Life Span Development II School Age and Adolescence

Life Span Development II: School age and Adolescence 3 (2+1)

Lesson 16 : Physical, physiological, psychological changes during puberty

Behavioral Changes with Puberty

Moodiness is part of a broader set of behavioral tendencies in teens that also includes conflict with parents, negative effect and risky behavior, such as violating norms and recklessness etc.

G. Stanley Hall, an early developmental researcher, referred to the full complement of difficult behaviors as the "storm and stress" of adolescence.

Larson and Richards (1994) used a technique called the experience sampling method to gauge adolescents' moods. Participants in their study wore beepers throughout their waking hours. When they were beeped, they made notes about what they were doing, thinking, and feeling at that moment. In the course of a day, adolescents reported more mood disruptions, more feelings of self-consciousness and embarrassment, more extremes of emotion and less happiness than younger children or adults. In addition, their emo­tional reactions to the very same events tended to be more intense than those of other age groups.