Here's vindication for everyone who didn't date much in high school.
Generations of teen movies — from “Sixteen Candles” to “Clueless” to this year’s “Booksmart” — have upheld dating and hooking up in high school as not only a rite of passage, but also a sign of being a confident and socially adjusted adolescent.In fact, a new study suggests that teens who stay single during those formative years are actually happier than those riding the highs and lows of hormone-fueled relationship roller coasters.
“Does this mean that teens that don’t date are maladjusted in some way? That they are social misfits?” she said in an interview with the University of Georgia’s online newspaper. “Few studies had examined the characteristics of youth who do not date during the teenage years, and we decided we wanted to learn more.”
What’s more, their teachers rated these single students “significantly higher” for social and leadership skills than their coupled classmates. And both the students themselves and the teachers reported that the non-dating teens were happier and less depressed. The number of students who self-reported feeling sad or hopeless was also “significantly lower” in the non-dating group.
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