The head of both the international and Israeli survey is Dr. Yossi Harel-Fish from Bar Ilan University * Not only girls - boys also think they are fat * Encouraging statistic: low rate of use of cigarettes, drugs and alcohol
On Tuesday, the findings of the World Health Organization's multinational survey on healthy behaviors among school students were published in Europe. The survey was conducted once every four years and began in 1984. The last survey examined 41 countries and the data collected in Israel gives an interesting picture: it turns out that 90% of the youth in Israel define themselves as happy. Our boys also smoke less cigarettes and drugs, think they are fatter than they really are, but also exercise less and watch too much TV. Despite everything, the situation with us is not so bad. The study shows that Israel is placed below the average of most European and North American countries, in the indices that examined these areas.
In the Israeli sample, approximately 6,000 students in the 22th, XNUMXth, and XNUMXth grades from state, state religious schools and in Arab-Israeli education were examined. The main researcher in Israel is Dr. Yossi Harel-Fish, the head of the international research program on the well-being and health of youth at the School of Education and the Department of Criminology at Bar-Ilan University, who has served for the past XNUMX years on the steering team of the entire international study, says with the publication of the results of the study that "The survey proves that the Israeli youth have many points of resilience and strength, but also major issues that cause concern. We must use the information to learn from the successes and allow him to grow here happily and safely."
In the international study titled Health Behavior in School-Aged Children (HBSC), over 204 thousand 11,13,15th, 41th, and 5,686th grade students (ages 2,902, 3,711, XNUMX) were surveyed in schools in XNUMX countries in North America and Europe and in which the students were asked detailed questions about Health issues, risk behavior and social contexts affecting young people in industrialized countries. The questionnaires were filled in by the children themselves at school completely anonymously. As mentioned, XNUMX subjects participated from Israel, XNUMX boys and XNUMX girls.
The study revealed an interesting and varied picture of the situation of the youth in Israel in the various fields:
Israeli children are thin, convinced that they are fat, yet do not play sports
The study found that Israeli children in all age groups measured are thinner than the world average, but many of them are convinced that they are fat, and the girls are not alone.
For example, 32% of girls and 24% of boys at the age of 15, think they are fat, when in practice the real percentage of fat is 8% in girls and 17% in boys. A quarter of the 11-year-old girls who were tested also thought they were fat, when in fact only 9% were found to be so. A similar figure is also found among the boys of this age.
Despite the exaggerated image regarding their body weight, the percentage of 15-year-old children who reported physical activity every day is the lowest in the West - 13% of boys and 6% of girls.
Despite global efforts in recent years to eradicate the problem of obesity and adhere to a healthy and balanced diet, the international report indicates that even today girls are more likely to diet to reduce weight and are less satisfied with their bodies.
Less alcohol, but from a younger age
The study ranked Israeli children last in the rate of earning at least twice a month. However, 8% of the 11-year-olds claimed that they drank alcoholic beverages at least once a month - a figure that ranks them in second place in Europe! This finding indicates a significant worsening in the younger years where small children adopt the drinking habits of older children.
Electronic communication between members
The study ranked Israeli children at the age of 15 in fifth place in daily use of electronic means to keep in touch with their friends, such as telephone, SMS and instant messages on the computer. 64% of girls and 54% of boys reported keeping in touch with their friends electronically every day.
Additional findings
- Smoking - low percentages: Israel ranks low in smoking rates among teenagers. The proportion of 15-year-old children who reported that they started smoking before the age of 13 is the lowest in the world (9%).
- Improvement in safe sexual behavior: the sexual information and warning against the danger of AIDS is doing its job and the survey reveals a decrease in the number of children who reported that they had ever been involved in sexual relations - from 24% in 2002 to 17% in the current report referring to 2006. Even among the children who were sexually active There is a very dramatic increase in the rate of condom use. These two indicators show that there has been a change for the better in the awareness of the youth, which makes them even after the age of first experience and increase the probability of using a condom.
- TV viewing habits: Israeli children are in the top ten for watching TV two hours or more every day - over 75% of the youth do this, compared to 68% of the average in industrialized countries.
