Title: Psychological Development in Adolescents | Psychology
Headings: Psychological Development in Adolescents | Psychology
Psychological Development in Adolescents | Psychology
1. Shifts in Group Belongingness or Identification:
2. Conflicts in Motivation:
3. Cognitive Differentiation:
4. Intensification of Self-Awareness:
5. Perplexity in Regard to Bodily Appearance and Functions:
6. Modifications of Time and Reality Perspective:

Content: They do not know when they should behave and be treated as adults and when they should continue as children. When they desire to behave like adults, they lack understanding of the adult world they are entering. Particularly if youth have been excluded from surrounding adult worlds, they are in the dark concerning them. They have little idea of consequences of various kinds of adult behaviour. Thus, broadening of life spaces to include both childhood and adult roles brings with it ambiguous situations which they often are ill-equipped to handle. These conflicts and inadequacies in motivation lead adults to feel that adolescents manifest inadequate appreciation of values, emotional instabilities, tendencies to take extreme positions, and from time to time, undue shyness and aggressiveness. Adolescents are magnified by the basic nature of the society within which they find themselves. What they learn from books, as well as adult precepts about what they should accomplish, is laden with contradictions. A youth is urged to develop the habit of doing free reading at home; simultaneously he goes home from school loaded with busy work to be done.