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Adolescence represents a critical period in a person’s life as whatever socialisation, learning and experiences adolescents have, characteristics and response tendencies they inculcate and the problems they face, go a long way to influence their personal, social and occupational behaviour thoughout their later life. Thus, to understand the dynamics of adolescent development in the present era of competition, modernization, technological advancement and liberalization is of great significance.
The present book includes many researches related to psychology of adolescence, focusing mainly on the impact of parenting practices on adolescent characteristics, psychological consequences of working and non-working mothers, group differences with regard to certain psychological variables, psychodynamics’ of educational achievement, adjustment, personality, pattern of reaction to frustration, ways of coping and success in competitive examinations and dynamics of vocational unrealism, vocational indecision and vocational maturity and effects of intervention programmes on them.
The book is an attempt to provide theoretical and practical insight and suggestions useful for parents, teachers, researchers, and counsellors, planners and all those who are concerned with the development of the future generation.
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