- Interest in Appearance:
Interest in appearance covers not only clothes but personal adornment, grooming, attractive and sex-appropriate physical features. According to Adolescents, “Beauty and physical attractiveness are of great practical importance for human beings. Social acceptance, popularity, mate selection and careers are all affected by an individual’s physical attractiveness”.
- Interest in Achievements:
Achievements bring personal satisfaction as well as social recognition. That is why achievements, whether in sports, school work, or social activities become such a strong interest as adolescence progress.
If their peers are interested in academic success, for example, good grades will be a satisfactory achievement. If, on the other hand, little prestige is associated with good grades and much prestige with athletic success, academic achievements will bring little satisfaction to the adolescent. Adolescents tend to aspire unrealistically high. Therefore they often do not get the satisfaction from their achievements that they would bet if their aspirations were more realistic. When they fail to reach their goals, their achievements bring them little satisfaction.
- Interest in Independence:
A strong desire for independence develops in early adolescence and reaches a peak as this period. This leads to many clashes with parents and other adults in authority. Much of the radicalism of young adolescents can be traced to their attempts to think and act independently.
- Interest in Money:
Every adolescent sooner or later discovers that money is the key to independence. As long as parents pay their bills and give them spending money, parents can control adolescents’ behavior. When, on the other hand, adolescents have money they have earned themselves, they can enjoy independence. Interest in money therefore becomes an important element in independence. This interest centers mainly on how to earn the most money possible, regardless of the kind of work done.
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