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1. TOPIC RESEARCH
Soffia, Liv & Libby

2. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-
families/health-news/mental-health-young-people-
are-struggling-to-cope-with-pressures-of-social-
media-sites-studies-find-10496483.html
Top teenage stress points
- Studies/doing well at school (81%)
- Making decisions about the future (35%)
- Arguments with friends (30%)
- Family disputes (29%)
- Finding a boyfriend/girlfriend (20%)
- Looking good on social media (15%)
- Disappointing parents (14%)
- Being popular at school (13%)
- Avoiding bullying (12%)
- Money troubles (11%)
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
/life/health/steps-to-deal-with-
teenage-anxiety-31520571.html
This graph and information was from two different sources and this tells us
what the main stresses are from teenagers in the UK. This helps us to
understand the issues faced by teens and what we can investigate in our
documentary, and also what we can ask in our interviews to gain more
information and guidance to help us. Here, we can address the issues in
more detail and focus on these topics in our documentary.

3. http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/healthadvice/
parentsandyouthinfo/youngpeople/copi
ngwithstress.aspx
http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/studenthealth/
Pages/Copingwithstress.aspx
These websites summarise the effects of
stress and how to help combat it, we
could include this is in our documentary,
so we could give advice for teenagers on
how to be happier. These websites are
professional medical help websites that
would give useful information to our
audience. The things include exercise
and relaxation time and this may be
confirmed also in our interviews.

4. http://www.swnsdigital.com/2
013/04/the-good-life/
http://www.dailymail.co
.uk/femail/article-
2299465/Life-harder-
today-40-years-ago--
s-just-somethings-
saying-parents-
agree.html
This statistic is from 2 different
websites, highlighting the fact
that life is harder now for
teenagers than it was before,
and even older generations may
agree with this. 68% of all those
questioned believe today’s
generation are forced to endure
more hardship, thus leading to a
rise in pressure in teenagers
and mental health issues, in
which we will explore in the
documentary. We could use this
statistic as a opening title to
show immediately what we are
going to be talking about.
This also suggests that
teenagers are more unhappy due
to the amount of hardship they
have to occur.

5. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-
entertainment/health-are-we-putting-too-much-
pressure-on-our-children-1166927.html
This article from the independent
shows the importance of
education, and this is done to
signify why there may be so much
pressure on teenagers. In contrast,
this article also suggests that
grades aren’t that impressive and
only means that the student is able
to please others. Whereas the
grade may not be an achievement
for themselves.

6. https://www.nspcc.org.uk/fighting-for-
childhood/news-opinion/childline-reveals-increase-
exam-stress-counselling-last-year/
This source from the official NSPCC website shows how many children called the
child line helpline in order to gain counselling about exam stress. As exams are
more important now than they used to be, the pressure mounting on students to do
well in the them has increased a huge amount, thus leading to them needing
counselling and help. These statistics have come from two different websites in
order to validate the information, as if it is on two different websites, it is more likely
to be true as they, also would have to check their sources.
http://www.independent.co.uk/student/stu
dent-life/health/childline-expresses-
concern-over-rise-in-number-of-students-
under-exam-stress-a7023746.html

7. http://www.youngminds.org.uk
/training_services/policy/ment
al_health_statistics
http://www.leicestershirehe
althyschools.org.uk/en/cont
ent/cms/blog/children-
young-peo/
This research tells us how the behaviours of teenagers has
deteriorated over the past 25 years or so. This can also
helps us to determine the increase in anti social behaviours
which may have been for different reasons, one might be
the increase in pressures for teenagers or the society now
that may think this is more acceptable now than it used to
be. The age that the statistics go back are around the same
age our parents were when they were around the teen age
and therefore would be a useful statistic to use when talking
about strains throughout teenage-hood throughout the
generations.