Understanding Emotional Problems Of Adolescents: Insights From Lower Secondary Schools

Abstract

Adolescents are highly emotional individuals. They experience heightened emotionality due to the physical and glandular changes in the body. Therefore, traditionally, this developmental stage is known as ‘storm and stress’. Adolescent’s emotions are unstable, intense, uncontrolled and mostly irrational. They are stubborn by nature and want immediate satisfaction of their needs. They are sympathetic and can be empathized to others. Whether be it, love or hatred, they experience all kinds of emotions at their extreme form. But, with every passing year there is improvement in the emotional behaviour of the adolescents. There can be various reasons of causes of emotional intensity of the adolescents. Due to the changes taking place in the body, the adolescents need to develop habits to adjust to the changing atmosphere. Besides, the certain expectation of the society to behave in a matured way puts them in pressure. Moreover, family tension, academic achievements, school and social environment also causes intense emotional problems. While adolescent emotions are often intense and uncontrolled, there is generally improvement in emotional behaviour with each passing year. Thus, the storm and stress of this period is lessens as early adolescence draws to a close. During this stage of life the adolescents make radical change from disliking the opposite sex members to building new relationships with them. Social insight improves to the most in the secondary level of education.