Prepared by:

Germaine B. Morales

II-7 BEEd

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

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.

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

Factors causing Emotional Tension to Adolescents:

School demands and frustrations

Drug and alcohol use by peers,

family members

Factors causing Emotional Tension to Adolescents:

Sexual images/ Sexual

pressure

Factors causing Emotional Tension to Adolescents:

Social Pressure/

Popularity

Factors causing Emotional Tension to Adolescents:

Parental conflict/

Changes at home

Factors causing Emotional Tension to Adolescents:

Being Bullied

Factors causing Emotional Tension to Adolescents:

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.

Expression of Adolescents

LOVE

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.

Expression of Adolescents

Happiness

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.

Expression of Adolescents

CURIOSITY

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.

Expression of Adolescents

Anger and Enviousness

Improvement in Emotional Behavior

a. 14 years old Often irritable Are easily excited “explode emotionally”

b. 16 years old Don’t believe in worrying

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.

Emotional Maturity