Problem
Juvenile stress
Other Names:
Adolescent disturbanceYouth anxiety
Nature:
The main characteristics of juvenile distress are: (a) a tendency towards anti-social behaviour, particularly as expressed in acts of unprecedented violence; (b) a revolution in sexual mores encouraging a tendency to promiscuity and perversion; (c) a wave of contagion that makes an obsession out of every new kind of stimulus (hot jazz, hot dancing, hot cars); (d) a leaning towards over-conformity with family and community or with a peer group; (e) an associated trend towards static-mindedness, a loss of adventure and creative spark; (f) a tendency to withdrawal, toward a loss of hope and faith, towards disillusionment and despair with progressive destruction of ideals; (g) a failure on the part of the adolescent to harmonize his goals with those of his family or society; (h) a trend toward disorientation, confusion, fragmentation of personal identity; (i) an increasing vulnerability of the adolescent to mental illness, as a result of aggravated orders of social adaptation.
Broader Problems:
Unhealthy anxietyStress among childrenDisorientation of youth in a culturally turbulent environmentAdverse childhood experiences Aggravates:
Apathy of youthJuvenile suicideIdle youth lifestyleJuvenile delinquencyReading disabilitiesLearning distractionsDisobedience of eldersMental illness in childrenExploitation of the elderly References:
Garbarino, James, et al: Troubled Youth, Troubled Families: understanding families at-risk for adolescent maltreatmentVarma, Ved P: Anxiety in ChildrenIrwin, Edna M: Growing Pains: a study of teenage distressSpielberger, Chas D, et al: Stress and Anxiety Subject(s):
Psychology → StressSociety → Adolescents
Society → Youth
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
D: Detailed problems Date of last update
04.10.2020 – 22:48 CEST