Similarities and Differences in Adolescent Development

Similarities and Differences in Adolescent Development

Introduction

Throughout the whole life we are in the process of development. This development process starts from the day first of humans' life, and continues until we die. Basic and the first step starts with the age of infancy and children, then the cycle of development will continue in the progressive manner the same child reaches the stages of adolescence, adult and finally the elderly stage. In this essay the adolescence would be highlighted and the development into the genders. As adolescence refers to the stages of the development which occurs between the age of childhood and adulthood, the age refers for the adulthood is between 12 and 19 years for both the genders. The adolescence stage usually consider for an individual when it reaches to the age of puberty. Thus this development involves different fields such as social, physical, moral, cognitive and perceptual and so on. In this way the adolescence needs to be treated as an individual as there are certain similarities and differences can also be found between males and females. Moreover the detail of this topic includes the differences and similarities in the development of adolescent.

Discussion

Adolescent Physical Development

In the age of adulthood there are certain physical changes are also taken place with the boys and girls. As this is the age of growth and development. Puberty is one of the main stage for which many adolescent found uncomfortable, instead of teaching them about the physical changes and development which would be taken place at the age of adolescent (Coleman & Hendry, 1999). At the age of adolescent the main development experience such as disorder eating, weight and physical activities, sexual development, puberty development, body image or physical appearance, and late or early sexual development.

Sometimes it is seems that the bodies of adolescent change overnight, but the sexual maturation occurs not rapidly but it takes plenty of years (Kipke, 1999). There are many factors present that influence on the puberty progression, includes body fat, chronic illness presence, diet, nutrition, biological and genetically influence, socioeconomic status, and stressful life events. The growth erupt between boys and girls including the growth of the skeletal, for girls it normally begins with the age of 10 to 12, and for boys it refers to the 12 to 14, the completion for girls approx ages would be around 17 to 19, whereas for boys it reaches around 20 boys (Hofmann & Greydanus, 1997). There are certain other changes also taken place into both the genders. For girls the development in breast budding starts usually the age of 10 or earlier, more important physical change is menstruation occurs at the age of 12 or may be 13. Whereas in boys, physically development may also taken place which involves the puberty by the enlargement of the testes from the age of 11 or 12, similarly with as girls menstruation taken place some late, the first ejaculation in boy usually occurs at the age of ...