Long time adolescence remained without proper attention to psychologists and physiologists, and virtually all of the studies relating to school-age adolescents especially affected.But adolescence - a period when there is the completion of the human maturing physically, is the formation and growth of world-consciousness, there is a need to make a choice of profession.
Youth age affects between 14 to 18 years, and is a kind of intermediate stage between childhood and adulthood.These interim defines some psychological characteristics of the individual on the one hand, inherited from the previous period, the right to autonomy of adults, on the other - comes to defining its place in the adult world.Accordingly, the characteristics of adolescence determined by the development of mental abilities and integrative mechanisms of self-differentiation of interests and elaboration of attitudes.
leading activity in this period is a study with professional orientation.Became interested in the teaching of associated including a self-improvement: Now there is the desire to not only increase their level of culture, but also the desire to be interesting to others.Entry into early adolescence is associated, according to G. Abramova, the fact that intellectual activity moves to a new, more sophisticated level.This leads to the fact that the senior school age, this activity becomes affectively colored by self-determination.Moreover, the mental development takes on its own individual style, which refers to a person "balancing their individuality with the terms of substantive activities."
great leap in the development of mental functions, according to psychologists, is due to the moral and scientific world.Therefore, the central new formation of this period is a professional, personal self-determination, which implies Maturity psychological structures at a high level.Start this process was initiated in adolescence, when the child appears stable image of "I", when a person learns to build your internal dialogue and experiment with them.Opening the inner peace leads to an understanding of its uniqueness, originality, and the feeling of loneliness inevitably arises.Therefore there is a need to fill the emotional void appearing inside.This leads to an irresistible need to communicate at the same time there is a certain selectivity and need for privacy.
Thus, adolescence is characterized by formation of cognitive / professional interest, there is the ability to plan for life.There overcoming dependence on adults, yet the assertion of his personality as an independent unit.The importance of communication is maintained collective forms of interaction and appears aimed at creating individual contacts.Cognitive sphere is characterized by the formation of general abilities, while in the stage of development continue to be creative and special abilities.