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Describe the "Storm-And-Stress" View of Adolescence

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Describe the "storm-and-stress" view of adolescence.Has is it been validated in research on adolescents?
G.Stanley Hall,who proposed the "storm-and-stress" view,adolescence is a turbulent time charged with conflict and mood swings.
However,when Daniel Offer and his colleagues (1988)studied the self-images of adolescents in the United States,Australia,Bangladesh,Hungary,Israel,Italy,Japan,Taiwan,Turkey,and West Germany,at least 73 percent of the adolescents displayed a healthy self-image.Although there were differences among them,the adolescents were happy most of the time,they enjoyed life,they perceived themselves as able to exercise self-control,they valued work and school,they expressed confidence about their sexual selves,they expressed positive feelings toward their families,and they felt they had the capability to cope with life's stresses


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