Major Aspects Of Adolescent Egocentrism

During puberty adolescents exhibit a strong sense of self-important thinking. In this stage of development, teenagers begin to focus their thoughts and actions around themselves due to the fact that their still maturing brains enhances self-consciousness. In this stage of development, adolescents are very egocentric so due to this, teenagers face many obstacles during. The two major aspects of adolescent egocentrism are the invincibility fable imaginary audience fable. Together these fables are described as adolescents thinking strongly about themselves as well as about what others think of them.
The invincibility fable is an egocentric perception which adolescents feel invulnerable to any harm or danger presented to them. Because many believe that no harm will come their way, they often tend to participate in very precarious activities. There are a lot of dangers associated with adolescent invincibility fable. Teenagers often make poor decisions such as experimenting with drugs which could lead to addiction or an overdose, unprotected sex which could lead to pregnancy or a STD/STI, and reckless driving habits which include drinking and driving or texting and driving. …show more content…
Because many adolescents express the imaginary audience fable, they tend to be very self-conscious. Potential risks deriving from adolescent imaginary audience fable is an extreme or very low self-confidents. Imaginary audience could cause some adolescents to have high confidents and always bringing attention to themselves or it could have the opposite effect making a teenager feel as though they are being negatively judged by