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Last updated: August 2022 Date created: June 2008
American Psychological Association. (2022). Teens. https://www.apa.org/topics/teens/
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Every two years Dolly, Australia’s most popular magazine for teenage girls, takes a look at the constants in the lives of teenagers – such as school, sex, relationships, alcohol, family and body image – and tracks their thoughts, behaviours and the trends that shape them. Using a mixture of surveys and focus groups the Dolly Youth Monitor has been tracking teenage trends for over two decades.
As director of Parenting Ideas, I’ve been fortunate enough to be involved in the interpretation and presentation of the data to various groups for two Dolly Youth Monitor surveys. Based on the up-to-date insights provided by the survey, here are twenty things you should know as an educator or parent involved with teenagers today.
1. Today’s teens grow up in small families with 45% having one or no other siblings. One in three has parents who never married or who are no longer married. Most listen to their parents, but they also agree that it’s healthy to have different opinions or beliefs from their parents.
2. Family is very important to teenagers but the thing they can’t live without is their phone. The number of teens with smartphones has doubled in two years. 80 per cent of teenagers now have a smartphone.
3. Bullying is still one of the biggest concerns for young people. Online bullying of teenage girls has increased massively in two years. In 2011, 9% said they’d been bullied. In 2013 it is 36%.
4. Most bullying of boys occurs at school. 74% of teenage boys who are bullied say their bullying happens at school, while bullying of girls is shared more equally between school (55%) and online (43%). The online nature of bullying magnifies the impact of the bullying as everyone can see what’s happening.
5. Losing their virginity begins in this age group. Sixteen per cent of 14 to 17 year olds admit to having sex, with most saying they lost their virginity to a girlfriend or boyfriend. Four in five who are sexually active use a condom. The safe sex education message is getting through.
6. Smoking is on the outer. Only 12% smoke and eight in 10 would like their parents to stop smoking.
7. However, drinking alcohol is still popular. Forty-one per cent say they have been drunk, and the average age that this group first tasted alcohol was 14.
8. Everyone does it. Ninety-nine per cent say it’s acceptable to drink alcohol occasionally.
9. And their parents make it easy for them to drink. Thirty-four per cent of teens in the 14-17 year old age say their parents have bought them alcohol.
10. How a girl looks is linked to her weight. The number one reason girls want to lose weight is to look good. Interestingly, the same reason holds true for boys. 52% of girls would like to lose weight, but only 33% think they are overweight.
11. Hyper-networking drives teen life … and most of it is online. One in two teenagers feels constant pressure to keep up-to-date with social media. If they don’t keep up they may miss out on invitations to parties, knowing what’s going on, gossip and the latest trends.
12. Teens are a lot smarter about using Facebook than two years ago. They have fewer Facebook friends, and now are more likely to use Facebook to stay in contact with ‘real world’ friends rather than purely collecting ‘virtual’ friends and ‘likes’.
13. They are safety conscious too. Only 4% of teens have a totally public profile, which means they are learning about the all-enco
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