The three ages that are in the title of this section constitute, in essence, the entire conscious life of a person. Let's take a quick look at them, identify the most significant features of these important stages, among which maturity is the longest, it covers the lion's share of the time allotted to us.

Youth not so much time is allotted - from 14 to 20-22 years. This is a transitional period from dependent childhood to responsible and independent adulthood. The features of childhood and maturity often fuse in the period of adolescence, making up an intricate amalgam, for example, when 18-year-old fathers and mothers nurse their children, while they themselves are still in the status of students and are completely in the care of their parents. In many primitive societies, youth as a special socio-cultural period does not exist at all, because to adulthood people pass through the ritual of initiations and, having passed the tests, radically change their “age quality” within a few days.

Youth is a time when a person, on the one hand, is looking for his “reference group”, those people with whom he identifies himself, and on the other hand, he tries to find his own face, to understand, “Who am I?” In adolescence and youth, the discovery of one's inner world takes place - for the first time a person turns to himself, he begins to be occupied with the states of his own soul, he understands that he is unique, inimitable, different from everyone else. True, in early youth this difference in a purely external expression is not always joyful: a young person changes bodily, sometimes becomes disproportionate, his skin deteriorates, his facial features “float” and change: it’s time to tell him a fairy tale about the “ugly duckling”, which then will certainly become a swan. But the “swan time” has not yet arrived, and young men who are experiencing a discord between the external and the internal often experience a feeling of loneliness: no one understands me!

In youth, there is an awareness of the upcoming time perspective, and the question begins to worry, what is it, my future? The child does not think about the future, he lives for today and does not plan anything longer than a week ahead. In youth, long-term life plans arise related to the choice of a profession, earnings, and the creation of a family. Of course, when adults ask a small child “Who will you be when you grow up?” - and they often ask such questions - children answer them what they want to hear, but in youth we do not expect such questions from elders, but ask them ourselves .

In addition, youth often not only plans a banal everyday future, but dreams of its greatness, exploits, adventures and discoveries. This is undoubtedly a contradictory position, but nothing can be done about it: sound plans and dreams go hand in hand here, and without the ambitious fantasies of youth, not a single successful career could take place.

Since a young person often quickly enters the "adult world", the degree of his responsibility rises sharply. By the way, during periods of difficult trials, for example, wars, children grow up much earlier, because they begin to bear full responsibility for their lives and the lives of their loved ones.

Youth is a deeply philosophical age. Children, as a rule, are not very interested in philosophical questions, if the elders do not push them to this, but already in adolescence one begins to ask oneself: “Is there really a God? Where was my I before I was born, did it really not exist at all? Does humanity have a higher purpose? In youth, a person discovers for himself that he is mortal, that death will be his destiny as well as for all other people, and does not want to come to terms with this. Young people often play with death, flaunt before it, wanting to prove: “I am stronger than you, bony!” Youth is looking for the meaning of life - their own and generally human. But the answer to this question of youth is what happens to a person later - years and fate give everyone their answer.

Mature age extends from 22 to 65-70 years, where the time after 60 is called "old age", and the most active and active mature years are called "akme". In maturity, a person is actively and comprehensively involved in social life: he works, creates a family and raises children, is engaged in public affairs, is fond of creativity, has various “hobbies”. During the acme period, people establish diverse connections with the world, make friends and love, get maximum impressions, and fully realize their abilities. This is the time when a person is maximally adapted to the world, independent and has all the rights.

Maturity is distinguished by the formed, formed image of the Self. In childhood, a person is busy with the outside world, in his youth he only searches for himself, and in maturity he, as a rule, has already “found himself” - he knows his pluses and minuses, does not rush about from longing to delight in about his own person, he knows how to calm himself and, if necessary, stimulate him to activity - he has a high level of self-regulation.

