Creativity self-Concept Achievement Motivation of Adolescents Vol.I

Each period of human development brings with it new competency requirements challenges and opportunities for personal growth. Different periods of life present certain prototypic challenges and competency demands for successful functioning. There are many pathways through life and at any given period people vary substantially in how successfully they manage their lives in the milieus in which they are immersed. The child on his way to be-coming an adult during adolescence learns the tasks of adulthood and forms an identity for him-self. Adolescence is a process rather than a period of achieving the desired growthattitude beliefs and methods for effective participation in society as an emerging adult.The way in which adolescents develop and exercise their personal efficacy during this transitional period can play a key role in setting the course their life paths take. Adolescents have to manage major biological educational and social role transitions con-currently.