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The Moral Development Of Adolescents, 2006.
An analysis of the factors contributing to the moral development of adolescents.
1,850 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 8 sources, APA, £ 41.95
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This study emphasizes the role of faith on the moral development of adolescence. The paper discusses early studies suggesting that faith has a profound impact on young adults' conceptualization of values and beliefs, and subsequent moral development. It debates whether religion has a positive or negative impact. The paper then discusses what other factors may influence moral development including familial factors and school.
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Introduction
Faith in the Moral Development of Adolescents
Analysis of Literature
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"The research available is lacking in some respects with respect to the exact effects faith has on adolescent moral development. Much of the theories presented examine whether religion influences young adolescences formation of self identity and values or belief systems. This research also links faith based practices to children's social environment, selection of peers and familial environment. The literature presented by Zern (1997) suggests that clergy may be influential in moral development, but not as influential as familial or school related influences. School related influences include the values and beliefs held by peers and the teachings available in an educational setting. This suggests that an adolescent attending a religious based academy is more likely to adopt the values and beliefs supported in the educational environment than those that might be widely accepted in the community at large."
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Moral Development in Relation to Adolescents, 2004.
An examination of factors that affect the moral development of adolescents, written from a Christian caregiver's perspective.
1,375 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 8 sources, MLA, £ 31.95
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This paper looks into the minds of adolescents and identifies the stimuli one faces in the process of moral development. As parents, mentors, and teachers attempt to instill beneficial, moral values (preferably Christian morals) in adolescents, what must be considered? What can be assumed about the development of these values in the future generation? This paper answers these questions in order to inform both young and old of the development of morals in adolescents.
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"The moral issue is one that is not entirely black and white. There have been many differing opinions throughout history that have contributed to the confusion of where to find one?s moral standard (if one is found at all). Joseph Fletcher, in his book Situational Ethics, outlines three different avenues to making moral decisions. ?They are: (1) the legalistic; (2) the antinomian, the opposite extreme - i.e., a lawless and unprincipled approach; and (3) the situational? (Fletcher, 17). These three avenues have reproduced themselves throughout history, and all three are still apparent in today?s society. Legalism is the most common, with situational in a close second. Yet society, as a whole, seems to be leaning heavily toward the situational approach. Yet, this poses a problem for the evangelical community, who hold to the authority of God, and the foundational beliefs in absolutes (17-18)."
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Development of Adolescence versus Late Adulthood, 2007.
Compares the social and physical development of adolescents to senior adults.
2,190 words (approx. 8.8 pages), 8 sources, APA, £ 47.95
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This paper compares and contrasts adolescents and senior adults in terms of social and physical development. The paper describes, in detail, each stage of development and characterizes each by traits and characteristics that are specific to them. The paper concludes that these two stages possesses more similarities than differences.
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A Developmental Comparison between Adolescents and Senior Adults
Adolescence
Senior Adults (Late Adulthood)
Conclusion
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"Late adulthood bears a transition that follows a somewhat reverse order from that of adolescents. While adolescence begins with physical changes, the ushering in of late adulthood begins with a social change, that of retirement. It signifies the end of one's productive role in society while adolescents are just beginning to establish theirs. Retirement also means severing one's ties with colleagues and work associates or friends, a type of isolation that can be difficult to face. Adolescents face nearly the opposite challenge of initiating and forging social ties within school and community, and changing the relationship between members of family. The social skills they learn within this stage carries on into young and middle adulthood. As one ages, physical aging starts to manifest itself in subtle ways, becoming more obvious with time. It is this impending sense of mortality that preoccupies elderly persons as they get older - spouses, relatives and friends die. While death is a normal part of life, the final milestone - a sense of accomplishment and pride in one's well-lived life - would be achieved."
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Adolescent Social Development, 1990.
