can u find me a published article about society affecting teenagers?

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it can be about teenagers being anoroxic ...etc

just anything about society affecting teenagers

Answer 1

Teen suicide is a serious problem in the United States. It is the third leading cause of death among teenagers — almost 2,000 teens kill themselves each year.1

Many more teens attempt suicide. A recent survey of high-school students found that:

Almost 1 in 5 had seriously considered attempting suicide;
More than 1 in 6 had made plans to attempt suicide; and
More than 1 in 12 had made a suicide attempt in the past year.2
If you look around a class of 25 students, at least five are likely to have seriously considered suicide, and at least two are likely to have tried to kill themselves in the past year.

Female teens are much more likely to attempt suicide than males 3, but male teens are four times more likely to actually kill themselves.4

Over sixty-percent of teens who kill themselves use guns
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In the past 25 years, while the general incidence of suicide has decreased, the rate for those between 15 and 24 has tripled. It is generally considered to be the second or third most common cause of death among adolescents, even though it is seriously underreported.

Adults need to take the possibility of teen suicide seriously even if their community has not experienced one. Teen depression and thoughts of suicide are more common than many adults assume and there are as many as 50 to 100 suicide attempts for every young person who actually takes his or her own life.
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The foremost theoretician on suicide, Emile Durkheim, defined three types. The first is altruistic suicide, where the individual is so closely integrated into a group or society that he or she will commit suicide for the perceived benefit of the group. Examples would be the Japanese kamikaze pilots of World War II and the mass suicide at Jonestown.

The second type is egoistic suicide; this is characterized by a strong value system, weak group integration and an overpowering sense of personal responsibility. The group itself is not strong enough to provide the individual with a sufficient source of outside support and strength and the society is not sufficiently integrated to be able collectively to mitigate the individual’s feeling of responsibility and guilt for moral weakness and failure.

Psychologist Antoon Leenaars, president of the Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention, says the reasons for this gender disparity are more sociological than psychological.(1) He explains that males are socialized to hide their feelings and deny pain if they are "to be men." This emphasizes personal responsibility for not fitting into the dominant male culture.

Suicide has been related to lack of social integration, feelings of "alienation" in the population, transience, and rapid changes in values, income and lifestyle. Poor job prospects, families in a state of flux, and changing social and moral values could all contribute to high youth suicide rates in the population as a whole. It is important to realize that suicidal behaviour is not necessarily linked to mental health problems and that unemployment and alcoholism are not widespread problems among suicidal teenagers themselves.
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The teenage suicide rate has risen to crisis proportions over the past 20 years. Between 1957 and 1975, the rate of suicide among 15 to 24 year olds tripled; among Native American adolescents, the suicide rate increased 1000% (TEENAGERS IN CRISIS, l983). It is estimated that 5,000 to 6,000 teenagers kill themselves each year, and at least ten times that many attempt to do so. Because many suicide attempts go unreported or are reported as accidents, the estimated number may be as high as 500,000 per year. While females attempt suicide more often than males, at a rate of 4:1, males "succeed" more often, at the same rate (SUICIDE AMONG SCHOOL AGE YOUTH, l984).

How do researchers interpret this phenomenon? The rising rate has been explained as a reaction to the stress inherent in adolescence compounded by increasing stress in the environment. Adolescence is a time when ordinary levels of stress are heightened by physical, psychological, emotional, and social changes. Adolescents suffer a feeling of loss for the childhood they must leave behind, and undergo an arduous period of adjustment to their new adult identity. In single-parent families, this adjustment may be even more difficult. Yet society alienates adolescents from their new identity by not allowing them the rights and responsibilities of adulthood. They are no longer children, but they are not accorded the adult privileges of expressing their sexuality or holding a place in the work force.

Our achievement-oriented, highly competitive society puts pressure on teens to succeed, often forcing them to set unrealistically high personal expectations. There is increased pressure to stay in school, where success is narrowly defined and difficult to achieve. In an affluent society which emphasizes immediate rewards, adolescents are not taught to be tolerant of frustration. Blurred gender roles can also be confusing and frustrating for teens (Rosenkrantz, 1978).