Hai all...here is the last copy-paste from my ppt on 'Life Skills-Understanding Adolescence!'...read previous posts before reading this...
High emotionality, instability-due adaptations to high social pressures, new conditions, no training to face, new patterns of behaviour, new social expectations.
Adolescent emotions are intense, uncontrolled, seemingly irrational, irritable, easily excited and explode, don’t know how to control feelings,
Express anger by sulking, refusing to speak, loudly criticising those who angered them.
Get envious with those with more material possessions.
Might drop out of school to get material possessions.
Happy when romance going well, frustrated when goes wrong.
worries about academics and future - from IX to joining job…
Stressful social adjustments-they have to change/form relationships with opp. Sex ‘that never existed before’-a challenge because influence of peer group, changes in social behaviour, new social groupings, new values in friendship selection, social acceptance / rejection, selection of their leaders.
Peers have great influence on attitudes, speech, interests, appearance, dressing due ‘peers acceptance need’.
Join with peer group experiments in alcohol, drugs, tobacco, sex
Slowly peer group influence goes off-1. search for individual identity 2. tendency to narrow down friendships to small numbers.
Prefer relationships with opp. Sex. At its peak during high school years.
Social insight improves. Able to judge people better. Better adjustments in social situations and quarrel less.
Social insight improves. Able to judge people better. Better adjustments in social situations and quarrel less.
Greater the social participation(dance, conversations, sports, games, parties), greater the social competency.
An oppurtunity to learn how to behave correctly in different social situations.
Self confidence is expressed in poise and ease in social situations.
Gangs of childhood gradually break up. Interests change from strenuous plays of childhood to less strenuous and more formal social activities. So, new social groups formed.
Social groups of boys larger and loosely knit.
Social groups of girls smaller and more sharply defined.
Popular social groups:
1. close friends/confidents – same sex, age, interests, abilities, highly influential, quarrel some times
2. cliques-groups of close friends of both sexes
3. crowds-cliques and groups of close friends.
4. Organised groups-adult directed youth groups formed by schools and community organisations to meet the social needs of those who do not belong to any cliques or crowds. Many come out by sixteen.
5. gangs-those who gain little satisfaction from organised groups may join a gang-main interest to compensate for peer rejection through anti social behaviour.
2. cliques-groups of close friends of both sexes
3. crowds-cliques and groups of close friends.
4. Organised groups-adult directed youth groups formed by schools and community organisations to meet the social needs of those who do not belong to any cliques or crowds. Many come out by sixteen.
5. gangs-those who gain little satisfaction from organised groups may join a gang-main interest to compensate for peer rejection through anti social behaviour.
All these arise because they want ‘some one to be trusted, some to talk to, some one who is dependable’….and parents are not!!!
So, friendships change from childhood to adolescence to opp. Sex.
Friendships change at every age due change of interests.
Adolescents do not like adult interference in selection of friends.
Due to less experience with opp. Sex, they choose friends who turn out to be less congenial than they had thought, quarrel and break up.
Unrealistic concerning the standards they set up for their friends, feel critical of expectations not met, try to reform them, quarrels, break ups.
Social acceptance-have new values for acceptance. Depend on peer group values. They soon discover that ‘they are judged by the same standards by which they judge others’
No one trait or characteristic pattern of behaviour will guarantee social acceptance. Acceptance depends upon a constellation of traits and behaviour patterns.
No one trait or behaviour pattern alienates from their peers. There is a grouping of traits that makes others dislike and reject them.
Interests are different-recreational interests, social interests, personal interests, educational interests, vocational interests, religious interests, interest in status symbols.
That is all...here ends the behaviours of adolescents...
peacefully yours...rams...health psychologist.
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