The role of communication in the search for identity in the adolescent stage. Adolescence: Identity and Communication

Abstract

In the following paper we will analyze a phenomenon which may occur during adolescence, and which we will name "An adolescence without the presence of others", where an adolescent, from time to time, tends to visualize oneself in a fierce and dynamic struggle to obtain one's selfsufficiency, identity, autonomy and individuality. During this process one seems to experimence isolation, or rather, separation from it's primary contexts. In this difficult moments the adolescents are under a lot of pressure, which, in turn, it is manifested in loneliness, a life without a cause and a growth of oneself which is not supported by any members of an adolescent's surrounding (parents, friends). A wish of loneliness and helplessness might be created within oneself. In this particular period of life, the means of communication strive to take a special place. Apart from that, there are other components and/or factors which will be described in this paper done with the sole purpose for the co - urban zone of Veracruz and Boca del Rio. It is based on the methodological factors elaborated which were conducted in a project entitled: "Media and Health: the voice of the Adolescents".