28 | Unlike adults, teenagers underestimate the consequences of risky behaviour | 137 | 273 | 64 | 23 | 20 |
29 | More quality time with teenagers can make up for less quantity time | 60 | 245 | 84 | 19 | 109 |
30 | Successful transition from adolescence to adulthood is achieved through detachment from parents | 34 | 155 | 154 | 114 | 60 |
31 | Popular teenagers are usually mean/aggressive | 28 | 125 | 198 | 107 | 59 |
32 | Peer pressure only causes teenagers to make bad decisions | 59 | 193 | 143 | 82 | 40 |
33 | Boys only use “sticks & stones”/physical force while girls use words instead | 29 | 103 | 149 | 212 | 24 |
34 | Most teenagers have a strained relationship with their parents | 22 | 152 | 170 | 107 | 66 |
35 | Asking a student if they ever thought about suicide “plants a seed” and makes them more likely to actually attempt suicide | 10 | 71 | 158 | 207 | 71 |
36 | Teenagers only listen to their peers | 17 | 94 | 191 | 178 | 37 |
37 | When girls are sexually assaulted it is usually be a stranger | 12 | 64 | 181 | 208 | 52 |
38 | Most college/university students graduate in 4 years | 34 | 233 | 100 | 39 | 111 |
39 | College is the happiest time of one’s life | 31 | 146 | 163 | 75 | 102 |
40 | Teenagers these days are worse behaved than those in previous generations. | 84 | 112 | 155 | 102 | 64 |
41 | School violence is on the rise | 117 | 218 | 75 | 31 | 76 |
42 | Boot camps get teens “on the right track” | 17 | 108 | 151 | 96 | 145 |
43 | Most teenagers party with drugs or alcohol on weekends | 77 | 185 | 145 | 65 | 45 |
44 | DARE programmes prevent teenage drug use | 21 | 85 | 78 | 53 | 280 |
45 | Listening to heavy metal or rap music makes teenagers more likely to defy authority | 11 | 80 | 135 | 251 | 40 |
46 | Teenagers have the highest suicide rate | 44 | 149 | 126 | 60 | 138 |
47 | Goggles mimicking drunkenness helps prevent impaired driving | 10 | 117 | 102 | 68 | 220 |
48 | Teenagers can be “scared straight” | 21 | 123 | 108 | 139 | 126 |
49 | Sexting is only a teenage problem | 6 | 19 | 120 | 344 | 28 |
50 | Traditional high school driver education courses have a strong record of making teenagers safe drivers | 19 | 164 | 84 | 28 | 222 |