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		</div><p>Self-control is good right? Especially if it helps you stop yourself from eating that last cupcake. Or on a more serious matter, if it helps you shake off the shackles of poverty and deprivation through sheer determination and discipline.</p>
<p>But new research suggests character traits such as self-control and discipline that help you rise up in the world may also take a heavy toll by making you age faster.</p>
<p>Scientists in the US studied a group of 300 rural African-American teenagers as they made the transition to adulthood, looking at markers of low socio-economic status and self-control.</p>
<p>They found that poor participants with high levels of self-control and the ability to focus on long-term goals were less likely to be depressed, take drugs, or show aggression. The downside was that their cells showed signs of accelerated ageing.</p>
<p>Lead researcher Professor Gregory Miller, from Northwestern University, Illinois, said: “Emerging data suggest that for low-income youth, self-control may act as a double-edged sword, facilitating academic success and psychosocial adjustment, while at the same time undermining physical health.</p>
<p>“We find that the psychologically successful adolescents – those with high self-control – have cells that are biologically old, relative to their chronological age. In other words, there seems to be an underlying biological cost to the self-control and the success it enables. This is most evident in the youth from the lowest-income families.”</p>
<p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/image166.jpg"><img src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/image166.jpg" alt="Mental health, strength, humans" width="600" height="750" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-77344" /></a></p>
<p>Writing in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the scientists pointed out that disadvantaged young people had “substantial barriers to overcome” which were especially challenging for African-Americans.</p>
<p>Overcoming these difficulties required a degree of persistence that was “metabolically and behaviourally demanding”. </p>
<p>Exercising a lot of self-control also triggered the release of stress hormones.</p>
<p>“Our findings have conceptual implications for models of resilience and practical implications for interventions aimed at ameliorating social and racial disparities,” Professor Miller added.</p>
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