Globalization of teens - Abstract - Society for Research on Adolescence study - Brief Article

School Administrator, May, 2003

Globalization is shifting the role of adolescence and the expectations teenagers face, according to a new study by the Society for Research on Adolescence,

Researchers Reed W. Larson, B. Bradford Brown and Jeylan T. Mortimer found the age defining the beginning of adulthood is being pushed back in both industrial and developing nations to accommodate the need for longer schooling to become full members of a global society.

Adolescence should not be seen as a problem, the researchers said, but rather as an opportunity. They found that younger generations fill a wide variety of community service needs and stressed the importance of support systems, early job preparation and health care services to capitalize on the growing responsibilities assumed by adolescents.

A copy of their study is available through the society's website at www.s-r-a.org/studygroup.html.>

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