This paper reveiws the developmental theories of Jean Piaget, Laurence Kohlberg and Erik Erikson about adolescent stages of moral and psychosocial development and its impact on adulthood.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 3 sources, £ 43.95
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"Intellectual growth from birth to old age is now known as cognition. The Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget (b. 1896) was the first to develop a method to study the way in which infants and children see and understand the world. He was also the first to offer the conclusion that these ways of seeing and understanding are quite different in the infant and child than they are in the adult. His was also the first account of the process of mental growth from infancy to adulthood. This paper will briefly discuss Piaget's theories as a way of leading into the work of Laurence Kohlberg and Erik Erikson. An analysis of Kohlberg's moral reasoning theories and Erikson's eight stages of human development theory will be rendered with a focus on adolescent social development.
Piaget believed that mental growth involves major qualitative changes. Previously, both the empiricists and nativists saw the child as being similar to the adult: the first saw him as an adult-in-training; the latter as an adult-in-miniature. Piaget used qualitative differences to try and map the orderly progression of human intellect as the child grows into an adult. Piaget argued that "mental development is characterized by qualitative changes." He proposed four main stages of
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Adolescent Identity Development, 2007.
Reviews two articles about identity formation in adolescence: "The Development of the Sense of Self in Adolescence" by A. Blasi and K. Milton and "Styles of Identity Formation in Early and Middle Adolescence" by H. Flum.
1,325 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 2 sources, APA, £ 30.95
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This paper examines and compares "The Development of the Sense of Self in Adolescence" by A. Blasi and K. Milton and "Styles of Identity Formation in Early and Middle Adolescence" by H. Flum, which both explore different adolescent identity styles and how they are formed. The paper points out that both articles are influenced by Erik Erikson's concept of the development of personality during adolescence. The paper also explains that Flum explores styles of identity within the framework of a number of issues, which concern adolescents at different age levels and represent the intrapersonal and interpersonal facets of the adolescent's experience; whereas, Blasi and Milton clarify an adolescent's sense of self, which underlies the experience of their evolving identity.
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"Flum (1994) results were categorized based on Marcia's ego-identity statuses. These showed whether the participant demonstrated identity diffusion, foreclosure, moratorium, diffused type of moratorium and a less-diffused type of moratorium. The participants who fit into the identify diffusion category showed high external orientation and low decisiveness. The lower SES group had the most extreme cases of identity diffusion. The results for sex differences showed that 8 out of 10 of the extreme identity cases where males. There was no difference found for age for participants with extreme identity diffusion and the extreme non diffusion participants."
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Adolescent Development, 2002.
A discussion of the development of humans at different stages of their lives, concentrating on adolescent development.
1,585 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 35.95
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The focus of this paper will be on the adolescent period of the developmental stage of an individual. Developmental psychology uses various perspectives or approaches in explaining the patterns of development or change in a human being. It looks at issues such as sexual awareness, puberty, independence and self-image.
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"One of the first approaches that will help explain the patterns of development of a human being is through the physical development stage. Physical development involves the bodily changes that young people have when they approach the puberty stage. Puberty is often referred to as ?a period of rapid skeletal and sexual maturation that occurs mainly in early adolescence? (Santrock 2000 346). During the puberty stage, female and male individuals undergo several changes suitable for their physical stature and composition. Puberty among girls usually begins at age 9 to 12, while puberty among boys start at ages 11 to 14. Changes include the growth of hair in the genital areas and underarms of both male and female. Body proportions also change, with females developing bigger hips, bigger breasts, ovulation, and menstrual cycle begins. Males, meanwhile, starts producing sperms, erections and ejaculations, wet dreams, and darkening of the scrotum (Advocates for Youth 2002)."
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Ginzberg's Tentative Stage of Adolescent Career Development, 2005.
A discussion of Eli Ginzberg's tentative stage of adolescent career development.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 3 sources, £ 36.95
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This paper examines a specific theoretical approach to the study of career development. Specifically, the author expounds upon the work done by Eli Ginzberg in the late 1940s. In his theory, Ginzberg proposes that adolescents develop through a tentative stage of career development. This paper describes the nature of the tentative stage, its usefulness as a theory, and its application in the real world.
