Emotional changes and development in adolescence

Emotional changes and development in adolescence

Basically human beings are creatures of feeling or emotion. Our emotion controls our behavior. Adolescence is marked by heightened emotionality, therefore it has been thought of as a period of storm and stress. In fact adolescent boys and girls come under social pressure and face new conditions. The major emotional changes normally occur are as under:

i) Toleration of loneliness: The adolescent develop a feeling of loneliness.

ii) Bearing of tension: the adolescent feels a kind of inner freedom and freedom to feel and experience, which develop competencies to bear the tensions in different social situations.

iii) Emotional feelings are widened: Adolescent starts taking account of past and imagines of future. He/she starts appreciating elder and younger people, and emotionally attach them with a hero of his/her choice.

iv) Realism in emotional experiences: The adolescent enters the period of reality. Now he/she perceives and appreciates people around him/her.

v) Loyalties expand: the adolescents now start to feel their loyalties towards home, community and various other fields.

Besides these, the adolescents develop the capacity of sharing emotion, and reviewing of hopes. The adolescents express their anger by sulking, refusing to speak, or loudly criticizing those who anger them.