Editorial - On the Road to Adulthood

• Authors: Gurba Ewa , Senejko Alicja
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Although the picture of adolescence G. Stanley Hall (1904) drew over a hundred years ago is no longer accepted, most contemporary researchers agree that the period between childhood and adulthood poses a serious challenge to the developing individual. The developmental achievements typical of this age, such as radical changes in appearance and behaviour, severe criticism of existing reality brought about by the recent acquisition of formal thinking, first intimate relations and sexual experiences and the various forms of social pressure connected with the new, age-related demands and expectations can often lead to emotional instability, disturbed parent-child relations and a propensity for risky behaviour (Arnett, 1997). These are the phenomena that accompany the struggle of a young person in the process of self-discovery and self-determination.

Keywords

EN

ADULTHOOD - ROAD TO

Discipline

• PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGY

• Publisher: Committee for Psychological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Polish Psychological Bulletin
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 39
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 108-110
• Physical description: 10.2478/v10059-008-0031-6
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Gurba Ewa

author

Senejko Alicja

• Ewa Gurba, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Instytut Psychologii, ul. Golebia 13, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA07109