DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES

IN MIDDLE AND LATE

ADOLESCENCE
{ MODULE 3
 GROW OLD
Vs.
GROW UP

DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS
 ROBERT HAVIGHURST
One on the pioneers in
human develoment
studies.

DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS
DEVELOPMENTAL DEVELOPMENTAL
TASKS STAGES

DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS
 Developmental tasks refer to
the specific knolwedge,
skills, attitudes, and
functions that a person
needs to acquire and, in
turn, be able to demonstrate
at particular periods in his or
her life.

DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS
  Achieving new and more mature
relations with age mates of both
sexes
 Achieving a feminine or masculine
social role
 Accepting one’s phyique and using
one’s body effectively
 Achieving emotional independence
from parents and other adults.

DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS
  Preparing for marriage and family
life
 Preparing for an economic career

 Acquring a set of values and an

ethical system as a guide to

behavior-developing ideology
 Desiring, accepting and achieving
socially responsible behavior.

DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS
 Early adolescence
Middle adolescence

Late adolescence

(Kimmel and Weiner,

1995)

DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES
DEVELOPMENTAL DEVELOPMENTAL
TASKS STAGES

DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS
 Early adolescence
happens when you are 12-13 years old
CHANGES:
rapid growth and various changes in
the body
TASK:
accept one’s physique and use one’s
body effectively.

DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES
Middle adolescence
happens in 14-16 year old teenagers
CHANGES
becoming more adept in social settings and more capable
of establishing intimate relationships.
TASK:
-achieving new an d mature relations with age mates of
both sexes and
-achieving a masculine or feminine social role
-achieving emotional independence from parents and
adults.

DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES
Late Adolescence
when you are 17 years old
TASKS:
-planning and preparing for marriage and
family life
-preparing for economic career
-acquiring a set of values and an ethical
system as a guide to behavior or ideology
-desiring and achieving socially responsible
behavior

DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES
 GROWING UP
IS NEVER EASY
Because it is a stage of “becoming”
rather than “being”

DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES
 Social
Development

Personality
Behavior

ADOLESCENTS IN THE 21ST CENTURY

 SOCIAL
DEVELOPMENT
 Instant results
 Value placed on materialism

 Technology

 Family structure

ADOLESCENTS IN THE 21ST CENTURY

 Materialism
characterizes the youth
today.
STATUS SYMBOL

ADOLESCENTS IN THE 21ST CENTURY

 According to Hurlock
(1982), status symbols are
prestige symbols that tell
others that the owner is of
higher status.

ADOLESCENTS IN THE 21ST CENTURY

 Image

Inner beauty
and value of a
person

ADOLESCENTS IN THE 21ST CENTURY

 Modern teenagers are
described as digital
natives
-tech-savvy
-capable of easy accessing
information
-capable of multitasking

ADOLESCENTS IN THE 21ST CENTURY

 Catherine Wood
Founder and President of
Relationships under
Construction

ADOLESCENTS IN THE 21ST CENTURY

 Pornography destroys the
person and family
 Young people who gets

addicted to playing online

games think and learn school
lessons differently.