New Study Claims Texting Adversely Affects Girls’ Academic Performance
If your teenage daughter’s school grades are dwindling, you might want to find out if she obsessed with chatting apps and help her kick the habit as a new study claims texting can affect teenage girls’ school grades, but has no effect on the academic performance of boys.
Studies previously found teenagers’ preferred method of communication is texting with 60 per cent of teenagers texting daily while just under two fifths used their mobile phones for voice calls. Most send and receive an average of 167 texts per day.
According to the new study published by the American Psychological Association, while girls do not text more than boys, they use text messages to interact with friends and nurture relationships, while boys use them to convey basic information. The research discovered as girls become more compulsive in their behaviour, texts disrupts their schooling, resulting in poorer academic performance.
Dr Kelly Lister-Landman of Delaware County Community College said: ‘It appears that it is the compulsive nature of texting, rather than sheer frequency, that is problematic. Compulsive texting is more complex than frequency of texting. It involves trying and failing to cut back on texting, becoming defensive when challenged about the behaviour, and feeling frustrated when one can’t do it.’
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To an extent it’s true
It’s a 50/ 50 thing anyways.
We don hear. Anyway thanks MIM for sharing.
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