- Dislike the school: Israeli children are not satisfied with their school, in the 25th grade only 18% of the girls and XNUMX% of the boys like their school. This rate is even lower in sixth grades.
לThe official research data on the World Health Organization website
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The HBSC team we expect you to publish the full report just as the global HBSC published it
It's been two years and it's a shame. The data obviously does not belong to anyone personally and belongs to all citizens of Israel.
(This comment was in the spirit of Hanan's words. He claimed that the aliens' aircraft work by canceling the Earth's gravity.)
Hurry up, Hanan on TV!
It turns out that we have already discovered everything about the force of gravity!
On the children's channel it was said that he will appear tomorrow as well, if my memory serves me correctly.
in the afternoon (around 14:15 p.m.).
Yes.
It can be found by searching on Google.
You're right, I'll turn to the children's channel.
Septem or Hanan,
Is there a place where the show can be seen?
Thanks,
Roy.
September:
The criticism should be directed to the children's channel, in my opinion.
They are the ones who choose the people who appear in their programs, and if they had a lot of time to convey scientific content, you would not come to the rabbi with claims that he says that the world was created less than 6000 years ago, but to the authority that allowed him to appear, who was already qualified in science.
Does the children's channel have a website?
to express*.
Matriculation in mathematics shows its signs.
Hanan, I really appreciate you as an educator.
But(!), I was very disappointed that you agreed to appear on the children's channel and give information to children who cannot judge it properly.
About the "gray extraterrestrial", the Herpetalian, and others like that. By the way, it is interesting to know where the hypothesis comes from that the gray aliens are not born, but are produced by genetic engineering. What is the evidence for this?
I was really disappointed in a way that is hard for me to express. I thought everyone had their own opinions, and I thought it was clear to all of us that it was wrong to bring up such things in front of children. (Just as it is wrong to make claims about Bigfoot in front of such an audience, in my opinion).
If anything, I would expect that as a gesture of fairness you would request that a skeptic be invited as well.
I was just shocked, you sat there and delivered the things as if there was a special department for the subject in Cambridge.
Anyway, I felt the need to bring up my disappointment.
There is no doubt Michael that you are right. I was talking about happiness as a certain general state, which this article tries to explain. But the real problem actually starts at home and continues in the education system that has long gone bankrupt.
Since home education (or the lack of education) cannot be fixed, the education system was supposed to take care of it. She used to take care, but today???
My late mother was a teacher abroad (I come from a family of teachers and school administrators) and in Israel she taught private lessons for over 30 years. I myself taught private lessons from the age of 16 until a few years ago. During these periods, I learned to see the poor level of the system and its inability to "deliver the goods".
I myself did not contact the Minister of Education, because I know some of the "controlling" figures in the Ministry of Education, and in my opinion there is no one to talk to. There is a group there among which there are several gentlemen and ladies whose words honesty, reliability and professionalism are from them onwards. I had the "honor" to see them in "action". It's amazing how corrupt and fundamentally rotten this office is (the circus that was with Ben-Shabbat, for example, is only the tip of the iceberg).
As a curiosity, I will tell you that at the time I applied to the Calbotek program, in order for it to examine some of the same acts of corruption that I pointed out. The producers of the show did not see fit to invest any effort in this (but there is no rating on the issue related to the education system).
I don't blame the teachers. The teachers today are not the teachers they were 30 years ago or more - neither professionally nor on a personal level. Very few people are attracted to teaching because it interests them. Most teachers enter the profession out of a lack of choice. If we examine the entire system, from the kindergartens to the high school, there is a need to rebuild the entire system. To be honest, I wouldn't mind if they returned it to what it was 30 years ago.
Hanan Sabat
http://WWW.EURA.ORG.IL
Hanan:
If you have followed my comments on this website in all matters related to education, you must have noticed that I completely agree with you regarding the alarming deterioration that exists in the field.
This is really a long-term deterioration that for some reason seems to me to be only gaining momentum.
Septem's criticism of the system is also completely acceptable to me and the situation bothers me as much as it bothers you.
Personally, I have already written several letters to the Minister of Education about the problems I see in the field and steps that can be taken to improve.
I received rather formulaic answers written, in my opinion, by its officials. I doubt very much if she read the things and it is about the current Sara that I really had my hopes up on (I had no expectations from the previous one).
