Getting popular in the high school doesn’t mean your life is better, but is the opposite

Getting popular in the high school doesn’t mean your life is better, but is the opposite

If you watch a movie that involves high school story, you may have found that the story comprises popular boys or girls versus unpopular people or popular with the name geek, or nerd. However, recent study suggested that these people who were popular during their high school experience mental problem in their adult ages.

What happen? Is it karma? Or is it action equal reaction according to the third’s law of Newton of motions?

During the high school, children tend to communicate in groups, although sometimes he or she has few closest friends. This social groups are essential for them and among the popular people, they intend to be the best in their groups. Therefore, during their teen ages, the researchers asked them several questions after graduating from the schools. These questions had asked for ten year periods from the age of 15 to 25.

The researchers surveyed the 169 teens by giving them questionnaire about their closest friends, how the friendship is going to be, and how about their feeling after graduation such as anxiety, depression, social acceptance, and also self-worth. The important thing is not being missed by the researchers because they also assign the respondents to rank their friends, -- in each other system, about their popularity during the high schools.

So it means that if I know someone which was very popular in the past, I should have answered how I feel about him or her right now based on our communication as friends.

The result of questionnaire is shockingly interesting. The scientists found that the teenagers and their closest friends who are not popular during their high school transform into adjusted adults people. To be precise, during their adultery ages, they had little of social anxiety, they are lack of depression, and a better experience of self-worth. Compared to their popular friends in high school, the unpopular teens are happier than those who are popular.

According to this research, the important thing during the high school era is the ability of communicating and trusting each other. Youth is the era for children to understand the good and bad things of something. If they experience low quality of friendship, they will try to change it in the future as the result of self-evaluation.