Document Type

Other

Publication Date

6-1-2009

Keywords

emotional stress, regonition, adolescents

Extension Number

ExEx 14061

Department

Consumer Sciences

Description

The family’s emotional climate has a large impact on adolescent stress. An adolescent’s emerging role as a young adult produces an acute awareness of family status. Parents need to monitor their teens if the family is suffering from extremely stressful circumstances, including economic uncertainty. When the family’s financial resources are threatened, rather than being shielded from regretful information, adolescents should be involved in the family decision making. Adolescents are often keenly aware of what is happen¬ing in society, including issues such as a poor economy, home foreclosures, and job loss. Teenagers may become fearful that these issues will affect not only the family’s well-being but also their own relationships with and standing among their peers. Teenagers may, in the extreme, be fearful that they will be uprooted from their community and friends.

Comments

Updated June 2009

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