INFLUENCE OF TYPE OF SCHOOL, HOME ENVIRONMENT, GRADE AND GENDER ON EMOTIONAL MATURITY OF ADOLESCENTS. - Softcover

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"Adolescence" comes from the Latin word meaning "to grow to maturity". Adolescence is a very important period in one's life as one go through many changes. Physical as well as mental, which have short term and long term effects. Adolescence is a time of physical, social and emotional growth and change. Adolescence, the developmental stage between childhood and adulthood is a critical period. It is a time of profound changes and occasionally, turmoil, considerable biological change occurs as adolescents attain sexual and physical maturity. At the same time, these physiological changes are revealed by important social, emotional and cognitive changes that occur as adolescents strive for independence and move toward adulthood. The period at which maturation of the sexual organs occurs begins at about age 11 or 12 for girls and 13 or 14 for boys.

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