What is Adolescence?

Here, let’s discuss, “What is Adolescence?”, What are the children’s behaviour when they are reaching the age of adolescence?

With puberty, there is a change in social attitudes, a decline in interest in group activities, and a tendency to prefer solitude. This stage may rightly be called the antisocial stage or a period of disequilibrium. There is noticeable individual difference in the age of sexual maturing, and as such, it is difficult to state the characteristic age-specific changes. Children develop a definite self-concept, a set of social attitudes that vary positively and negatively. There is a decrease in sociability, cooperativeness, generosity, popularity, etc. There is an antagonistic attitude towards everyone. Social insight disappears abruptly. There is more of daydreaming. High-sex antagonism, withdrawal from the group, resistance to authority, and lack of proper communication with teachers and others are necessary for social development.

These things again change positively; once children enter adulthood and pass away from puberty and adolescence. Early maturity brings with it exaggerated forms of antisocial behavior. The child becomes overtly aggressive, demanding attention and privileges, rebelling against authority, quarreling type, argumentative, and hypersensitive. But gradually, with the emergence of adulthood, such behavioral characteristics will replace by positive and stable forms of behavior. However, it all depends upon how the individual child passes through the stages of socialization.