However - I would not go so far as to claim that this is what makes the youth happy.
I know that a good education system does not harm happiness, but on the contrary - enhances it.
In fact, to me, there is a positive feedback loop between a good education and happiness and they can be harnessed for each other's benefit.
When I studied at the university I used to give private lessons to high school students and college students.
This short experience in teaching taught me two things:
One is that I like to teach (unfortunately, one of the reasons for the deterioration of the education system is that the low salary that teachers receive discourages talented people from practicing this profession - this is the reason why I chose a different career).
The second is that all I had to do for the students (who came to me with an average score of 4-5) to raise their average score to 8-10 during four or five lessons was to restore their self-confidence and show them how beautiful the subject (usually mathematics) is and how fun it is It is to solve problems.
It just worked and the people really liked coming to the classes.
Septem is right….
I think these problems have several sources. There is no one to blame, but many groups that joined together: parents, teachers, the education system, the media, Israeli culture and various other factors. All of them together create the sad phenomenon of shallowness in Israeli culture (oops... I forgot Ninet and "Survival").
I don't know if we will provoke a wave of crying reactions. I think the opposite is possible. As Israelis, we are unable to look at ourselves in the mirror. We are unable to accept criticism. We don't have an "Ollenspiegel missile" to put a mirror in front of our faces. That is why we are convinced that we are the strongest, the smartest, the most hi-tech, the most educated, the most enlightened, the most just nation - and we forgot: the shekel and the Israeli economy are the most stable.
My endless articles praising us as Israelis and the Israeli genius will attest to this. What a shame when you look at us from the side, a completely different picture emerges - the Israeli geniuses go abroad, the successful scientists run away from here, Apple will not market the new iPhones in Israel (I wonder why), most of the youth are ignorant and illiterate, Israeli culture is characterized by incredible shallowness and misery, and we as Who live in a fifth world country (barely), continue to jump in the swamp and think that paradise is here.
It seems to me that some of the builders of the country would have turned upside down, if they knew what we really look like and where we are leading the country.
It's a shame that there is no one who will restore and dare to return the education system 30-40 years behind. There is no one who dares to abolish the institution of concessions and the epidemic of dyslexia and "learning disabilities" that has spread in the country, there is no one who will return the uniform uniforms and the orders in the schools to the students, there is no one who will return the respect for the teachers, there is no one who will return the teachers who once were, there is no one who will return the groupings and the possibility leave a grade student. there's nothing. Everyone who sleeps, is busy taking care of his throne, his salary, the promotion of his associates and his and his family's pension conditions (yes, of course this is also the case in the education system. The corruption in it is no different from the general public corruption).
Only if leaders arise again, such as those who founded the country, maybe then we can restore everything, starting from the point where we started to fall apart.
Hanan Sabat
http://WWW.EURA.ORG.IL
Hanan, I definitely agree with you about the phenomena. But unfortunately 1 and 2 are almost self-evident and have nothing to do with Israeliness in a distinct way, at least in my opinion.
By the way, the copy&paste method is encouraged in many cases also in the classrooms. One of the things I hate more; the articles.
But I'm still not clear from which direction the whole thing is coming from... from the students who pressure the teachers to dictate, or from the teachers (some of them) who find it right to dictate.
Anyway, I just loathe this method. But the situation is probably more complex than the article itself, when education at home also encourages subculture and lack of interest, as you mentioned.
I must also comment regarding graduation; Their level is just a joke. (if you try not to cry).
I studied physics for two years. I then switched to a biology track. After a year of studying biology (let's leave the shallow content, for now), I approached all the matriculations (all 3 units of the theoretical matriculation) on the same day, and it was a joke. Sufficient superficial general knowledge to pass the matriculation in biology with honors.
In the Bible, the case is similar. There is no need to even study. It has become a test in understanding the ancient Bible. My life.
It is not clear to me whether there really are stupid matriculations that drag students into ignorance, or whether the students succeed in such an insulting way that they had to turn the matriculations into such sad documents.
Perhaps, in general, this is a kind of vicious circle in which one factor leads to another, which in turn leads to the first. It is not clear where they are aiming with the matter.
