The Factors of Adolescent Behavior as Defined by Aloe Blacc’s Song, “Love is the Answer”
“Love is the answer/ It’s the only thing that everybody needs” –A. Blacc
The presence of love plays a distinct role on society. The amount of compassion and support given greatly affects an individual’s outcome in life. The story told in Aloe Blacc’s music video “Love Is The Answer” centers on two teenage brothers who become separated after their parents’ divorce. With each son residing with one parent, the video shows a contrast of the lives of the boys. The message of the video suggests that family life, social environments, and love are factors of adolescent behavior. The music video uses imagery, videography techniques, and lyrics to convey its
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The video also captures scenes of the father’s son attending a good school. The neatly maintained lockers and hallways, student computers, football field, and suburbia-looking teenagers conveys the thought that he has a quality education that perhaps teaches moral ethics to their students. This son is also seen dedicating himself to football. The scenes highlight his passion and hard work as he is seen practicing on the football field. The second son’s quality of life is not the same as his brother’s. His mother is rarely seen in the music video. She only makes one appearance with her son. Her short appearance shows her yelling at him as he lies on the couch, holding a football. This son attends a school with damaged lockers and enters a classroom that appears to be a rundown portable building. Most of the students have rebellious looks on their faces and show no interest in their education. He spends his free time gambling and drinking with rebellious people.
The contrast in the lifestyles of the two brothers suggests that the factors of behavior vary in each situation. “Although social behavior is learned by youth through a variety of sources, including peers, school, the family and the neighborhood, it is the family that is the single most important influence on youth socialization” (Donegan 1996). Both sons are highly influenced by the parent they live with. Judging by the stern facial expressions seen on the mother’s son throughout
Generally, families are considered to be the primary factors in socialization. The impact of family in juvenile delinquency has been theorized and investigated for many decades being that crime commonly runs in families. Parental criminality is one of the most vigorous and most consistent conjectures of a child's delinquency (Greene & Gabbidon, 2009, p. 281).
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An estimated 20 people per minute in the United States are abused by an intimate partner each year (Breiding et al., 2014). Many reasons have been identified that prevent women from leaving and remaining out of abusive relationships. Such factors include economic, religious, cultural, and psychological (.e.g. fear, learned helplessness, self-esteem). Yet, there has been very limited research that examines the neurocognitive issues that influences a woman’s decision return to abusive situations, despite opportunities and resources to leave. The following study will explore possible implications of addictive behavior towards abusive situations in battered women— due to neurocognitive dysfunction. We hypothesized that battered women will present with decision making impairment similar to persons with substance dependency and other addictions. Findings will shed light on the need to develop more comprehensive prevention and intervention measures to decrease the number of women who return to abusive situations.
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Y. Cho _ O.-B. Chung (&) Department of Home Economics Education, Korea University, An investigation on the relationship between conformative peer bullying and issues of peer conformity among adolescents. Anam-dong Seongbuk-Gu, Seoul 136-701, Korea.
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Adolescent risky behaviors have been discussed for more than a century. In the storm and stress view introduced by Hall (1904), three key elements are conflicts with parents, mood disruptions, and risk behaviors. It is widely agreed that adolescents are more likely to commit risky behaviors than both adults and children. Arnett (1999) stated that adolescents have higher rates of reckless, norm-breaking, and antisocial behavior than either children or adults, and they are more likely to cause disruptions of the social order and to engage in behavior that carries the potential for harm to themselves and/or the people around them. Moffitt (1993) used the theory of adolescence-limited antisocial behaviors and life-course persistent antisocial
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From a sociological perspective the reason for why an adolescent is involved in delinquent behavior is because they lack the attachment to the parents. Certainly, Hirschi theory involves other three components to social theory and of course they play a role towards the delinquent behavior. An adolescent just doesn’t act upon a delinquent behavior without having any reason to it. As a child grows up mostly all parents help aid their child to follow into a good path. Not everyone is so fortunate to be given that help. Some children lack the guidance to behave in a positive way. Not having someone to guide them in way to do good in school and life can have certain consequences like being involved in delinquent behavior. They would think that no one cares in what their involved. At the same time they may be around peers that are not a good influence on them. Not to mention, adolescents go through a phase where they intend to misbehave. This certainly, contributes to them getting involved in delinquent behavior. Teens are usually hanging out together with friends and at time get peer pressure to do stuff that isn’t good. If, they have someone to guide them in the direction in not being involved in that type of activity is good both for the parent and child.
Adolescence is an interesting stage of development and is the fifth stage of Erikson stages of development .According to Erikson adolescence is a time of searching for one’s own identity and developing a sense of autonomy. Trying on different “selves” is a common mental and behavioral activity of adolescents who are in the process of developing an internally anchored sense of who they are, rather than defining themselves by what others think or expect of them including their parents (Erikson, 1968). Many normal and well behaved adolescents can be quite dramatic, impulsive and egocentric in their behavior, but a depressed adolescent who is impulsive and dramatic can be dangerous. The three journals reviewed explain the impact of psychosocial factors that affects adolescent’s behavior both on an individual and on a broader societal level, and psychosocial environmental risk factors for suicide attempts in adolescents. Identity crisis is a necessary turning point, a crucial moment, when development must move one way or another, marshaling resources of growth, recovery, and further differentiation (Erikson 1968). In these articles certain factors around the children that can influence this crisis in a positive or negative way were properly analyzed. Factors considered were abusive experiences in childhood, which contribute to identity crisis and requires social support. Parental support was mentioned in all the articles; this shows that