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decorative star graphic  Adolescence:
Psychosocial Development
- Key Questions -

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1. What is the difference between foreclosure and negative identity?

2. What is the difference between identity diffusion and moratorium?

3. In what ways can society or culture help adolescents form their identities?

4. Why is identity formation especially difficult for minority group adolescents?

5. What factors correlate with parent-adolescent conflict? Why does each lead to disruption?

6. How do peer and friendship groups aid teenagers?

7. What is peer pressure and how does it affect adolescents' behavior?

8. What gender differences in suicidal ideation, parasuicide, and completed suicide exist? What might explain these differences?

9. What do the incidence & prevalence of delinquency tell us about preventing serious crime?

10. How and why do public attitudes about adolescent suicide and adolescent crime differ from the facts?

11. In your experience was your adolescence difficult, dangerous, and self destructive? Why or why not?


Human Growth & Development
Robert C. Gates
 
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