Neue Forschungsergebnisse zeigen, dass Mädchen in der Schule glücklicher sind als Jungen. Zu verstehen, warum, kann alles auf die Biologie hinauslaufen. Mädchen nehmen durch soziale Beziehungen, auch mit ihren Freunden und Klassenkameraden, mehr von dem Glückshormon Dopamin auf. Jungen erhalten ihr Dopamin durch selbstbezogenes Verhalten.
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/girls-boys-school-wellbeing-study-b2910992.html?test_group=lighteradlayout
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**Girls are happier than boys at school, new research shows**. This is why
Norwegian researchers just confirmed a long-held suspicion for many: girls are happier than boys at school.
**Understanding why may all boil down to biology**, they say.
**Girls get more of the happy hormone dopamine through social relationships, including with their friends and classmates.**
Alternatively, **boys get their dopamine through more self-involved behavior**, and they need more activity because of their higher levels of the male sex hormone testosterone.
“Long school days, sitting still, does not suit boys,“ Hermundur Sigmundsson, a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, explained in a statement.
For those interested, here’s the link to the peer reviewed journal article:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1350293X.2025.2586675
Or it boils down to girls being told to behave and do what they are told while boys are told to work hard and find their own way.
At least it would explain why girls are better prepared for schools than boys and why what they were tought from birth prepared them to follow orders, while boys were prepared to do the opposite.
Almost as if our entire education system was utter trash and only preferable to no education at all.
What can we don in the future to ensure that young boys get the most out of their early school years?
If they can get an education all the same why not make a few adjustments to bring more joy into their education?
Or am I missing the point, it’s 4 am and I can’t sleep.
It’s unsurprising, especially as it’s a women-dominated environment with fewer and fewer men in teaching. Male behaviours are treated as wrong and punished, like anger indicating upset.
Putting a bunch of 5-6 year old boys in a classroom and expecting them to sit on their asses all day isn’t fkn natural! Many boys are hands on, they learn by doing, but nothing in school is practical.
Most importantly, they aren’t allowed nearly enough exercise and movement. And when the resulting behaviour is irritability, fidgeting and consentration issues, we put them on medication. School as it functions today, is setting young boys up to fail.