Students valued academic success politeness and honesty but not so much health and tolerance.
Teenagers gave high ranks to knowledge friends and honesty and lower ranks to a high position
in society and wealth. The students' self-evaluations were in good correlation with PISA 2006
results. Positive experiences of upbringing were related to a lower risk of using intoxicants
in Estonia Finland and Russia. Teenagers' behaviour was assessed as relatively wilder but also
more honest than adults' behaviour. A review of bullying revealed the relationship between
educational practice and science. The analysis of early sexual initiation showed some factors
of for example greater tolerance of commercial sex in society. A study of Estonian teenagers'
time usage indicated differences by gender grade and region. Students reported positive
academic emotions such as enjoyment hope pride etc. more often in lower grades.
