When students have studied the material in the
chapter, they will be able to answer the following: - Introduction
- What are the major developmental tasks of adolescence?
- How does the environment influence the ways teenagers address the major developmental issues of adolescence?
- How is individual functioning of adolescents related to their earlier developmental history?
- The social world of adolescence: an overview
- What factors influence the level of storm and stress present during adolescence?
- Development of the self
- How does self-concept change from middle childhood to adolescence and from early to late adolescence?
- What individual and group differences are there in the process of identity formation?
- Peer relationships in adolescence
- How are peer relationships related to other areas of development during adolescence?
- How do friendships, peer groups, and romantic relationships change over the course of adolescence?
- How does the influence of peers compare to that of parents during adolescence?
- Family relationships in adolescence
- How do family structure and interaction patterns change during adolescence?
- How do parenting patterns and divorce affect adolescent development?
- Adolescents in the broader world
- What influences do school and work have on adolescent development?
- The coherence of development in adolescence
- How does development in adolescence show coherence?
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