Girls 'more resilient' than boys at school

Hello, today I’m going to talk about an interesting article I have read.

It’s a recent discovery that reveals something very impresive: that at school, girls are more resilient than boys. What does this mean? That girls try to prevent feeling bad when they have problems at their home (that’s resilence) because that could affect their behaviour at school.

A study showed a tendency on girls from UK schools to have better marks than their male classmates. To explain this, the educational researchers had talked about a variety of factors connected to physiology and environment, even saying thay boys are more resistant to educational system inherently. But there isn’t any solid evidence.



Instead, they found that boys from a no-traditional family estructure, displayed more behavioural and self-control problems in the school. The girls from a single-parent family doesn’t show this behaviour as strong as boys, and this diference is a mistery for the professors and educators. As Marianne Bertrand (study co-author) says, “the parental input just becomes more relevant for the boys than for the girls”.

She states that this isn’t an attempt to stigmatize single parents. Is a relevant fact because home background is an estructure really important, and it seems that it makes more difference to boys than to girls, as Dylan Wiliam -professor of educational assessment at London University's Institute of Education- says. "It could be that girls are more resilient, but then also less able to take advantage of the very strong effects of positive parenting" he claims.

I think this is really important to psychology because family estructures and gender could be decisive factors on the development of students, and their quality of life.

You can read the article here: ttp://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/dec/29/girls-resilient-outperform-boys-school

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