Maturity is a pragmatic age. Now a person must provide for himself and his family, take care of children, and, possibly, grandchildren, help elderly parents, so he actively sets practical goals, realizes them, fights for good material conditions, shows ingenuity in matters of arranging the economy and building a successful career. Romantic dreams and illusions are abandoned in youth, life has switched to a utilitarian track: an adult already knows the prohibitions that society puts before him, and is not inclined to add mystery to either a fleeting smile, or vague words, or a moon in the sky, or a beautiful melody.

The emotionality of a mature person is usually reduced compared to youth, but logical abilities are manifested and sharpened, erudition is wide, and professional skills have been developed. Mature people partly lose the ability to play. I mean the children's game, valuable and disinterested in itself, which is played solely for the sake of pleasure. On the other hand, gambling, which has the possibility of winning, is quite inherent in maturity. Art at this time also fades into the background - to art galleries and theaters for a person who is wrapped up in work and home sometimes simply do not have enough time.

Maturity is the most unphilosophical age. People have no time to think about the fate of the universe, they are too captured by relationships with it. A mature person also remembers little about death - only when it is necessary to bury deceased relatives, but even then organizational chores and legal formalities come to the fore.

I would not, of course, want readers to think that any mature person is such a cold utilitarian monster. All people are different, and many retain throughout their adult lives best features childhood and youth: there are eternal dreamers, eternal philosophers, eternal storytellers, we only single out and describe those character traits which time and circumstances communicate to a person in the course of his personal temporal history.

It is worth noting that, living his mature period, after forty years of commercials, a person often begins to get bored and see reality in gray colors. The environment became familiar to him, and he no longer expects any bright positive impressions from fate. Psychotherapists recommend in this case to meditate a little - to remember some beautiful bright day of your youth or childhood and how to live it again. This renews perception and helps to notice the beauty and mystery of the universe around you again.

In adulthood - as in any other age - not all people are fully adapted to life. And the point is not only in economic poverty, but also in psychological attitudes. The figure of a neurotic, constrained internally and difficult in external communication, is by no means an invention of psychotherapists. This is a fairly large part of the population of any developed country, where people are always in a hurry, compete for a place at the top of the social pyramid, are afraid of losing their jobs and money, and adhere to selfish positions. Neurotic people feel not understood and not appreciated by the world, they are in a state of constant anxiety, they do not know how to love, they act according to obsessive schemes. Thus, in itself, mature age does not eliminate all problems, although it gives a reasonable and sane person a chance to independently seek and find ways to maximize the harmonization of their lives.

Old age comes after sixty-five and becomes the last stage in which a person continues to exist until death. Old age is the only way to live long; humanity has not yet come up with another way. The main thing that happens in old age is the decay of body functions, the gradual deterioration of health, which leads to inability to work, and a change in appearance.

In the history of mankind, society has treated the elderly in very different ways. In primitive and poor societies, where many children are born, who need to be raised on their feet, and there is not enough money for everyone, the elderly are ballast. Then they are destroyed or they themselves voluntarily part first with their families, and then with their lives. It is this withdrawal from life and from the world that we see in traditional way an Indian sannyasin - the patriarch of a family, who, seeing that he cannot be useful, of his own free will goes into the forest - so as not to interfere with the young.

And in those archaic societies where the experience passed down from generation to generation is especially important, the elderly, on the contrary, are considered as the “golden fund” of the clan or tribe, which must be protected and listened to. So among the majority of mountain peoples, old people are held in high esteem - they know all the secrets of the mountains.

In modern society, the status of an old person depends primarily on his material security. If an old man is weak and poor, he is assessed as having "fallen out of life's races", as an outsider, and his life is most often unenviable. If the old person is rich or simply well-off, then he, on the contrary, can be assessed as “free from the races of life”, as someone who can finally do not earn money, but what he wants to do: draw, write novels, go on trips around the world. If you maintain health in a secure old age, it can bring many more various joys and pleasures, which, perhaps, you did not even have to dream of in your youth.

