In analysing many developmental variations in adolescents it was realised that the principal novel formation in early adolescence - the feeling of personal aduthood as well as the feeling of social adulthood is due to:
- A different, adult-like pattern of the adolescent's relationships with grow-adolescents.
- The changing of comradeship into a sphere of special subjective significance.
- The information of a new type of activity, aimed toward another person, a friend.
Adulthood and the feeling of adulthood in adolescents take shape in the context of their relationships with the people around them, based on the adult-like communication pattern, in the course of and due to the adoption of certain moral requirements, standarts and rules of behaviour attributable to adult conduct. The adolescent is prepared to adopt the adult morality and to reject that of children, which was previously characteristic for him. Conflicts in adolescent's relationships with grown-ups are a manifestation of both a destructive process in the adolescent's earlier pattern based of communication and the formation of a new pattern based on his relative equality in certain spheres of life.
The process of the development of personality and adulthood in adolescence can be guided on the principle that moral responsibilities, standarts and ideals do not take the form of very general requirements of the adolescent's behaviour, but form instead the foundation for his relationships with grown-ups and fellow-adolescents.
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