CONFLICT DURING ADOLECENCE
G. Stanley Hall suggested that adolescence is a time of storm and stress during which the child must experience the turbulent history of the human race in order to reach maturity
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- CONFLICT DURING ADOLECENCE G. Stanley Hall suggested that adolescence is a time of storm and stress during which the child must experience the turbulent history of the human race in order to reach maturity
- ERIKSONS THEORY OF PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
- Between ages of 13-18 years you go through the crisis of identity vs role confusion, which causes a psychosocial moratorium, if the crisis is not resolved it can turn in to a negative identity
- Stress uncertain, a negative identity is better than no identity
- supported by SMITH & CARWFORD 1980 over 60 % of students had at least one incident of suicidal feeling
- LARSON boys 12-13 less positive emotion to parents, girls same at 14-15
- EVALUATION
- Gender biased -males
- observation of emotional disturbed adolescence so can't generalise
- Cultural bias - western phenomena
- LARSON & LAMPMAN - PETRATIS American 9-15 and assessed emotional states hour by hour basis and concluded that onset of adolecenece was not associated with increased emotionality
- Between ages of 13-18 years you go through the crisis of identity vs role confusion, which causes a psychosocial moratorium, if the crisis is not resolved it can turn in to a negative identity
- COLEMAN'S FOCAL THEORY
- Claims that adolescence are able to cope with stressful changes by dealing with one issue at time
- Adolescents that lack; social support, living in poverty, dysfunctional parent, are more likely to find it difficult to cope.
- Those who experience violence, abuse, or racial harassment are more likely to also find difficulties
- Many if not most adolescents experience few difficulties and these would not always be described as crises therefore there is no reason to suppose that adolescence is necessarily a time of storm and stress
- BLOSS ADOLESCENT RELATIONSHIPS
- arguments with parents are to assert their indivuality, rebellion is an important ego defence
- STEINBERG & STEINBERG found that as autonomy increased so did peer dependence and strongest between 11-13
- Those who are particularly dependent on peers may be trying to overcompensate for lack of emotional support
- American- culture bias
- WADE & TRAVIS said the Blos's separation need was out of date
- APTER studied 65 mother and daughter relationships in Britain and America and found that girls said they were most closest to their mother
- CULTURAL DIFFERENCES
- SHAFFER claimed that in some cultures there is no adolescent period, for example st Lawrence Eskimos just have a moment of change when a child becomes an adult
- MARGRET MEAD children of Samoa had easy passage, sexuality was delt with openly so children didn't face confusion or embarrassment
- FREEMAN claimed mead wasn't involved closely enough and only saw what she wanted to see
- time difference, boys and girls
- time difference, boys and girls
- FREEMAN claimed mead wasn't involved closely enough and only saw what she wanted to see
- ERIKSONS THEORY OF PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
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