Old age is characterized by the perfection of fate, embodied in the results of labor. As a rule, by this time a person has already, figuratively speaking, “built a house, planted a tree and gave birth to a son”, that is, he has realized his strengths and abilities in different areas. It evokes calmness and satisfaction, a sense of accomplishment. In addition, experience has been accumulated in a subjective form, which old people seek to pass on to new generations - children and grandchildren. Since in old age a person most often becomes infirm, he moves away from an active professional and social activities. Pension Laws different countries determine the time when citizens retire in different ways, but in most cases, with good health, the elderly can continue to participate in various forms in public life. Great opportunities for self-realization are retained in old age by people of creative professions - writers, artists, theoretical scientists, whose creativity does not depend on a large number of transient conditions.

A very sad experience of old age is the understanding of the narrowing of the time perspective: a really old person understands that he can live another 5-10 years, but hardly longer. Old age does not have that feeling of “endless horizons” that so inspires youth.

Different people experience the state of old age very differently. There can be extremes here. So some old people are passionate about the past, the present does not interest them at all, others, on the contrary, live for today and still make plans; some easily take on their new look, believing that wrinkles and gray hair are normal, they are just signs of age, others strive to keep their youthful appearance without fail, and sometimes they resort to a variety of means - from ordinary gymnastics to cosmetic surgeries. Probably, a wise approach turns out to be the golden mean, in which a person strives not to grow old either in body or soul, but at the same time does not artificially look younger, does not play “like a girl” or “like a boy”, causing laughter from the younger generations. Almost everyone has to get used to diseases as normal, to adapt to drink a lot of medicines and constantly maintain health. Some people find real advantages in the state of old age: it is the ability to understand life, free time, the discovery of the beauty of nature, which manifested itself when the passionate searches of youth were a thing of the past. In old age, people write memoirs, read books, go for walks - do what they previously put off "for later." Old age has only one fundamental minus - it also ends.

Age is considered the second most important demographic characteristic. In demographics age is the period from the birth of a person to a particular moment of his life. Age is measured in years, months (for 1 year), weeks (for the first month of life), days (for the first week) and hours (for the first day).

Demographic events always come at one age or another. At the same time, the frequency of their occurrence changes with age, i.e. is its function. Therefore, in demography, age is used as the most important characteristic of any demographic events. They talk about the age of death (and the average age of the dead), the age of marriage (and the average age of marriage), about the so-called. childbearing age, etc.

In addition, age is a differentiating feature for highlighting age statuses.

Age status (child, adolescent, young man, adult, elderly, etc.) is the position in society that a person occupies depending on age. But, even though age is usually determined based on the date of birth, age status is a broader concept. In addition, in any society age roles are established, or a set of expectations associated with age status. For example, it is assumed that attraction to people of the opposite sex should already appear in adolescents; children aged 5 to 16 are expected to go to school; it is considered that active labor activity of a person lasts from 19 or 20 years (depending on qualification requirements) to 60 years. It is clear that society sets different norms for people belonging to different age categories.

Examples formal age norms are:

- Get married at the age of 18

– buy alcoholic beverages from the age of 18 or 21

- to retire at a certain age

- to be elected president (from the age of 35), etc.

A clear example of formal age norms is the transition of schoolchildren from one class to another in accordance with their age (if their abilities are generally not lower and not higher than the average age level).

Other age norms are less clearly defined; they are among informal. The exact age of graduation from school, marriage, birth of children and the beginning of labor activity is not established. However, our society has developed quite definite ideas about when these events should occur. For example, it is assumed that after graduating from high school (i.e. at the age of about 17) people should immediately look for a job or continue their studies at a college (university). Indeed, research suggests that there are " social clock” or a kind of “schedule” that tells people whether their life is developing according to a generally accepted pattern. They probably feel anxious about falling behind this schedule.

