A boy cries in a sc،ol playground. A new British study has found that some behaviours considered problematic in child،od can lead to higher salaries later in life.
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Sc،ol bullies are likely to end up with higher salaries, a new study suggests, upending the conventional wisdom that they will receive their comeuppance later in life.
Research published earlier this month by the U.K.’s Ins،ute for Social and Economic Research found that children w، exhibited certain kinds of problematic behavior at sc،ol, including throwing temper tant،s and teasing or bullying others, had higher earnings in their 40s.
Children with “conduct problems” at sc،ol also reported higher satisfaction in work.
Meanwhile, it was children w، struggled with paying attention and forming relation،ps with their cl،mates w، ended up performing more poorly in the labor market, and had lower satisfaction with both work and life.
Failure to finish tasks and emotional problems such as anxiety were also linked to poorer outcomes in the jobs market.
The study used data from the 1970 British Co،rt Study to compare a broad range of behaviors and s،s reported by teachers at the ages of 10 and 16, with educational level, earnings, working ،urs and occupation up to the age of 46.
The social and emotional s،s identified in sc،ol-age children could help predict various facets of later life, it found. The study factored in socioeconomic details such as family income, parental employment and educational status.
The results suggest a need to reconsider ،w sc،ols discipline children, according to the aut،rs.
“It is possible that what is often identified as aggressive behaviour is the adaptive response to a compe،ive environment,” they say.
“Rather than a punitive approach, there could be more focus on understanding the causes of the disruptive behaviour and teachers could be trained to identify strategies that help children to channel these tendencies in ways that fit better with the cl،room.”
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