Sometimes I get really embarrassed during exams. It's discouraging.
In any case, I am short on locating the source of the problem...
In the meantime I will be forced to grunt well and help however I can. It's not much, unfortunately.
Wow, it seems to me that there will be a wave of reactions crying out for the youth and Israeli education.
To be honest, Michael, I don't need to go far or to the clubs, in order to understand the reasons for the heavenly happiness that overwhelms the youth. Filling your head is good, the question is whether with knowledge or with organic materials from the family of priests?
As someone who has been in the so-called "Israeli education system" (if it is allowed to be called that) for many years, I know the phenomenon intimately. And every year that passes, I understand more and more what an abyss we are approaching and will fall into.
If the entire phenomenon can be summed up in a few lines, then the youth today for the most part simply suffer from a few phenomena:
1. Overfunding by parents. Those who are able to line their children's pockets with money, using the method of taking as much as you can without control. Many parents do not bother to check what their children are doing with the money that flows to them.
2. Over-protection or over-neglect - an interesting phenomenon. Many parents will protect their children in an extreme way and will always justify their actions. In such cases, the education system will always be found guilty and the child is always right. On the other hand, there is the phenomenon of excessive neglect - parents who are not interested in their children's actions. These parents are not interested in where the children are, who their friends are, what their places of entertainment are, in short - promiscuity.
3. Ignorance and the Israeli subculture - if there is something we really excel at, it is the cultivation of a subculture based on illiteracy and complete ignorance (many children have never read a book, never opened a newspaper or magazine, and in any case do not understand what they are reading) . I encounter such cases from high school to university. Many young people today write with terrible spelling errors, do not understand what they read (if they even bother to read), and in terms of cultivating general knowledge and interest in the world around them, they show a profound ignorance. The education system in Israel is based on learning and memorization, without the need to engage in any kind of thinking. The students in Israel learn more and more the theory of copy&paste. Unfortunately, this phenomenon, plus the phenomenon of copying, forgeries and cheating, is gaining more and more prominence in universities as well.
4. Failed education system - the education system has become a breeding ground for experiments on humans. All kinds of theories and studies find their way to the students - different and strange teaching methods, poor quality or delusional textbooks (see the books of the Weizmann Institute for the Study of Programming, for example) etc. The schools are flooded with all kinds of counselors and psychologists, who diagnose (sometimes wholesale) the children as suffering from such learning difficulties and others, and provide them with relief from all sides. This situation has created an entire generation of children who are addicted to Ritalin, defined as suffering from difficulty concentrating, studying, etc., according to the good imagination of the diagnosticians. The situation is so absurd that, parallel to the inexplicable ease and ease of the matriculation exams, sometimes entire classes are submitted for matriculation exams when all their students are defined as those who need reading/extra time/rewriting, etc. Just one big circus.
And no, don't say I exaggerated or included. The things said above are very, very modest compared to reality...
These were 60 seconds about some of the great happiness symptoms of the youth in Israel...
Hanan Sabat
http://WWW.EURA.ORG.IL
Thumbs up.
Thanks!
September:
I'm sure you understand the awkwardness.
You just say that you personally get over this embarrassment easily but not everyone feels the same way and I guess you know that.
There are people with less self-confidence, there are people who cannot get to a distant pharmacy and are afraid that when their parents get to the pharmacy the pharmacist will tell them, etc.
Between us - what I am doing now is only to explain why the results of the statistical study carried out are not contrary to logic. I can't say I'm so confident in the explanation I would have given even if I hadn't read about the study. that's how life is. We assign a probability value to the truth of each claim and update this value according to the findings.
For me, the current research raised the probability of the correctness of the explanation I gave.
Regarding happiness, I definitely agree with Michael. The best feeling I feel is when I read a good book, or a quality article.
Nonfiction... they said it before us.
By the way, Michael, I don't understand what the awkwardness is about. Why should you tell someone? Perhaps the only thing that is a little awkward is the first time you go alone to buy contraceptives. When you take out the package of condoms and place it hesitantly on the counter, the saleswoman gives a half smile.
In any case, there may be a matter of fear of AIDS or something like that. I assume that future surveys will say, after all, such are conducted all the time.
