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f. Adolescence is the state of day dream
Adolescents become imaginative during adolescence.
They think themselves as superior and want their
works appreciated by others. They imagine themselves
as socially prestigious people like doctors, engineers,
lawyers, scientists, professors, etc. They get self-
satisfaction imagining themselves as renowned people
in the society.
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g. Adolescence is the stage of scaring and unhappy
During adolescence, adolescents are very excited and ambitious. They dream of becoming
successful without much efforts. Sometimes, they even imagine something that is
impossible. When they fail, they become unhappy, frustrated and upset.

h. Adolescence is a troublesome stage
Adolescence is age of problems. Adolescents think
they have many problems from family, friends, society
and parents. Very often they get involved into various
activities against social norms values and beliefs. As a
result, the friends, parents, family members and members
of society scold them. Hence, it is a troublesome stage.
Fig: 5
Changes during adolescence

During adolescence, several physical, mental, emotional and social changes take place.
Adolescents have remarkable growth in external and internal organs. They have increase of
mental strength, growth of nerve cells, development of reasoning, logical power, creativity.
Anger, hatred, love, jealousy, selfishness etc emotions are increased and involvement in
social activities are increased. The changes during adolescence are described below.

A. Physical change
A remarkable physical change takes place during adolescence. There are external and
internal physical changes in this period. Increase in height, gain in body weight and
development of body organs are some external physical changes. Similarly, development
of circulatory, digestive, endocrine and respiratory systems and growth of tissues are
some internal physical change that take place during adolescence. The external and
internal physical changes are elaborated below.

a. Change in height
Both boys and girls have marked increase in height. Generally,
girls gain height till(17 – 18) years but boys attain height till
(19 – 20) years. It has been seen that they gain height till (1 – 2)
more years if they have better nutrition and complete dose of
prescribed immunization during childhood.
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