The idea of ​​a "social timetable" is formed under the strong influence of age norms. There is a deep meaning in social stereotypes: if a woman is not married by a certain age (for example, by the age of 30), the need to marry as soon as possible hangs over her so as not to “remain an old maid”. The "slacker" stereotype puts pressure on a man who takes his time to find the right job for himself and start a family. And when we are told: "Behave as it should be at your age" - we all (children, adolescents, adults) feel that we are not keeping up with everyone and must change our situation.

Ideas about age periods conventional and formed quite recently. Now it is customary to single out such stages: infancy, childhood, youth, youth, maturity, old age, old age.

The concept of other stages of the life cycle is "invented" relatively recently. Previously, no special significance was attached to the stage that we call adolescence, and adulthood was not divided into separate stages. It continued until the person could no longer work normally due to illness or senile infirmity. Old age, which in the past meant the inability to work on an equal footing with others, has become universally associated with retirement.

Modern ideas about age periods in a person's life are summarized in Table 4.1.

Table 4.1

Demographic age classification

adulthood- the longest period of ontogenesis. There are three stages of adulthood:

• early adulthood (youth - from 20-23 to 30 years old)
• middle adulthood (maturity - from 30 to 60-70 years old)
• late adulthood (old age - after 60-70 years)

Signs of adulthood(according to G. Kraig):

• new development, less associated with physical growth and rapid cognitive improvement;
• the ability to respond to changes and successfully adapt to new conditions, positively resolve contradictions and difficulties;
• overcoming addiction and the ability to take responsibility;
• some traits (hardness, reliability, honesty, etc.)
• social and cultural guidelines (roles, relationships, etc.) to determine the success and timeliness of development in adulthood.

Youth(from 20-23 to 30 years) - approximately this is the period of life from the end of adolescence to 30 years. Youth is the time to create a family. This age is characterized by an optimal combination of psychological, physiological, social and other factors that favor the choice of a life partner and the creation of a family. This is the time when a woman's body is best adapted for the birth of her first child. Youth can be considered an age sensitive to the creation of a family. From how it's shaping up family life, largely depends on the general - his spiritual growth, development.

The choice of a life partner and the creation of a family is one of the aspects of the social situation of development in youth. The second side of the social situation of development is the mastery of the chosen profession.

The central age-related neoplasms of youth can be considered family relationships and a sense of professional competence.

Friendship and love in this period reach a new qualitative level. Friendship, unlike simple friendships, involves one or another spiritual intimacy.

The main aspects of life in youth develop differently and have different content in different lines of ontogeny.

With a selfish orientation of a person, a selfish motive (material wealth, prestige, power, etc.) dominates in creating a family. A profession, as a rule, is not a value in itself, but acts as a means of realizing this selfish. Due to the lack of deep interest in one's work, manifestations become impossible.

With the spiritual, moral and essential orientation of the personality, the desire for the essential content of the main aspects of life is manifested. In friendship, for example, it is precisely the consonance of two people, the essence of their relationship, that is decisive.

The crisis of 30 years is called the crisis of the meaning of life, which arises as a result of the unrealized life plan. It is expressed in a change in ideas about one's life, sometimes in a complete loss of interest in what used to be the main thing in it; there is a reassessment of values, entailing introspection and a critical review of one's own personality. The whole crisis marks the transition from youth to maturity.

Maturity (from 30 to 60-70 years) is the longest period of life for most people. Maturity is considered to be the time of the full flowering of the personality, when a person can realize his full potential, achieve the greatest success in all areas of life. The ancient Greeks called this age and state of mind “acme”, which means the top, the highest step.

In the theory of E. Erickson, maturity is the age of "committing deeds", the most complete flowering. The main lines of development are generativity, productivity, creativity (in relation to things, children, ideas) and restlessness - the desire to become a better parent, achieve a high level in one's profession, be an indifferent citizen, a true friend, a support for relatives.

