Identity, Social Support and Attitudes Towards Health with Adolescents

Abstract

Chapter is devoted to identity, social support and attitudes towards health with adolescents. The chapter presents selected aspects of development of adolescents with the stress on identity, social support and attitudes to health of adolescents. The period of adolescence is the most important developmental stage, which can be characterized as a temporary stage between childhood and adulthood. The chapter concludes also some research studies that observe selected areas, and that form not only theoretically known picture of what an adolescent look like, but also they point at new progress of experiencing, attitudes and behaviour of adolescents. Here we notice the influence of changes in the whole society, pressure of marketing strategies focused on adolescents, specifically in the areas that have profound effect on lifestyle of adolescents with the use of new information technologies.