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High expectations set by family can add pressure. When the teen is suddenly expected to handle additional responsibilities, they become unable to handle the pressure

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Many teenagers begin to worry about their appearance due to the high expectations set by the society.

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Peer pressure can result in anxiety and fear of failure which leads to unacceptable habits, teenage depression, substance abuse, getting into trouble with the law.

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Teens can come across challenges when connecting with peers and establish those relationships with others.

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Many teenagers today face challenges at home, which can effect their behavior at school.

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Today, teenagers are expected by the people they are surrounded by to have a certain taste in music or sport. They are pressured into living a life shaped by someone else rather than living their own.

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Teens can have trouble connecting with their peers which can lead to problems making connections with others at later points in life.

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Researchers believe the teenagers inability to adjust their behavior may explain why they’ll continue to make inappropriate jokes long after their friends stopped laughing. Therefore teenagers cannot control their temptations at all times since they are still immature and follow along with what their friends do

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Often times teens are influenced not only by their peers but mostly of their past. A troubled childhood can lead to compulsive rebellious behavior as a teenager due to the fact that they think of themselves as isolated. In their eyes no one knows or experienced what happened to them.

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Teenagers can struggle connecting and socializing with others, which makes relationships and friendships more difficult to establish and maintain. Teenagers can also be too dependent on their peers, which could lead them to take bad influence from their peers.

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Due to a teens inability to express themselves in an appropriate manner, there reactions are often impulsive.

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Teenage stress increases with school work and as they move higher, a number of projects to be done, and tests to cope up with.

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Teens who start off as a young child with issues speaking and connecting to others have a likely chance of having difficulties as they get into adulthood connecting with peers to make a future for themselves.

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The physical side of adolescence leads to major changes in appearance for most teens. Though most teens learn to accept this change and become more mature, there are some who struggle to cope with their changing bodies. They cling to their childish behavior, acting out of place to cover the depression that is tearing them apart.

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Maturity AND Social Struggle - Body Image

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Maturity AND Social Struggle - Body Image

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Social: Teenagers have an intense desire to be accepted socially. This is why we conform to the "norms" of today's society.
Maturity: Many teenagers face insecurity and the inability to accept themselves for who they are. Body image issues will begin in adolescence and may continue throughout life.

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Teens have a tough time expressing themselves in a mature behavior.

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When given an award, teens will often continue to carry out that action. Even if this action no longer benefits them, they will persist.

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Teens who struggle to form connections with their peers during adolescent years tend to have the same problem during adulthood

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Sometimes parents expect their teens to excel in academics, and to get good grades in their classes.  Thus causing anxiety and fear of failure-Struggle with maturing.

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Teens who struggle to connect with others at a young age usually have a harder time building relationships with people in the future, this affects their social standpoint making it harder to communicate with their peers.

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Teens can not fight temptation. In a test that was given to teens to find a ring for a cash reward in a computer program were able to find it easily, but when they were told to find a diamond and not receive a cash reward they were unable to do so because it was less appealing to their undeveloped brain's restraint.

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Teens who have trouble communicating with their peers often have weaker relationships in the future

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Social: Teens with access to negativity online can be pressured to make impulsive decisions and give in to peer pressure.
Maturity: Teens have difficulty following directions and accomplishing tasks without being rewarded.

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Teens who cannot build friendships and relationships have a continuing trouble when they are older (Substance abuse, relationship disagreements).

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Teens Social Struggle Can Last Into Adulthood

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Teens Social Struggle Can Last Into Adulthood

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Those who can not build strong relationships with peers as teenagers often struggle to build relationships as adults

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Teens who have trouble with establishing their own sense of individuality tend to become problematic. In some cases, this struggle to obtain social acceptance can lead to select teens began relying on alcohol and illegal substances in order to cope with this lack of independence.

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Teens react often with anger and fury. They can’t seem to control negative emotions.