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family, he will be better able to cope with this situation and to compensate its effects. Everyone knows that a caring, affectionate, attentive and supportive environment in childhood creates the basis for a solid attachment throughout life. Children who are firmly attached to their primary caregiver are less likely to exhibit social and behavioral problems, such as aggression and unhealthy relationships with people of the same age. They are more able to control their negative emotional states such as anger.
Alan Sroufe in 1988 in his theory on the origin of attachment already postulated that a solid attachment to parents was linked to the “development in the child of a feeling of self-confidence, efficiency and personal worth as well than various aspects of an intimate personal relationship, including the ability to be emotionally close to a person, to seek and receive care, and to care for others) ”(p. 26).
Conversely, exogenous factors linked to the environment contribute drastically to the problematic development of violence among young people. These include, but are not limited to, parental crime, parental stress, family discord, domestic violence, child abuse and neglect, alcoholism and the presence of psychiatric problems such as depression, living in a neighborhood with high crime rates, the absence of a large social network of friends and relatives from whom children can draw emotional support, and the pervasiveness of violence in the media entertainment and information.
The pivotal period of the adolescent's life is often turned upside down when he has to face his peers. In general in high school, the life of the teenager can change radically undergoing new influences, because the influence exercised until then by the close family, decreases for the simple reason that the adolescent now spends more time often outside the family home, with other young people of his age. The pressure exerted by his peers becomes a predominant factor of this period. Various patterns of thought including timidity and selfishness, constitute this tormented youth in identity conflict.
In the first case, the adolescent often wrongly believes that everyone is watching him, he generally says that the others are as concerned with his actions and gestures as himself. This is what behaviorists have often called the imaginary audience. Sometimes disappointed by the reality and the lack of attention from his peers, or from society, he can sometimes have recourse to extremes, which give way to atrocities such as those which have made the headlines in the United States, like unhealthy exposure in social networks to draw attention to oneself.
The blues mood, of teenagers is much more palpable, in a mercantilist society where everything is for sale, and the competition between members of society is merciless ... rejection linked to the lack of attention and the contempt from others, can often to be fatal. To prove to themselves and to others, some young people choose the most violent way possible. This state of affairs is reinforced by the belief in invulnerability. Teenagers are thus building personal fables to be in the limelight. The high media coverage of killings, creates copycat among young people who sometimes who would like to see everyone talk about them. The star mania of the Western society, where celebrities of the entertainment industry are admired, only add to the envy of the youngster, who wants to carve out a place for himself on the spotlight.
The media's grip on the lives of young people is constantly growing. Research over the past few years has shown that children and teens in the U.S. spend 28 and 23 hours a week watching television, respectively, while they spend the rest of the time, on phone calls, Internet connection, listening to often violent music, and video games, where fictitious violence can turn into reality, the adolescent identifying with the avatar of video games. As a result, there is very little time left for restful sleep or studies… the adolescent thus leached out and groggy by this environment where electronic is omnipresent, with all the harmful radiation especially in this era of the cellular and wireless, is more inclined to crash into a teenage crisis, which in many cases is fatal for him as well as for the members of the society he meets.
Regarding the media, things remain very complicated for adolescents. Program broadcasters who consider them as a phenomenal source of income, do not skimp on the means of taping them longer on the screens, and to consume derivative products. Telemarketing and neuro marketing are working to enslave them with lethal precision.
The latest find from the company Verizon, one of the leaders in TV program distribution in the United States, gives chills in the back, according to this new process, TVs connected to the Verizon network would be able to see what you are doing, and to hear your conversations, to program advertisements targeting your desires.