What Are Parenting Adolescents and Teens? Know What Expert Wants To Say
Don't automatically categories all of your teens' behaviors into stereotyped narratives about hormonal, rebellious adolescents.
May 17, 2024, 20:31 PM IST
DNA: If not fit...then how will India be hit...how the people of the village got trapped in the web of diseases
DNA: If not fit...then how will India be hit...how the people of the village got trapped in the web of diseases
Jul 12, 2023, 23:58 PM IST
Research: Screen time is not a problem for teens but disconnection
Although only slightly so, teens with inadequate internet access at home and those whose parents exercised the most control over their media use had significantly lower self-esteem than average girls or students who performed poorly in school.
Nov 04, 2022, 20:54 PM IST
Instagram is not toxic for teens, says Facebook
Facebook dismissed the Wall Street Journal assessment of internal research as not accurate and denied the claims that Instagram was toxic for teenage girls.
Sep 28, 2021, 11:14 AM IST
Study shows that hair strand could help combat depression
Researchers looked for potential relationships between the concentration of the stress hormone cortisol in the hair and adolescents` depression symptoms and found a surprising connection.
Jul 25, 2019, 16:14 PM IST
Jaipur teens tampering with Aadhar details for 'Kabir Singh'
Another student Yuvraaj (name changed) said: "We booked bulk tickets through BookMyShow and surprisingly no one asked about our age or identity proof."
Jul 03, 2019, 17:47 PM IST
Excessive smartphone use may cause sleep deprivation in teens
Most sleep experts agree that adolescents need nine hours of sleep each night to be engaged and productive students; less than seven hours is considered to be insufficient sleep.
Oct 21, 2017, 17:48 PM IST
Cannabis use among teens related to attraction to other drugs: Study
A research finds that regular and occasional cannabis use as a teen is linked to a heightened risk of other illicit drug taking in early adulthood. And this pattern is also associated with harmful drinking and smoking
Jun 08, 2017, 16:37 PM IST
Brain scans play pivotal role in identifying teens at drug abuse risk
Psychologists are aware that kids who score high on tests of novelty seeking are on average a bit more likely to abuse drugs.
Feb 26, 2017, 14:17 PM IST
Research shows teens losing sleep over social media
Researchers at Wales Institute for Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD) in the UK also found that girls are much more likely to access their social media accounts during the night than boys.
Jan 18, 2017, 00:24 AM IST
Being socially connected may up suicide risk in teens
The homogeneous culture and high degree of social connectedness of a community can contribute to teenage suicide as well as thwart prevention efforts, says a study contradicting popular notions about being socially connected.
Sep 10, 2016, 15:46 PM IST
Teens less likely to purchase beverages with health warning labels
Soft drinks and other sugary drinks that include health warning labels are less likely to be purchased by teenagers, a study has found.
Sep 09, 2016, 00:54 AM IST
Teenagers who feel safe at school get higher grades
Feeling unsafe at school may hamper a student's learning potential and also contribute to more emotional problems, warns new research.
Aug 25, 2016, 19:55 PM IST
Teens heaviest users of cellular data to watch videos: Study
Over a period of four years (2011-15) there has been a 50 per cent drop in the time teens spend watching videos on a TV screen, and in contrast an 85 per cent increase in those viewing videos on smartphones.
Jun 01, 2016, 13:59 PM IST
Meditation may help teens eat healthy, exercise more
The findings showed that mindfulness-based eating awareness training encouraged teens to eat healthier and exercise more and marginalised their tendency to gain weight.
Apr 05, 2016, 13:44 PM IST
Teens giving cigarettes, alcohol the go-by for fruits, veggies
The change in attitude can be traced back to stricter attitudes towards drinking and smoking among parents, public health drives and a clampdown on under-age sales by newsagents and off-licences.
Dec 27, 2015, 14:02 PM IST
Why chronically lonely teens stay lonely
The researchers charted individual trajectories of loneliness based on four annual questionnaires of 730 adolescents in Belgium.
Dec 19, 2015, 13:24 PM IST
ADHD Meds: A prescription for bullying
Teens and kids, who take drugs like Adderall and Ritalin to treat Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), are twice as likely to be bullied as their peers without ADHD, according to a recent research.
Nov 21, 2015, 12:28 PM IST
Exercise curbs suicide attempts by bullied teens
Regular exercise results in as much as 23 percent reduction in suicidal thoughts and attempts in bullied students, new research has found.
Sep 22, 2015, 13:18 PM IST
Popular antidepressant neither safe nor effective for teens
Depressed teens shouldn't take the widely used antidepressant paroxetine as it is neither safe nor effective, as per a reanalysis of an influential study originally published in 2001.
Sep 20, 2015, 17:34 PM IST