Television=stupidity=happiness.
Hanan:
It does not seem to me that by visiting clubs in Israel you can conclude anything about the comparison between them and the rest of the world or even statistics about what is happening in Israel.
In such visits you can at most bang your head.
Personally, I'm not young, but at least for me, happiness actually increases the more I manage to fill my head.
By the way, are you personally happy?
Why do a survey? It is enough to see the clubs on weekends, in order to understand how common the use of cigarettes, alcohol and drugs is. There is no good from the sight of the eyes.
And about the feeling of happiness (I don't know what it's caused by), maybe it's true. He who has an empty head is usually happy...
Hanan Sabat
http://WWW.EURA.ORG.IL
Ami:
I knew everything you said and yet - if I have to guess at the moment whether the results of the lie reflect reality (on the issue of having sex at an early age) or not - I definitely believe that they reflect reality.
In fact, no one has put forward any reason to reject these conclusions and they are in contradiction only with... Unfounded prejudices.
This comes out very well from the words of Septem who said that it is hard for him to believe that this is the case even though this is what he sees for himself.
Michael,
Statistics should not be nefarious or come from a tendency to necessarily create a lie in order not to reflect reality well. There are quite a few factors that will affect a statistical test, such as an unequal sample between males and females, as we see in these data. It must be understood that statistics is a slightly different science: it tries to draw attention to trends while neglecting such and such (some less logical and some more) which indirectly and/or directly affect the results.
Let's say that in a statistical test of type A we had subjects who sat in an air-conditioned room and in the exact same test a group sat in a non-air-conditioned room. Will the test takers' level of happiness be reflected in the test results? What about the amount of homework they got that day? Was there zero hour or not? Was it on the annoying Sunday or Thursday when the weekend was coming?
Even without being biased, we influence the results by imprecisely planning a test. I assume that when it comes to 5000 children, the variation in test conditions is significantly different between different groups as well as a function of socioeconomic or geographic status.
Best regards,
Ami Bachar
No brain no worries.
September:
Nevertheless, the "fear" of AIDS permeates and becomes more influential over time and the need to use contraceptives complicates the matter because suddenly you have to tell someone (and usually someone who lives next door and knows the parents) that you intend to have sex.
I actually repeat that the statistics described in the article (as well as the small statistics you compiled without meaning to about your sister's age group) do not lie (and there is no reason for it to lie - the researchers did not have any trend when they compiled it)
To be honest, as a teenager, I'm almost convinced that the overwhelming majority of teenagers just say they don't like their school, when they actually love it. Why say otherwise? Because anyone who likes school must be a nerd, and it's better to avoid this stigma In their eyes…
By the way, I'm almost certain that there has been no decrease in the rate of intercourse. I just don't see a reason for it. From 2002 to 2006 the awareness regarding venereal diseases and sexual contact can certainly increase. But why would it lead to a reduction in sexual contact? It seems to me that it was supposed to lead to an increase in sexual intercourse + an increase in the use of protection and contraceptives.
Although I look at my little sister's age group and they really seem much less sexually mature to me. But maybe that's just what I want to see. so who knows
Thanks for the interesting article.
Two problems and a surprising figure in this article:
1) Why is the ratio of subjects 40:60 boys and girls respectively?
2) It is surprising that 17% of the boys are really obese. The environmental pressure on girls to stay thin is taking its toll and indeed only 8% of the subjects were fat. Are boys subjected to less pressure? Or are they more resistant to pressure? Maybe both.
3) "The survey reveals a decrease in the number of children who reported that they had ever been involved in sexual relations - from 24% in 2002 to 17% in the current report referring to 2006." For me, this figure means one simple thing: the error of the survey is at least 7% (and it could be more than that), because I don't think that such a percentage will change among teenagers and in our era it certainly won't decrease.
Happy youth is a problematic concept. It's a strange time in life. Teenagers will be happier, I think, as their level of freedom of expression increases. Socioeconomic status, although directly related to the level of happiness, to my gut feeling will be marginal in this context to the level of happiness of the youth.
Greetings friends,
Ami Bachar
(With all the sadness in the matter, he is getting further and further away from his youth and is aging exponentially in a surprising way - although he is also 90% happy)