Adolescent Stressors

Essay # 11166

Child, Youth Issues > Teen, Adult Issues
Psychology > Child and Adolescent

Looks at the stress factors that teenagers have to combat daily.

1,300 words () | 3 sources | APA | 2000 Canada

Paper Summary:

This paper examines the daily stress factors that teenagers face and how this effects their everyday behavior. A few of these include developing a healthy body image, encountering drugs and alcohol, and combating suicide. This paper looks at these stressors, and concentrates more thoroughly on suicide.

From the Paper:

"A very crucial process in growing up is the development of a healthy body image. Unfortunately, it is a process that many adolescents struggle with. Body Image is defined as "a person's mental concept of his or her physical appearance" (Berger, 1998.) Very few individuals are satisfied with their body image during adolescence. This negative view of themselves is contributed to by the media, their family and their peers. The media plays a large role in creating the image of the super model body type. In reality this body type is extremely unrealistic, however many teens endlessly compare themselves to the brush stroked magazine models. Adolescents also internalize comments made by their family during puberty when often their bodies can be disproportionate. The acceptance by peers is a very important and influential factor in adolescent life, and generally those individuals deemed to be more attractive are also more popular. Consequently, adolescents' attempts to obtain the super model body type, please their parents, and be accepted by peers, can result in increased stress over their body image (Berger, 1998)."