Question

Resiliency in Adolescence What makes some teens more resilient and better able to handle adolescent stress than others? Offer an example of a common teen stressor, and consider Erik Erikson’s ideas about identity development during adolescence, cultural influences, and peer and family relationships. Support your reasoning with information from the text and other course materials.

Answer 1

Answer:

Erikson's theory of social development explaines how adolescence is a stage were teens are building their identity or self. They are discovering and exploring new ideas an building likes and dislikes. Creativity, new intrests, friends, the possibility to have a role to identify to, or some dream or ideal which helped them stablish goals will help them be more resilent.

Explanation:

Identity vs confussion role is the stage in which adolescents have a crisis of what are day going to be, who are day going to become. A lot of insecurities and problems occure so in this process the more secure, and self rely a person can be, they can outgrow the problems and create solutions.

Art, making friends, having intrests in sports, all this can help them be creative and resilient. Having aspirations for instance can help them.