Adolescence

“In·flu·ence, the capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behavior of someone or something, or the effect itself” (Dictionary). In society people are influenced every day by their peers, family, and the media, they use the influence of others to shape their personalities and help make them grow as a person. People are influenced everyday by many different things, this combines with how people grow us a person. The theme of kinship and how it influences others is found in the…

A lot of parents in the world lack certain traits good parents have because their own parents may have inflicted poor parenting skills upon them throughout their own childhood, such as emotional, verbal, and physical abuse, which are all things that can be avoided and improved upon to make the relationship between parents and their children better. Have you ever made an opinion about something to your parents and they responded in a way that degraded you? This is just the bare minimum of what a…

development to cover all of life’s stages. Although his life span development theory is well known and acknowledged today, there are many life factors that cause his theory to apply differently to specific individuals or populations. Beginning with adolescence and continuing through late adulthood, this paper will discuss several populations that are impacted by various factors, all of which may have a great impact on the successful resolution of each stage. Identity vs. Role Confusion…

Growth and Development Collage Writing Portion Psychoanalyst, Erik Erikson, established eight stages of psychological development. In each stage there is a basic conflict or need that should be resolved, so an individual won’t struggle with the same conflict later in life. For adolescents, they have a conflict of their identity and role in life, which may cause confusion. Adolescents tend to make choices about occupation, sexual orientation, lifestyle, and adult role to learn about their…

Interestingly, in the past years, there were reports of survivors that reported losing a friend or non-immediate family member; still mental health outcomes were significant. Overall, the major risk of adolescent survivors was psychological issues like depression, substance use, and alcohol abuse even after controlling for exposure to other violent events. Unfortunate, these risks lend support to the growing literature on the uniqueness of homicide survivorship (Rheingold et al., 2012).…

Much too often, the role of a father in the life of his child is downplayed and underemphasized by society. In times past, mothers have been regarded by most of society as the primary parent in nearly every facet, whether it pertains to the child’s academic performance to medical care to emotional wellbeing. The widely held sentiment has been that the mother’s role is more important than that of the father’s when it pertains to child rearing. Although this belief may be true for a fraction of…

In the Novel, The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton expressed the temptations, peer pressure, and the unknown circumstances young teens face in everyday life. Hinton uses the character, Ponyboy, to represent the teens. Drugs, fights, class division, and a broken home are just a few realistic situations Hinton uses to give an honest account of teenage struggles. Unfortunately, because of her raw honesty, many critics have seen the story as a problem novel. For example, one critic believes that the story is…

There is selection bias in this study because it is solely based on African American teenaged mothers and only one participating high school. The sampling frame for the comparison group was selected from data for all Women in the state who matched a participant for demographic information on their birth certificate such as the date of birth of the Mother, the date of birth for the child and the race and ethnicity. They also could not live in the two different zip codes that constituted the…

made fun of for anything. Children get made fun of because of their size, shape, and beauty substantially. In the article, “Social Comparison and Body Image in Adolescence: a grounded theory approach”, the authors mentioned, “Asking adolescents not to compare themselves to one another is unlikely to be successful. During adolescence, a challenging phase of maturation, social comparison provides a means of gathering information about the social world. Adolescents need to develop a sense of…

Careless Actions and Great Satisfaction: Figurative Language in “The Terrible Teens” “Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader – not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon”. This quote by E.L. Doctorow demonstrates the effect of enhancements in writing through the use of a metaphor. Throughout Elizabeth Kolbert’s “The Terrible Teens”, methods of development and rhetorical devices are prominently used as a way to successfully support the main idea of…