Challenges and Issues among Challenges Flashcards
cited that biological, psychological, and social factors interplay and contribute to create problems that you need to overcome during adolescence
Santrock (2012)
genes, puberty, hormones, and brain development cause challenges that adolescents need to face
Biological or physical factor
One of the most difficult challenges that you encounter
as a teenager is finding a sense of identity and
successful formation of your identity
Psychological
contributes to the
emergence of an adolescent and these factors
include the family, peers, school, socioeconomic
status, and immediate environment.
Social factors
Pitfalls and Challenges:
- physical appearance
- identity development
- gender identity
Type of pitfalls and challenges where self-consciousness about looks often begins with puberty
Physical Appearance
Type of pitfalls and challenges where the complex process
by which people
come to develop a
sense and
understanding
themselves.
Identity development
Type of pitfalls and challenges where Personal
conception of
oneself as male or
female (or rarely,
both or neither)
Gender identity
Reproductive characteristics start
getting emphasized during puberty.
Sexual behavior
responsible for
hormones
Endocrine system
a person wants
to inflict harm to other
people, through physical and
psychological means.
Anti-social
criminal behaviour,
especially that carried out by a
juvenile.
Delinquency