Teenagers of the 21st century: key features of development and personal development

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

Who are they, teenagers of the 21st century?

Not so long ago, psychologists refuted the information that the duration of adolescence is 19 years. At the moment, they believe that adolescence lasts 14 years - from 10 to 24 years. This is primarily due to an increase in the level of socialization of adolescents, the availability and ubiquity of various information flows.

Internet very quickly replaced live communication

21st century teenagers are very different from previous generations as they grow up in an era of rapidly advancing scientific and technological progress. It affects their consciousness and subconscious. The World Wide Web, with its huge steps, has gradually reached all spheres of life. Teenagers of the 21st century less and less prefer pastime on the Internet to live communication. This is an objective and unpleasant truth that needs to be known and understood. Because of this, such communication can be called inferior, therefore, modern teenagers develop inferiorly. Often during this period they have problems with communication, because they are at the stage of forming themselves as individuals.

What Internet Addiction Leads To

Due to the excess of time spent on the Internet, excessive, immeasurable and indiscriminate passion for social networks and video games, they want to escape from reality into a colorful and free world of virtual life, where there are no problems and annoying people. But this is one side of the coin, because in parallel with this, technology and technological innovations provide a lot of additional opportunities for mental development, communication, and self-education. In this matter, it is very important to make a decision on the appropriate construction of time management by teenagers, since time must be spent with benefit and practical meaning, and excessive enthusiasm for the Internet, of course, hinders their personal development and movement forward.

How does modern life affect teenagers?

Today it is very common to believe that the generation of teenagers of the 21st century is the generation of infantile people. Mostly they are adapted to life much less than their parents at their age. With the popularization of the Internet and television, they have ideals and canons that they want to follow, because they believe that this will make them happier.

What else can be said about teenagers of the 21st century? An excess of intrusive advertising greatly distorts reality, which is quite harsh at the present time. Many of them believe that money is easy to earn, although this is not at all the case. Often teenagers are faced with the psychological onslaught of other personalities, with attempts by dishonest people to impose their ownopinion for their own selfish ends. The most unpleasant thing about this is that the teenager simply has nowhere to go from this. The consequence is the inability to solve their problems on their own, analyze, reason, separate the main from the secondary, the child becomes passive and indifferent.

What do 21st century teenagers want?

The experience of psychologists shows that very often a teenager suffers either from a lack of parental attention or from an overabundance. Therefore, the question of correct and correct education is very important. Parents from childhood are obliged to teach their child simple truths, to lay in him the foundations and motives of behavior with money, relationships with friends, relatives, the opposite sex, helping to solve problems as they arise.

Teenagers of the 21st century really want to communicate on an equal footing with adults, so parents must respect their child, in no case neglect his (her) opinion, appreciate, share and support the hobbies of the younger generation in family. And if necessary or problems arise, help psychologically, substitute a parental shoulder at the right time.