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"The study of human development is complex and demanding discipline. It requires researchers to develop theoretical frameworks that are capable of accounting for a myriad of environmental, social, cultural, economic, and even genetic factors. This is no easy task. Therefore, the creation of a theoretical approach to development, in any specific regard, is important if that theory can stand up to critical scrutiny. This importance is evident when we consider the study of how career choices are made by growing individuals through the eyes of a developmental psychologist. The purpose of this study is to examine one specific element of Eli Ginzberg's theory on career choice. He and his research associates developed this theory and published their findings in 1949 (Frey, 2005). Ginzberg approached the question of how individuals choose careers for themselves by isolating the developmental process that leads up to the actual decision."
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Pre-adolescent Academic Development, 2007.
An analysis of the influence of parental educational attainment on pre-adolescent academic performance and development.
1,369 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 6 sources, APA, £ 31.95
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This paper discusses the influence of parents' educational attainment on pre-adolescent academic performance and development. It analyzes how a parent can be the primary factor that determines whether their child develops certain behaviors which are often a mix of both expected and desirable, and unexpected and undesirable. The paper also discusses the effects of parental demographic factors, occupation and financial status on a child's academic performance.
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Review of Literature
Conclusion
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"Pre-adolescents are at a crossroads of biological and psychosocial change. One of the specific "barometers" of this change is academic performance as determined by parental educational attainment. Parental educational attainment, as a component of socioeconomic status, although independently demonstrated to have profound effects on a child's cognitive development and academic performance can be difficult to isolate from the effects of other components such as parental demographic factors, occupation and financial status. In spite of this, not only does a higher educational attainment of parents influence academic performance both directly and indirectly regardless of income, but is also directly influenced by learning opportunities available to the child from birth."
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Preschool vs. Adolescent Development, 2005.
An examination of the differences between preschool children and adolescents.
2,475 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 11 sources, £ 67.95
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The paper focuses on the differences between preschool (preoperative) children and adolescents. The hypothesis developed and proven by a literature review was that preoperative children and adolescents are developing faster and facing more challenges as a result of rapid growth, based on social, technological and educational changes that are taking place. The paper focuses on the risk of a dramatic increase in clinical depression among preschool children and the equally dramatic increase in the rate of teen suicide.
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"While often lost in what they believe is pretend, preschool children often attempt to mirror the developmental qualities based on emotional level of functioning, interest in social skills, money, possessions, etc. of their older adolescent brothers and sisters. However, they are not psychologically equipped to handle such activity on a daily basis; there are additional stages of learning and development that are required. The adolescent on the other hand, more than anything else, attempts to mirror the qualities they see and strive for in the adult world."
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Adolescence: A Time of Development, 2008.
This paper explores the various transitions during adolescence.
1,712 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 10 sources, APA, £ 38.95
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The paper discusses the biological and environmental transitions that can have a negative or positive effect on an adolescent. The paper considers the issues of an adolescent's physical appearance not being in accordance with his intellectual and behavioural adaptations, the self-consciousness of body image and the cognitive development in perception, attention and memory that can lead to a quest for identity development.
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"Adolescence, marked by the onset of pubertal maturation and represented by a period during lifespan where a child becomes an adult, is characterised by many transitions which can either be biologically based (the body) or environmentally based (people, relationships, general society, etc.). Biological transitions include physical and mental transitions whereas environmental transitions consist of social transitions. These transitions enable a child to encounter new experiences and to adjust their thinking to them which allows the child to then become an adult. Therefore, both biological and environmental transitions have an effect on each other and can either have a negative or a positive effect on the adolescent."
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The Effects of Working on Adolescent Development, 2000.
This paper is an examination of psychological studies on the benefits and detriments of working teens.
1,110 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 4 sources, £ 26.95
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This paper examines and compares three studies on adolescents who work part-time in the United States. The paper seeks to refute the common wisdom that holds work experience to be beneficial to youth in increasing their responsibility and self-reliance. The author also discusses the ramifications of the studies' conclusions on educators and parents.
