Life is full of changes and in the period of the adolescence the changes start to develop what a person will be in the adultness. Many factors are matured in the teenage years as an example, one of them is sexuality. Sexuality can be a very important variable in the life of an adolescent, because in this life period the sexual identity is defined. There are three strong circumstances that can define the sexual identity of an adolescent: The biological characteristic, love and pornography. The biological characteristics are an important fact on the development of sexual identity, a more accurate definition for biological characteristics can be sex, according to the Oxford dictionary sex means: “Either of the two main categories (male and female) into which humans and most other living things are divided on the basis of their reproductive functions.” (“Sex,” 2013) The sex definition is connected to the idea of the genital organs that define us as males or females. Therefore the sex is one of the main sexuality boosters, because the male is form by testosterone and estrogen the levels of testosterone are higher than the levels of estrogen and that cause in the male most violent and masculine traits. On the other hand, the girls have more estrogen levels than testosterone, because the estrogen is the one that generates de corporal development on the women (Gwartney, 2013). A good example to explain better the theory of the biological characteristics is the case of Dr. Money and the boy with no penis, an experiment against the biological rules; this is a case of the BBC and also a documentary, because it causes a lot of controversy. In the year 1965 when the twins Brian and Bruce Reimer were sent to the local hospital for a routine c... ... middle of paper ... ...t. Belomont: Wadsworth. Brown, J. D., Steele, J. R., & Walsh-Childers, K. (2002). SEXUAL TEENS, SEXUAL MEDIA: Investigating Media’s Influence on Adolescent Sexuality. New Jersey: LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOCIATES, PUBLISHERS. Hartel, C. E., Zerbe, W. J., & Ashkanasy, N. M. (2005). EMOTIONS INORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Schetky, D. H., & Benedek, E. P. (2002). Principles and Practice of Child and Adolescent Forensic Psychiatry. London: American Psychiatric Publishing. Sex, (2013) Online edition of the Oxford English dictionary (http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/sex). Gwartney, D. (2013). Predeterminado Efectos Testosterona y Estradiol. Herramientas, 13, 00. BBC. (2010). Dr. Money and the boy with no penis [Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUTcwqR4Q4Y&list=PL4XMCGEuCKGULWW_LekD2OU3TnLP3Loe1
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Adolescence is a transition which has no fixed time limits. However, the changes that occur at this time are so significant that it is useful to talk about adolescence as a distinct period of human life cycle. This period ranges from biological changes to changes in behavior and social status, thus making it difficult to specify its limits exactly (Damon, 2008). Adolescence begins with puberty, i.e. a series of physiological changes that lead to full development of the sexual organs and the ability to breed and sex. The time interval that elapses begins at 11 to 12 years and extends to 18 to 20. However we cannot associate to a 13 with one 18 years. Let us talk about early adolescence between 11 to 14 years, which coincides with puberty, and after a second period of youth, or late adolescence between 15-20 years. Its extension to adulthood depends on social, cultural, environmental as well as personal adaptation.
They all agree that media has certain impacts on adolescent attitudes and behaviors, however, they express more concerns about how much adolescents are actually aware of this. In order to prove this, they asked a group of people coming from the urban and rural communities of Southwest Michigan to participate in interviews and discussion about adolescent sexual behaviors. These participants were divided in groups with young girls, boys, their mothers and fathers, “The average age was 15 for girls and 16 for boys. Parents’ ages ranged from 41 to 51 with the average age being 46 for mothers and 48 for fathers.” They were asked to rank and discuss the influential factors such as parents, peers and media. The purpose of this experiment is to identify the extent of how adolescents and their parents think about media’s influence without being prompted. The results from groups were compared and surprisingly, the adolescents did not seem to think that media has such huge impact on their sexual behaviors, which was opposite to what their parents believed as they showed significant concerns about how media influences their children. However, most of the girls in the focus group tried to minimize the media’s influence, “several
2013. P125) media is shaping today's youth no just with violence, gender stereotyping, and sexual promiscuities, and this becomes difficult to interpret what is the true influence of media.
There are several key factors that are a part of sexuality development as children begin to mature. Broderick and Blewitt (2015) stated that, “the term sexuality development has replaced sexual development over the past decade reflecting the fluidity and interconnectedness of physical and psychological development over the course of coming to understand one’s sexuality,” (p. 355). This is semantical difference, and the rationale behind the change, is important because it takes into consideration numerous factors that affects one sexuality development. Important factors involved in this process include biological factors, social factors, and cultural factors.
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it generally refers to a period ranging from age 12 or 13 through age 19 or 21.
The adolescent stage must be the subject of the research, in that preliminary research suggests that in the adolescent stage of life, important social aspects are being noticed and formed, especially by way of media, while looking to family for social information or influence diminishes (Arnett, 1995). In researching the effects of media on adolescent views of relationships, one must first research if scholars have yet studied and answered if the media has any relationship or effect on adolescents at all. In the research conversation of media influence on adolescents, it has been found that there are five uses of media by adolescents, including entertainment, high sensation, coping, identity formation and youth culture identification (the two latter uses will be highlighted later in this paper) (Arnett, 1995). With this, adolescent’s use of media for a number of purposes is evident and has been established for some time. Moreover, research suggests that U.S. adolescents spend six to seven hours per day using media, with half of that time devoted to television/film (L’Engle, Brown, & Kenneavy, 2006). Furthermore, many studies have found that heavy television/film viewing does positively correlate with effects on an individual’s beliefs, attitudes, and perceptions (Shrum, Wyer, & O 'Guinn, 2009). Professor and Researcher Dr. George Gerbner coined and introduced cultivation theory into this communicative conversation. The cultivation theory is defined as the “independent contributions television /film viewing makes to viewer conceptions of social reality (Gerbner, 1998). The cultivation theory describes and has both constructed a platform research in this area as well as prove that me...
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Morris & Feldman(1996, 1997) have also contributed to the growing literature on emotional labor in organizations by refining the conceptualization of emotional labor. They defined emotional labor as "the effort, planning, and control needed to express organizationally desired emotion during interpersonal transaction"(Morris & Feldman, 1996).
Adolescence, according to Hall (1916), is a period that begins at puberty for about 12 to 13 years, and it ends late at 22 years to 25 years of age. He also describes this period as a period of "sturm und drung" which means "storm and stress". The period of sturm und drung in German literature includes the masterpiece of schiller and the writings of Goethe. This literary movement is full of idealism, expression of personal feelings, enthusiasm and distress.
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Brown, Jane D., and Piotr S. Bobkowski. "Older And Newer Media: Patterns Of Use And Effects On Adolescents' Health And Well-Being." Journal of Research on Adolescence (Blackwell Publishing Limited) 21.1 (2011): 95-113. Academic Search Premier. Web. 28 Feb. 2013.
The article Boys Will Be Boys and Girls Better Be Prepared: An Analysis of the Rare Sexual Health Messages in Young Adolescents’ Media examines and critiques four different vehicles of media. The study, that took place in the year 2000, chose to look at television shows, movies, magazines, and music as the four different vehicles of media that affect adolescents today. Each vehicle of media has five different examples of that vehicle. For example, the vehicle of magazines had Co...
Sexual activity in the mass media is another negative influence on teenagers. The first example is early sexual intercourse. According to Stockwell, a research shows that teenagers who are exposed to a lot of sexual content on television are more to likely to have sex by 16 years of age than those with limited exposure.