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What Characterizes Parent-Adolescent Conflict?

Parent-adolescent conflict is typically characterized by rebelliousness and arguments stemming from problems in the adolescent's behavior. However, research shows that intense conflict is uncommon, and most adolescents live in harmony with their parents. During adolescence, friendships can evolve into romantic relationships which provide companionship, trust and support but can also cause negative emotions. Depression in adolescence is related to suicide, as intense, prolonged sadness and low self-esteem associated with depression can lead one to view suicide as the only escape from their prison of negative emotions.

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What Characterizes Parent-Adolescent Conflict?

Parent-adolescent conflict is typically characterized by rebelliousness and arguments stemming from problems in the adolescent's behavior. However, research shows that intense conflict is uncommon, and most adolescents live in harmony with their parents. During adolescence, friendships can evolve into romantic relationships which provide companionship, trust and support but can also cause negative emotions. Depression in adolescence is related to suicide, as intense, prolonged sadness and low self-esteem associated with depression can lead one to view suicide as the only escape from their prison of negative emotions.

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1. What characterizes parent-adolescent conflict?

Parent-adolescent conflict is typically, or stereotypically, characterized as the


period of “Storm and Stress.” In this period, the adolescent develops characteristics of
rebelliousness, combativeness, and tend to be argumentative. Simply put, such conflict
arises from the problems in the adolescent’s behavior.

However, contrary to popular belief, research suggests that this period is


uncommon, and that most adolescents live in harmony and appreciation with and
towards their parents.

2. What changes take place in friendship during adolescence?

Adolescents start to see friendships as prospects for romantic relationships, a


kind of relationship which are more common in this stage. Romantic relationship, in a
sense, is a deeper version of friendship, which, for the younger adolescents, offer
companionship, while for the older adolescents, it offers a relationship founded in trust
and support. As a result, adolescents who find themselves in a romantic relationship are
more self-confident, however, they also experience other negative feelings due to
emotional conflicts brought about by the same relationship.

3. What is the nature of depression and suicide in adolescence?

During adolescence, depression and suicide are related in the sense that
depression is the precursor to suicide.

Feelings of sadness, irritability, and low self-esteem are, in my opinion, are


natural feelings that we may experience from time to time. Then, certain events can
happen afterwards that will allow us to recover from such feelings. However, depression
intensifies such feelings, giving it a sense of inevitability. As time goes by, such feelings
begin to swallow the individual and start to dictate most of the individual’s behavior.
Ultimately, this gives the individual a cynical and pessimistic mindset, and believes that
there is no escape in such a prison of negative emotions. Then, suicide becomes an
option.

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