Adolescent Emotion

• About 80 to 85 percent of
adolescents experience a
relatively happy youth,
marked by mostly good
relationship with both peers
and parents while 15 to 20
percent, experience a
difficult, tumultuous
adolescence marked by
serious emotional or
behaviour problems.
(Schonert-Reichl, 1992).
Reasons why adolescence is a time of
heightened emotional stress

First, it is common for

adolescents to wish to be
with peers instead of at
home, and there is a marked
increase during adolescence
of risky behaviours, such as
unsafe automobile driving,
unprotected sex, and alcohol
and drug use.
Reasons why adolescence is a time of
heightened emotional stress

Second, there are changes in

the kinds of difficulties that
youth with serious
difficulties experience.
Parent-Adolescent Relationship
 • constellation of the
family
• social status of the
family
• age and personal
Factors of family
characteristic of the
environment family members
• quality of the marital
relation
• relationship among the
family members
 • There is an evidence that
conflict between
adolescents and parents,
especially mothers,
increases around the onset
of puberty.
parent-adolescen • Basically an individual loses
t conflict the value of living when
stress, cognitive
immaturity, and lack of
emotional bonding interact
and overwhelm an
individual's ability to cope.
• The quality of the relationship between
parent-adolescent is linked to the quality of
the relation with peers too.
PEER GROUPS
• Adolescence is a time of drifting and sometimes of
breaking away from the family unit.
• Sometimes peer influence is in direct opposition
to the wishes of the parents, resulting in painful
conflict – which reaches its height at about the
ninth grade – as parents attempt to reassert their
authority (Lahey, 1995).
• Friendship shows development during
adolescence especially as the need for negotiation
and discourse evolve in the service of cooperation
Our emotions need to be
as educated as our
intellect. It is important
to know how to feel,
how to respond and how
to let life in so that it can
touch you.
-- Anonymous