Adolescenții și factorii de stres

Abstract

Adolescence is a period in which human organism develop rapidly physically and mentally. It is also the age of great searches and dreams, of affirmation and changes. Every adolescent achieves his own identity, learns to make decision and find his professional vocation. This period of development is focused on the search for one’s own values, can be a continuous source of stress, dissatisfaction, many doubts, disappointments and dissolutions. Stress is common phenomenon for different periods of development, but during adolescence because of multiple and different changes in adolescents’ life, stress is experienced and felt more intensely than in order periods of human development. Changes in social, economic and educational spheres conditionate a state of stress at modern adolescents demanding all their resources. Sources of stress for adolescents can be body changes, overloading at school, fear of evaluation, involvement in many activities, high expectations, demands and frustration in different school circumstances, negative thoughts and emotions about themselves, unsafe environment, family problems and difficulties. A high level of stress can generate physical disease, anxiety, different maladaptive behaviours such as: aggression, alcohol or drug consumption, isolation