Work and care are the virtues of mature people. In ( , ) central importance was attached to the process of self-actualization of an adult. According to A. Maslow, self-actualizing people are not limited to satisfying elementary needs, but are committed to higher values, including truth, beauty, goodness. They strive to achieve heights in their business.

Early adulthood is characterized by enhanced development of mental functions. Stabilization is observed in the period of 33-35 years. Valuable orientations have a great influence on the preservation of cognitive functions. Setting on improving one's own, searching for information contributes to the development of figurative, practical, verbal-logical thinking.

The most important optimization factors intellectual potential adults are: level of education, type and character professional activity.

Marina Nikitina

Childhood, youth, youth, maturity and old age begin and end differently. But it is worth preliminarily designating some boundaries separating one stage of development from another. Otherwise, it is difficult to figure out which stage is remarkable.

Youth and maturity: where is the beginning, where is the end?

It is customary to separate youth from human maturity according to the level of physical and psychological development. It is believed that adulthood is divided into three stages:

Early (begins at the age of 20-23 years and lasts up to 30 years) - youth.
Medium (lasts from 30 years to 60-70 years) - maturity.
Late (begins after 60-70 years) - old age.

Have you met people who look or act out of their biological age? For example, a girl with a wise, serious outlook on life, or a man with gray hair who got “a demon in the rib”? Such people do not fall into the generalized classification presented above. There are sad cases when one event shocks so much that it adds several years or tens of years of life experience to a person in one day. That is why the boundaries between ages are conditional. Therefore, further, when comparing the qualities of different age life periods, the passport age will not be taken into account.

Youth is the period of a person's life when childhood no longer has power over the mind, physical development finished (body formed). This is the right cut life path to find a life partner, create a family. And also for productive work for the benefit of society, independent thinking, the formation of a worldview, creativity. Although the latter - creativity - is engaged in at any age, however, it is in the young years that creative productivity is great.

Maturity is the longest period of time, which occupies a significant part of the entire life span of each person and is characterized by highest level development of spiritual, emotional, intellectual abilities. As for the spiritual level - a controversial philosophical ambiguous question.

Characteristics of a person's youth

The leading activity in the period up to thirty years becomes professional. The individual has experienced several types of employment, which allowed him to choose the area of ​​​​preferred activity, although this is not always the case.

Also at this age, social maturity sets in, manifested in the formation of moral principles associated with the assessment and acceptance of social norms and rules of behavior that are close to the individual. The social significance is increasing and some life experience is accumulating, it appears.

The sphere of cognition, mental activity is characterized by the peak of its development, increased to the personal maximum limit by the amount of memorized information. The verbal component of memory is quite strongly developed. What is remembered in youth is well preserved in the long-term memory of a person.

In a young individual, unlike youth, more perseverance appears, since the energy is directed towards analytical mental activity. There is an opportunity to fully concentrate your attention on the chosen object, process, conducting your own “mental research”. A person can build logical chains and, adding up life experience with theoretical, dead knowledge, be convinced in practice of the correctness or falsity of judgments previously explained by adults. The synthetic processes of the brain are in a "blooming" state in the period of youth.

Since the period up to thirty years falls on the beginning of the peak of sexual activity, it is not surprising that at the same time auditory, visual sensitivity is aggravated and the center of movement is activated. In the young period, the phenomenon of "age conservation" is noted, which consists in a "frozen" assessment of one's age after thirty years. This means that a person who has reached the age of thirty years begins to evaluate inadequately the number of years he has lived in subsequent periods, namely, he preserves his age at the thirty-year mark. The greater the age, the more years the age is underestimated from the nominal.

Most young people are trying to fit in with the generally accepted in order to fit into the flow of life, at the same time, issues are resolved with the use of a creative component.

A young man who has passed his youth is trying to fit in social norms accepted in society, or justifiably deny them. There is an increase in willpower under favorable conditions for the development of a personality against the background of a clash of interests between an ideal idea of ​​the essence of one's own personality and a real individual.

