ISSUES RELATED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF ADOLESCENCE

ISSUES   RELATED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF ADOLESCENCE                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

    Adolescence is a traditional period including many biological, psychological, mental, and social developments and changes. This period of struggle and indecisive- changes their emotion and interests. As a result, they – between careless, limitless and unbalanced -.. The resulting tension makes adolescencents depressed and lonely.

They are a number of problems facing our adolescence generation. They are,

1 SOCIAL PROBLEM

         Adolescents feel social problems in their social life.  Some of them are given below.

v Anticipated unemployment and related   insecurity.

v Unreasonable hatred towards another.

v In   intimacy with brothers ,sisters or friends.

v Unusually vulnerable and volatile relations with relatives.

v Identity crisis.

v Isolation.

2 EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS

The educational problems of adolescents are many

v Tension of attending the classes   , examination.

v Low IQ feeling.

v Feel about failure in the examinations.

v Fear about low score.

v Fears and concern about a future careers.

v Misconception about teachers.

v Difficulty in following rigid schedule.

3      PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS

       Psychological problems are very acute. Let us see the major psychological problems

v Inferiority or superiority complex about skin, colour,beauty, and mental ability and IQ.

v Wrong and realistic ideologies about friendship and courtship.

v Inexplicable perceptions about dress and fashion codes.

v Depression.

v Vulnerability to suicide tendency.

4        PEER PRESURE

Peer pressure is the influence a peer group has on its members to fit into a particular way of thinking and behaving .The causes of they are

v Fear of loneliness.

v Desire for acceptance.

v Poor stress management.

v Poor decision making skills.

v To avoid the risk of bullying.

v Culture and environment.

5 CHANGING FAMILY STRUCTURE

Major causes of changing family structures are

v Divorce   , remarriage.

v Family instability and parental conflict.

v Socio economic condition.

v Multiple transitions.

6 INFORMATION OVERLOAD

One of the dominant traits of an e-society in its abundance of easily accessible information which frequently leads to an over abundance that can be labelled as information overloaded. . Major causes of they are

v Limitations in the individual human information processing capacity.

v Decision, scope and resulting documentation needs.

v Motivation, attitude, satisfaction.

v Social communication barrier.

7 LONLINESS

Loneliness is a subjective state mind which is both complex and unique to each individual.The major causes of loneliness are

v A general deficit in social skills.

v Deficit family relationshionship.

v Poor social relationships and lack of friendship.

v Low socio-economic status.

v Adverse school environment, aggressive and anti social behaviour.

v More potential pressure.

v Focusing more problems.

v Introversion   during adolescence.

v Psychological disorder.

v Physical violation or moving to a new location.

8 DEPRESSIONS AND SUICIDE

     The incidence of depression in children increases with age. The younger the child, lower in the incidence of depression. Major causes of they are

v Transaction taking place during adolescence.

v Hereditary and early –

v Dynamic and reciprocal interaction of depressive behaviour.

v Prelevence of -                  environment.

                                  In the present scenario all over the world adolescent facing a lot of problems. It is a period of struggle and - changes emotion and interest. During the period of adolescence, individual undergo rather confusing emotions and thoughts. major issues related to the development of adolescence are social problems ,educational problems ,psychological problems, loneliness, depression etc. so we have to work on that.

NARAYANANKUTTY P S

SOCIAL SCIENCE