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Volume 3: No. 2, April 2006
| Source of Stress | Approximate Percentage of Teens | |
|---|---|---|
| Experience Stress Sometimes or Often | Worry About Stress Sometimes or Often | |
| School work | 68 | 75 |
| Parents | 57 | 68 |
| Friends' problems | 52 | 64 |
| Boy-girl relationships | 48 | 64 |
| Drugs in neighborhood | 48 | 60 |
| Nosy neighbors | 40 | 57 |
| Pressure to fight | 40 | 37 |
| Teacher respect | 40 | 48 |
| Younger siblings | 40 | 63 |
| Litter in neighborhood | 37 | 48 |
| Pressure from within to have sex | 32 | 20 |
| Opposite sex issues | 32 | 43 |
| Pressure from friends to have sex | 32 | 23 |
| School | 31 | 16 |
| Older siblings | 28 | 28 |
| Body changes | 26 | 48 |
Figure 1. Percentage of teens who reported experiencing or worrying about different sources of stress, Shifting the Lens study.
| Type of Coping Strategy | Percentage of Teens | |
|---|---|---|
| Males | Females | |
| Active | 33.3 | 44.4 |
| Support seeking | 17.2 | 22.2 |
| Distraction | 25.3 | 13.5 |
| Avoidance | 24.3 | 19.9 |
Figure 3. Percentage of teens reporting use of coping strategies, by sex, Shifting the Lens study.
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