It is in the period of youth that one observes trying on different social roles. According to psychologists, there is a crisis of youth or identity - a conditional period characterized by the first disappointments and awareness of the finiteness of human life, as well as a discrepancy between the desired and the real state of affairs. As a result, paranoid states, emptiness, dissatisfaction can be observed.

Characteristics of human maturity

According to the chronology of human development, as noted above, maturity is a blurred period of human life, which covers the period from the end of youth to the beginning of old age. With regard to professional activity, in such an important period of life there is a flourishing of activity at work and a rise in career. subject to final becoming, after which change occurs reluctantly and rarely.

In psychological science, it is commonly believed that development in the mature period of life ends, therefore, some have calm satisfaction, while others have depression and sadness in the absence of any realization of personal or professional potential.

Against the background of the past years, the ability to dominate and successfully organize events and the work of people, the team, is increasing, therefore it is the mature, and not the young, who are hired as administrators, directors, and senior managers. And they successfully cope with the tasks assigned to them. An adult person can and wants to build his own value system, consistent with the generally accepted one, and prefers to discuss the nuances of this model if necessary. There is a tendency to abstract philosophical reasoning, which is characteristic of adulthood.

In a mature person, several psychological individuals usually coexist at once, taking on different social roles. The need for such a large “splashing” of personality is dictated by the formed obligations that “keep” a person in their networks. It is quite difficult to break such ties without experiencing attacks from the surprised people around you who are used to this state of affairs.

Youth and maturity: arguments

Arguments in favor of youth:

The difference or discrepancy between the real and “spiritual” age of a person.
The inner world of a young guy or girl is undergoing changes and can be flexible, which is useful for understanding some of the difficult issues of life and forming an unconventional attitude to reality.
You are twenty-five, which means that everything is still ahead. The whole world is still subject to the rhythm of the heartbeat and only choose among an infinite number of possibilities.

Sexual activity of both sexes in excellent condition.
Youth means a refusal to give a damn about responsibility, although the level of this indicator increases with the presence of children. .
The young man runs the risk of listening to his intuition for lack of sufficient life experience, and it turns out to be right.
Not tied to a specific course of action, easy acceptance of change
Following the yet unforgotten rainbow dreams left over from a tender young age.

Arguments in favor of maturity:

A person already knows the price of youth, mistakes and excessive demands.
Stable attitudes, rules that are learned in youth become a kind of unshakable “pillars”, thanks to which a mature individual feels protected in a changing world.
The ability to translate plans into reality is limited by the factor of having children. In addition, there are unpleasant obligations, sick or old relatives, diminished strength (physical and moral).
Sexual function in women continues to be at its peak, while in men it gradually decreases.

Maturity gives the right and at the same time the need to fully and actions. The number of people who have collected a lot of life experience to tell you what to do and not to do is decreasing. Nobody teaches you.
A person wise by life experience for every difficult life situation is able to find a similar one from his memory and predict how the case will end. This helps to maintain peace of mind and.
Refusal of illusions, a sober assessment of life's difficulties and values.
Development of an individual lifestyle, clothing, communication that distinguishes and distinguishes a person from the mass of people and shows him in a favorable light.
There are already memories of the past, testifying to the life experience gained.

After a number of considered features, inherent only in youth, or unambiguously related to maturity, it is difficult to say which is better. Yes, it doesn’t matter, because with any development of events in the outside world, inside everyone there is a struggle or a universal calm reigns, which depends exclusively.

March 29, 2014, 03:49 pm

When thinking about what youth is, romantic songs, poems of poets, dates under the moon, high hopes and unlimited possibilities immediately come to mind. However, this is just the outer shell. Youth is a rather interesting and difficult period for psychologists to study.

