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Chinese Youth maturing late psychologically
www.chinanews.cn 2005-09-09 15:39:16
Chinanews, Sept. 9 - Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences announced
yesterday a survey spanning four cities and reflecting 15 years of
research into adolescents and find that current youths display certain
psychological "late maturation" compared to youths five years ago.
The survey finds that urban youths' sex education, while continuing to
advance, shows signs of step-by-step pauses. Taking youth girls' age at
menarche, for example, the average age in is 13.38 in 1989, 12.54 in
1999, but 12.70 in 2004. Taking young boys' earliest age of first
spermatorrhoea, the average age is 14.43 in 1989, 13.85 in 1999 and 13.47
in 2004.
Experts believe these phenomena have close relationship of the
over-protectiveness of the "one child" in most families.
Yang Xiong, head of the Institute of Youth and Juvenile Studies under
Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, analyzed it this way. Compared to
five years ago, the current group of adolescents has more fragile psyche
to bear psychological pressure. Although they receive more information
about sex, due to over-indulgence by their parents, these children
exhibit "late maturation" in certain psychological areas while
progressing on their physical maturity. They are not psychologically
prepared to become "adults".
Nearly 40% of young men learn "sex" from the internet.
The survey shows more and more adolescents treat the classroom as
effective means to receive sex education. 51.6% of males and 62.5% of
females surveyed say they obtain sex education from their school
curriculum. In 1999, this ratio was 31.98% and 28.53% respectively.
What is noteworthy is that the internet, as a late-comer, has taken over
as chief transmission medium for knowledge on sex. The proportion of
young males that have surfed websites with sexual content has increased
ten percentage points from 1999, reaching 37%.
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