Family Influence on Teenagers' Behavior

This assignment examines the impact of family environment on teenagers' emotional development and behavioral patterns. It delves into how parenting styles, family structures, and gender dynamics within families influence adolescents' self-perception, relationships, and overall adjustment. The text also highlights the role of peer groups and societal expectations in shaping teenage behavior, emphasizing the need for guidance and support to foster healthy emotional development.

Discuss how undue
aggression and unresolved
oppositional behaviour
can influence emotional
development

Discuss how undue aggression and unresolved oppositional behaviour can influence
emotional development during childhood and adolescence.
Children are very sensitive and aggressive in their childhood. They do not understand
what is right and wrong for them. Aggression can be due to mood disorders, psychosis,
frustration, injury, trauma. In mood disorders, students and adults lose their self control and they
become more impulse. They become depressed, irritable due to which they lash out. Another
thing is frustration, when they face problem of communication and intellectual impairment, they
become frustrate and aggressive (Beckett and Taylor, 2016). Due this frustration, children face
difficulty in maintaining their anxiety. This affect their emotional development and behaviour.
Further, disruptive behaviour disorders of children cannot make effective decisions. They
do not focus on the outcomes of their actions and hence they have to face opposite things which
make them more rude and aggressive. Kids become malicious and not able to handle themselves
due to which their treatment is quite different from normal children. Injury is another reason
which make them explosive as they fade up and feels that they have no freedom for playing
games and doing activities like others (Criss and et.al., 2016). Furthermore, Trauma is the
situation in which adults are under high pressure and stress. These factors do not allow them to
express their emotional illness which increases their anger and they take wrong steps like suicide
and other depressive behaviour.
Adolescence is the stage which begins from late childhood and remains until when
children do not complete its physical growth. In this stage, hormones emotions and physical
changes takes place rapidly. Anger and unresolved situations are the elements which are quite
common in teenagers and adults. They become very aggressive and lose their temper for small
issues. Adults are not able to control their emotions and feelings at this stage and often commit
mistakes (Jongsma Jr, Peterson, and McInnis, 2016). Indicators of anger in adolescence are
impatience, grouchy, irritation and aggressive nature.
Family plays an important role in guiding and directing their children and adults. Their
support and friendly behaviour will help them in recovering from their aggressive behaviour.
Family background and their mentality will help them in taking correct decisions and leading
their lives on correct direction. Adults can take support from their parents and grandparents when
they are in dilemma of their living decisions. They help them in guiding the rules and real facts
of the world and give them good manners and teachings. Additionally, caretakers are

emotionally attached with their children and help them in making effective relations with society
and the world (Laible and et.al., 2016). This assists youngsters to take effective decisions to
develop their emotions and make their life successful and easy.
Teachers and peer also plays significant role in controlling aggressive behaviour and
emotions in teenagers life. They guide them at every stage and help them in making effective
decisions. After, family members, teachers and peer members influence the life of adults in
emotional development. They not only provide support but also give challenges to them to
increase their understandability level (Lougheed and et.al., 2016). Further, teenagers behaviour is
mostly affected by their colleagues as they are their challengers, friends and colleagued which
understands their problem much better than anyone else. They put an important place in the life
of their colleagues as their mentality, behaviour, aggression and oppositional situations are same.
Adults at this stage are very sensitive and they follow only those which matches with their
mentality level.
The thing which irritates them and make them aggressive is opposing situation or the
condition which hinder their comfort and normal life. They fill with anger and take wrong
decisions when their feelings and vies are affected by others. When situations are not under their
control they become depressive and loss self control which causes emotional illness. The
consequences of such situations are very dangerous as they commit suicide or come to violence.
Proper guidance from teachers, parents and colleagues can only control them and aggressive
behaviour (Murphy and et.al., 2017). Undue aggressions and unresolved opposition behaviour
effect life of adults as they are very sensitive and they do wrong things when not guided
properly. They are easily attracted by the things which seems them more easy and attractive.
This will create more problems for them as they lost their concentration from their aims and
targets which will affect their career.
Another thing which affect children and adults behaviour is societal activities. Depressive
and encouraging activities affects their mentality. Their positive events and functions encourages
them to do creative things which helps the society and take effective decisions. On the other
hand depressive activities like social movements for wrong demands adversely affect the life of
adults. They also take more interest in such kind of events and distracts from their actual goal
and targets (Smith, Faulk and Sizer, 2016). This affects their emotional developments and their
career as they lose sympathy and respect like feelings for innocent and non criminal people.

Gender, caste and religion also plays an important role in developing emtions and
manners of teenagers. Highly rich and religious family children consider themselves as most
powerful and they perform the things which are illegal. Additionally, teenagers which belongs to
these king of families always thinks that they are superior to others and have freedom to do
anything without concerning feelings of others (Ullsperger, Nigg and Nikolas, 2016). This kind
of mentality makes them aggressive when their demands are not fulfilled or completed by their
family or common people. Furthermore, gender of adults also affects their emotions. Those
which are male consider them as superior and often harms and disrespect girls and poor people.
Teenagers can be resilience from their behaviour if they were given proper guidance from their
parents and teachers. Further, effective and positive environment also plays an important role in
maintaining their emotions and behaviour.

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