Psychological characteristics of older adolescents

Abstract

The article deals with the psychological characteristics of children of teenage age, the typical problems of this period and adolescence crisis, which some scien­tists believe the most difficult, but contributing to the emergence of severe emo­tional instability. The value of this paper is to examine the theoretical approaches adolescence, as well as its time frame. Significant in this article are the features of the leading activity in adolescence where absorbed by the norms of relationships that receive the most complete expression in socially useful activities. A central neoplasm adolescence is - «a sense of adulthood» - teenage attitude towards him as an adult. This is expressed in the desire to all - adults and peers - treated him not as a little, and as an adult. The paper presents an analysis of the main neoplastic puberty, which is associated with the motivational sphere. The article sets out the views on the importance of communication for the formation of personality. It turned out that the first factor in the development of the adolescent's personality is its own great social activity aimed at acquiring certain patterns and values to build satisfy­ing relationships with adults and friends, finally, himself. The paper studied in detail types of adulthood, such as the imitation of external signs, dressing teen boys on the quality of the men, social maturity, intellectual maturity. Described and justified the range of issues associated with the study of «self-image» as a teenager, that is a holistic view of himself. The image of «I» - a social setting, the individual relationship to itself, which includes three interrelated components: cognitive - self-knowledge, knowledge of their qualities and properties; Emotional - evaluation of these qualities and the associated self-esteem, self-respect, and similar feelings and behavior - that is practical in itself, derived from the first two components) important in the article is to examine the difficulties related to the training and education of young people.

Thus, the article analyzes the adolescence as a difficult period of psychological maturation and sexual child's maturation, an important feature of the personality of a teenager who is - the desire for self-assertion, which is reflected in the views of independence, judgments, decisions, desire to take their place in society (society) and primarily peer environment.