JamesG
03-29-2024, 12:10 PM
Class Bullies May Earn More in Middle Age, Study Finds
by Jenni Reid
March 27, 2024
School 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 Institute for Social and Economic Research found that children who exhibited certain kinds of problematic behavior at school, including aggressive tendencies and teasing or bullying others, had higher earnings in their 40s.
Children with “conduct problems” at school also reported higher satisfaction in work.
Meanwhile, it was children who struggled with paying attention, self-esteem, and forming relationships with their classmates who 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 Cohort Study to compare a broad range of behaviors and skills reported by teachers at the ages of 10 and 16, with educational level, earnings, working hours and occupation up to the age of 46.
The social and emotional skills identified in school-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.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/27/class-bullies-may-earn-more-in-middle-age-study-finds.html
by Jenni Reid
March 27, 2024
School 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 Institute for Social and Economic Research found that children who exhibited certain kinds of problematic behavior at school, including aggressive tendencies and teasing or bullying others, had higher earnings in their 40s.
Children with “conduct problems” at school also reported higher satisfaction in work.
Meanwhile, it was children who struggled with paying attention, self-esteem, and forming relationships with their classmates who 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 Cohort Study to compare a broad range of behaviors and skills reported by teachers at the ages of 10 and 16, with educational level, earnings, working hours and occupation up to the age of 46.
The social and emotional skills identified in school-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.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/27/class-bullies-may-earn-more-in-middle-age-study-finds.html