ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to understand puberty as a biological, psychological, and social event. It explains about adolescents’ psychological experience of and their reactions to the bodily changes that arise during puberty. Pubertal maturation is the result of physiological developments in the individual reproductive system. The function of the hormonal system is to coordinate the activities of the various body systems. Hormones are produced in ductless glands and transported in the blood. Sex hormones are the specific hormones produced by the internal sex organs in both sexes. The pituitary gland then starts to produce sex-specific proportions of luteinizing hormones and follicle-stimulating hormones, which trigger increased growth of the ovaries in the female and the testes in the male. Pubertal status refers to the level of development reached by an individual in terms of physical changes at a given time. Pubertal status, measured in terms of bodily changes, has been found to correlate with negative moods and their intensity.
