Teens who have a positive outlook tend to live healthier as adults than teens who are not happy. This conclusion is generated based on a survey of more than 10.000 teens in America.
Researchers from Northwestern University analyzed the data collected from thousands of teens that began in 1994. The teens answered questions about physical and emotional health in the years 1994, 1995, and 2001. Questions focused on teens understanding for happiness, enjoyment of life, hope for the future, self-esteem and social acceptance.
Then the results were compared with the answers in 1994 with 2001 to determine whether the positive thoughts can be a way of predicting general health in adulthood.
The result are, teens who feel happy have fewer problem behaviors, such as smoking, alcoholism, or eating unhealthy foods. Generally a happy teens has very good physical health in 2001.
"good Welfare during teens are significantly associated with their health when they grow up," said of researcher Emma K. Adam. (M05-11)
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