What is youth: definition

Adolescence is a stage in the physical maturation of a person, as well as personality development, which lies between childhood and adulthood. From the point of view of psychology, this is a transition from the dependence inherent in a child to the independence and responsibility inherent in mature people. From the point of view of physiology, physical and puberty is completed at this moment. Such a concept as "youth" or "youth" is also characterized by achievement. Age limits are determined by the interval from 14 to 18 years, if we are talking about domestic psychology. Foreign experts believe that youth begins at the age of 16.

Approaches to the problem of youth

Given the need to acquire a profession, young age is accompanied by continuous learning. At the same time, it becomes more profound and conscious than at an earlier age. It is characterized by the following features:

• wide and deep perception educational material aimed at the formation of future professional knowledge;
• in addition to the passive perception of information, the individual resorts to an active and independent search for it.

Social motives of adolescence

Childhood, youth, maturity - each of the periods of a person's life is characterized by certain motives that determine his activity. Young people are full of aspirations and hopes for the future. In this regard, they are guided by the following factors:

• conviction in the need for continuous development, which is achieved through continuing education;
• professional self-determination, caused by the need to prepare for further independent life;
• social motivation caused by the desire to benefit others.

Factors in choosing a future profession

Considering that a young person in his youth must choose a future occupation, psychologists pay great attention to motives. So, the main factors of choice are the following:

• social - prestige and the opportunity to take a worthy place in society;
• personal - the presence of qualities and traits of character necessary for a particular profession;
• material - the opportunity to provide yourself and your family with a decent existence.

Main problems

A mass of life-giving problems characterizes such a period as youth. The years of a young person's life are made up of many key questions, the main of which are the following:

• preselection future profession, which is made up of life position, abilities and priority area of ​​expertise;
• commitment to the values ​​that define public consciousness as well as interpersonal relationships;
• the growth of social activity, which does not consist in a banal interest, but in the desire to take a direct part in events;
• formation of a worldview on fundamental issues;
• expansion of the sphere of interests, as well as vital needs, which leads to the need for more material resources;
• social orientation of the individual, which implies the search for one's place in society;
• search for an answer to the question of the meaning of life and the purpose of a person in it.

Formation of the personality of a young man

At a certain moment, a young person embarks on the path of becoming self-awareness, which is inextricably linked with the formation of the so-called "I". It takes place along the following lines:

• the formation of a different attitude to the emotional sphere (feelings become not just a reaction to external events, but personal characteristics);
• awareness of the irreversible passage of time (this fact makes a young person think more seriously about his future and drawing up an individual life plan);
• the formation of a holistic view of not only one's body and internal structure, but also moral, volitional and intellectual qualities.

interpersonal relationships

During adolescence, a young person begins to reconsider relationships with others, in particular with peers. So, they are divided into two categories - friends and comrades. The former are the closest, those that have earned devotion and respect. With all the rest of their peers, young people build comradely relations that imply polite treatment, mutual respect and mutual assistance.

The tactics of communication and building relationships with peers are built largely on the basis of future well-being (both psychological and physical). The most interesting and "useful" people remain in the social circle. The rest find themselves in a kind of emotional isolation. Nevertheless, often youthful friendship is idealized and illusory.

Also, for a young age, the emergence of such a deep feeling as love is characteristic. This is connected not only with the completion of puberty, but also with the desire to have a close person with whom you can share problems and joyful events. A beloved person is a kind of ideal both in terms of personal and in terms of external qualities.

Youth in the modern world

What is a dynamic category that is not permanent. Over time, with the development of society, it changes significantly. So, in connection with the rapidly growing acceleration, youth comes much earlier. But social maturity comes a little later. This is partly due to the fact that modern parents take care of children for much longer.

As in any other time, young people strive to work in order to independently provide themselves with money. Nonetheless modern trend is such that young men do not want to do "dirty work" that brings little income and determines low social status. There is a tendency to desire to get everything at once.

conclusions

Youth is the most beautiful time in a person's life. It is associated not only with romantic feelings and dreams, but also with great opportunities in terms of organizing your future. Research and recommendations from psychologists help guide young people in the right direction and push them to make the right decisions.