研究：青少年时期的“酷小孩”在成年后更易误入歧途

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It is bad news for the rebels(叛逆者) without a cause and mean girls. Being a “cool kid” can come back to bite you in later life, researchers have warned.

They found that teens who “acted cool” at school were far more likely to struggle as an adult, and were at higher risk of alcohol and drugs, and more likely to have taken part in criminal activities. Overall, teens who tried to act cool in early adolescence were more likely than their peers who didn’t act cool to experience a range of problems in early adulthood.

“It appears that while so-called cool teens’ behavior might have been linked to early popularity, over time, these teens needed more and more extreme behaviors to try to appear cool, at least to a subgroup of other teens,” says Joseph P. Allen, Hugh P. Kelly Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia. “So they became involved in more serious criminal behavior and alcohol and drug use as adolescence progressed. These previously cool teens appeared less competent — socially and otherwise — than their less cool peers by the time they reached young adulthood.”

Researchers warn that cool teens are often idolized(偶像化) in popular media, such as James Dean’s Rebel Without a Cause and Tina Fey’s Mean Girls. However, they discovered that seeking popularity and attention by trying to act older than their age may not yield the expected benefits.

Researchers followed 184 teens from age 13, when they were in seventh and eighth grades, to age 23, collecting information from the teens themselves as well as from their peers and parents. The teens attended public school in suburban and urban areas in the southeastern United States and were from racially and ethnically(种族地) diverse backgrounds.

By 22, those once-cool teens were rated by their peers as being less competent in managing social relationships. They were also more likely to have had significant problems with alcohol and drugs, and to have engaged in criminal activities, according to the study.

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