report in adolescence

1. Prepared by:
Germaine B. Morales
II-7 BEEd

3. Emotional development continues once
children reach adolescence. In fact, emotions have
often been used to define the period of
adolescence.
For some people, the changes associated
with adolescence conjure up pictures of strong
emotions—a developmental period characterized
as a time when teens become moody and negative.
These images, however, are accurate for only a
minority of adolescents. Most adolescents cope
with the changes in emotionally positive ways.

4. Adolescence has been thought of as a
period of “storm and stress” – a heightened
emotional tension resulting from the
physical and glandular changes that are
taking place.
Growth continues through the early
years of adolescence but at a progressively
slower rate. It takes place on the
completion of the pattern already set at
puberty.

5. Emotional Patterns in
Adolescence
1. Differ in the stimuli that give rise to the emotion.
Stimuli: “being treated like a child”
Childhood: feels happy and enjoy the situation
(Love of parents)
Adolescents: feels irritated especially when this is acted
by the parent in front of his age-mates.
feels angry when it is overdone and
because adolescents seeks independence
during this period.

6. Emotional Patterns in
Adolescence
1. Differ in the stimuli that give rise to the emotion.
Stimuli: “given a chocolate by an age-mate of the
opposite sex”
Childhood: will appreciate the gift with joy but will also
feel envious of what their playmate has.
Adolescents: will appreciate the gift with joy but will give
meaning in the real purpose of the person
who gave the chocolate.
(friendly gift, symbol of love)

7. Emotional Patterns in
Adolescence
2. Differ in the degree of control the individuals exercise
over the expression of their emotions.
Stimuli: “unable to get what they want”
Childhood: cries or have temper tantrums.
Adolescents: sulk or refuse to speak
Stimuli: “treated unfairly”
Childhood: will cry and tell parents what happened.
Adolescents: will sulk or loudly criticize the one who
caused their anger.

8. Emotional Tension
Most adolescents experience
emotional tension/ emotional
instability because they are not yet
prepared or ready on making
adjustments to new patterns of
behavior and new social
expectations.

9. Emotional Tension
Factors causing emotional tension to Adolescents:
- School demands and frustrations
- Drug and alcohol use by peers, family
members
- Sexual images/ Sexual pressure
- Social Pressure/Popularity
- Parental conflict/Changes at home
- Being Bullied

10. Factors causing Emotional
Tension to Adolescents:
School
demands and
frustrations

11. Factors causing Emotional
Tension to Adolescents:
Drug and
alcohol use
by peers,
family
members

12. Factors causing Emotional
Tension to Adolescents:
Sexual
images/
Sexual
pressure

13. Factors causing Emotional
Tension to Adolescents:
Social
Pressure/
Popularity

14. Factors causing Emotional
Tension to Adolescents:
Parental
conflict/
Changes
at home

15. Factors causing Emotional
Tension to Adolescents:
Being
Bullied

16. Expression of Adolescents

17. Expression of Adolescents
Love:
Adolescence love brings out a whole
range of feelings and emotions in an already
turbulent teenager. However, at that age,
the teenager enjoys these feelings and
emotions. The excitement and the drama of
adolescence love is something that no one
forgets, even when they reach adulthood.

18. LOVE

19. Expression of Adolescents
Happiness:
Based on the study of Meliksah Demir, Wayne
State University to understand the relative
contributions of friendship duality and conflict,
friendship network variables, gender and age in
predicting happiness among adolescents. The level of
positive duality (for girls only) and conflict were
significantly associated with happiness. Friendship
variables explained 10% of the variance in happiness
whereas demographic variables did not predict
happiness other than the interaction of the duality
with gender. This study showed that both quantity
and duality were important for adolescent
happiness.

20. Happiness

21. Expression of Adolescents
Curiosity
About sexual matters begins. Teens
begin having new feelings, which are usually
centered around their own bodies, rather
than developing sexual relationships with
the opposite sex. Their sexual curiosity is
often expressed by affection for remote and
desirable people, such as teen idols, rock
band members, and movie stars.

22. CURIOSITY

23. Expression of Adolescents
Anger:
Adolescents express their anger by sulking,
refusing to speak, or loudly criticizing those who
agreed them instead of having temper tantrums.
Enviousness:
Adolescents become envious of those with more
material possessions. While they may not complain
and feel sorry for themselves, as children do, they are
likely to take a part time job to earn money for the
material possessions they crave or even drop out of
school to get these things.

24. Anger and Enviousness

25. Improvement in Emotional Behavior
a. 14 years old
 Often irritable
 Are easily excited
 “explode emotionally”
b. 16 years old
 Don’t believe in worrying

26. Emotional Maturity
Boys and girls are said to have achieved emotional
maturity if they accomplish the following:
1. They do not “blow up” emotionally when others are
present.
2. The individual assesses a situation critically before
responding to it emotionally instead of reacting to it
unthinkingly.
3. Adolescents are stable in their emotional responses
and they do not swing from one emotion or mood to
another.