EDPY304 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Personal Taste, Generation Gap, Life Matters

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Education - Psychology
• Course: EDPY304
• Professor: Sophie Yohani

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Safety one, but less inclined to accept authority when it is an issue of. Family relationships at adolescence: as they develop, adolescents spend increasingly less time in family activities, especially with the family as a group. The adolescent"s parents at midlife: midlife crisis: a psychological crisis over identity believed to occur between the ages of. 35 and 45, the age range of most adolescents" parents: midlife meets adolescence, developmental concerns of parents and adolescents are complementary. Issue of biological change: adolescent: entering a period of rapid physical growth, sexual maturation, and a period of the most physical attraction, parent: increased concern about their own bodies, their own physical attractiveness, and their sexual appeal. Issue of perceptions of time and the future: adolescent: develop capability to think ahead to the future, parent: possibilities for changing their own lives are limited. Home than when they move out: when children do live home, fathers typically feel the greatest sense of loss.