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"Unfortunately, many of the jobs that junior high and high school students are employed at are neither challenging nor stimulating. Adolescents often work in repetitive, uninteresting service jobs such as a retail clerk or fast food worker. These jobs do not develop higher skills or allow the worker to explore their interests, or even to make important decisions on the job. Since working does not ipso facto increase responsibility or self-reliance in adolescence (and can even lead to deleterious effects) (Steinberg & Dornbusch, 1991), there is no reason to encourage teenagers to work in these types of jobs."
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Moral Standards and Moral Consistency, 2008.
This paper explores the moral standards in the associations of Eberhard Faber, Incorporated.
1,049 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 3 sources, APA, £ 25.95
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The paper examines the decision to allow Eberhard Faber to associate with known bribe-givers. The paper is of the opinion that this association seems like an affront to the moral consistency requirement demanded of any credible moral standard. The paper contends that respecting the law in some, but not in all, circumstances makes a mockery of the organization's avowed commitment to legal dictates and therefore is inherently immoral.
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"Before going too far, the stakeholders in this situation need to be listed. Obviously, the share-holders of Eberhard Faber are one significant stake-holder; so too is the Board of Directors and, especially, the key principals (Mr. Faber and Mr. Carey) who offer widely divergent views on how to approach this matter. Not to be forgotten, the other company involved is a stake-holder as it could lose a major deal with an American company - a deal it would seem to covet. Lastly, IRS and legal consultants who convinced Mr. Faber that the deal was above-board and breached no US laws are stake-holders with credibility on the line (for a lengthier discussion on all of these parties, please see "Eberhard Faber, Inc.," n.d.). In the end, many people stand to win - or lose."
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Emotional Development and Self-Esteem, 2005.
A brief overview of Erickson's stages of social development up until adolescence and a discussion on the importance of self-esteem in the classroom.
1,678 words (approx. 6.7 pages), 6 sources, MLA, £ 37.95
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This paper outlines six of Erickson's eight stages of emotional development, including basic trust versus basic mistrust, autonomy verses shame and doubt, initiative versus guilt, industry versus inferiority, and identity versus role confusion. In addition to the stages of development, this paper also touches on the importance of self-esteem and includes suggestions on how educators can promote positive self-esteem in the classroom.
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"Understanding the emotional development in early childhood through adulthood, leads us to understanding the importance of self-esteem. Through our experiences with the world, we as human beings, form concepts of causal relationships. We formulate opinions of ourselves based upon the collected experiences of life. Some are fortunate enough to grow and develop in positive nurturing environments that foster optimal beliefs systems. Others have a more difficult time remaining positive about themselves and life in general. Just as people form concepts regarding the behavior of inanimate objects, animals, and other human beings, they also form a concept of themselves, of what they are like, of how they will react in various situations. The concept people form of themselves stated positively or negatively, is their self-esteem."
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Adolescence, 2002.
Psychological study of human development and adolescence.
2,175 words (approx. 8.7 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 46.95
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This paper examines the psychological development of adolescence children into adults. The paper considers Piaget?s theory of cognitive development and discusses Kohlberg?s theory of moral development. It explores adolescent social development through considering the development of self-image and self-esteem. The paper finally describes the development of sexual identity.
Table of Contents:
Piaget?s Theory of Human Development
Kohlberg?s Theory of Moral Reasoning
Self-identity and Self-esteem
Sexual Identity
Conclusion
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"Adolescence is a major time in development, with the period of adolescence representing the transition from childhood to adulthood. By the end of adolescence the individual has become an adult. The importance of this process is described by Petersen who states that the teenage years set the patterns that will persist until the end of the person?s life (Petersen 1988, 584). To consider adolescent development further it is necessary to look at several aspects that make up the process. Firstly, it is important to define the two types of development, cognitive development and social development. Cognition is defined as ?mental operations involved in the acquisition and use of knowledge. These mental operations include perception, memory, language and thought? (Seamon & Kenrick 1994, 662). This cognitive development also extends to moral development, where moral development is based on how people think and make decisions, incorporating making moral judgments."
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