ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with some social and emotional aspects of adolescence, creative and moral development in adolescence. Adolescence, like middle childhood, is a concept that is partly warrantable in psychological terms and partly arbitrary. Psychologists have portrayed adolescence in different terms at different times. Margaret Mead's studies of adolescence in communities like Samoa drew attention to the influence of cultural patterns on adolescence. Systematic enquiries have shown clearly that one of the commonest complaints of the ordinary adolescent is that schools have enforced trivial conformities and curtailed the sense of personal freedom which adults demand for themselves. However, this leads one away from the psychology of adolescence to the question of the convergent and divergent functions of schools as institutions. A. C. Kinsey discusses the nature of sexual development in preadolescence and adolescence. The adolescent whose education is prolonged may derive long-term advantages, but he faces some special short-term problems.
