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Success at the cost of health
Posted on: 15/Jul/2015 11:27:22 AM
A study by Northwestern University says that young people from lower income groups achieve success at the cost of their health. The study was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
According to the study, children from low income groups receive less education, are relatively less healthy and are also susceptible to crimes, when compared to more affluent children. The health is a cause for concern due to pressure and relentless pursuit of their goals.
Says the author of the study, ‘Emerging data suggest that for low-income youth, self-control may act as a double-edged sword, facilitating academic success and psychosocial adjustment, while at the same time undermining physical health... (We have) found that those adolescents, who had high levels of self-control or the ability to focus on long-term goals over more immediate ones, fared better on a variety of psychological outcomes as young adults... The psychologically successful adolescents with high self-control have cells that are biologically old, relative to their chronological age... There seemed to be an underlying biological cost to the self-control and the success it enabled and this was most evident in the youth from the lowest-income families.’
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