Researchers could not fully justify the relation, but young goths appear more likely to suffer from depression or to self-harm.
As part of a new study, participants were asked whether or not they identified with a number of youth subcultures – including “sportys”, “populars”, “skaters”, “chavs”, “loners”, “keeners” – those who work hard in school, and “bimbos”. The research, based on surveys from 3,694 British teens, found that 15-years-olds passionate about the goth subculture were three times more likely to be diagnosed with clinical depression and five times more likely to self-harm by the age of 18.
Goths and Depression
“Our study does not show that being a goth causes depression or self-harm, but rather that some young goths are more vulnerable to developing these conditions,” stated lead author Dr. Lucy Bowes from the University of Oxford. Goths and members of other subcultures, for example, are more likely to experience discrimination and become victims of hate crimes.
Teen to adult transition
So, what happens when a teenage goth grows up? Dr Paul Hodkinson, deputy head of Surrey University’s sociology department and an expert in youth music subcultures, has been attempting to answer this question by re-interviewing a group of goths he first studied in the late 1990s.
According to his findings, older goths are more likely to stick to their subculture, as opposed to most people who tend to drift away in their 20s, The Guardian reported. To outsiders, the goth appearance is what makes individuals stand out: long, dyed-black hair, black clothes, a pale face, and dramatic eye make-up. However, something much deeper also binds goths together. Their social lives are so intertwined with the scene that it “would feel very odd to leave it,” Hodkinson says.
The Gothic Movement for dummies
The first generation of the gothic movement appears to have emerged mostly in the UK in the late seventies and early eighties as a fragment from the punk movement. As of today, there is still a great deal of uncertainty about who coined the term “goths” but it refers to the Victorian-related definition of gothic. Today, the Gothic movement continues to change, grow, and adapt, making it one of the longest surviving youth subcultures in existence, experts believe.
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