to ruminate about what others are thinking of them. In which may be why teens are more likely to take risks when other teens are around.

8) It is a myth that teens need less sleep than young children. They need 9 to 10 hours a night, scientists say, although most fall short. Sleep-deprivation only exacerbates moodiness and cloudy decision-making. And sleep is thought to aid the critical reorganization of the teen brain.

9) Loosely defined as the years between 11 and 19, adolescence is considered a critical time of development – and not just in outward appearances. "The brain continues to change throughout life, but there are huge leaps in development during adolescence"

10) Most teens may not get enough sleep. Adults usually get sleep earlier than teens. This happens because a sleep hormone called melatonin is secreted at around 10 pm due to the body's biological clock. This hormone is naturally secreted a little later in teens, making them sleepy much later in the night.

11) Our memories can be so easily manipulated that in just 3 hours you can be convinced you committed a crime in your teenage years, a research found.

12) Over 70 percent of Teenagers age 15 to 17 avoid normal daily activities, such as attending school, when they feel bad about their looks.

13) Part of the teenagers limbic system, the amygdala is thought to connect sensory information to emotional responses. Its development, along with hormonal changes, may give rise to newly intense experiences of rage, fear, aggression, excitement & sexual attraction.

14) Puberty is the beginning of major changes in the limbic system in teenage life, Psychologist said referring to the part of the brain that not only helps regulate heart rate and blood sugar levels, but also is critical to the formation of memories and emotions.

15) Shyness is the curse of every teenager wishing to have anything like a normal social life. That unfounded anxiety when talking to people, the debilitating reluctance to speak up

16) Teenage brains are simply wired to seek reward, a study in 2014 showed. When teens got money, or anticipated receiving some, the part of their brain that deals with pleasure and reward, the ventral striatum, lit up more than in adults in the study.

17) Teenager who do not positive peer relations with family or friends are at a higher risk of developing substance abuse and depression.

18) Teenagers are not that good at reading emotions as adults or even children.

19) Teenagers are ore likely to take more risks than any other age group.

20) Teenagers even who have to get up early in the morning stay awake till late nights and often face a lack of sleep or the willingness to sleep.

21) Teenagers find it easy to trust people: And the downside of this is that they eventually get hurt and not be able to build trust as easily as before. But i think its a necessary evil to be let down once, and not make the same mistakes again.

22) Teenagers find it hard to read emotions due to the underdeveloped pre frontal cortex of the brain, teens find it harder to read emotions, and have to rely on their limbic system - which is obviously less efficient.

23) Teenagers have less self-control. They are extremely impulsive.

24) Teenagers will always try to be more of an adult than a child: Sure, they are in the middle of that phase where its neither here nor there, but they try their level best to show that they are mature enough to handle everything and anything.

25) Teens are dealing with a huge amount of social, emotional and cognitive flux and have underdeveloped abilities to cope. They need their parents — those people with the more stable adult brain — to help them by staying calm, listening and being good role models.

26) Teens can become easily obsessed with any things, person, celebrities, TV series than any other age group because of their teen brains puberty development.

27) Teens do dramatic, irrational and stupid things because of teen brains. After infancy brain's most dramatic growth spurt occurs in adolescence, and that growth means things get a little muddled in a teen mind. Teen brains are also wired to seek reward, act out, and otherwise exhibit immaturity that will change when they become adults.

28) Teens mind can easily distracted or they are easy to be pleased. That's why at this age they can be mentally easily cheated and they have a fear of commitments more than any age.

29) Teens mind doesn't build to do hardwork, they want success easily and rapidly for that they can do anything.

30) The Teen brains shut down when their parents. According to research while listening to their parents nitpicking, certain key areas of teen brains shut down by hearing criticism, and throws a wrench in their ability to process what you're telling them to avoid situation.

31) The average high school kid today has the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the early

32) The top wish among all teen girls & boys are for their parents to communicate better with them. This includes frequent and more open conversations.

33) This period also increases social anxiety in the teens.