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Would it be safe to say that Self-awareness in theaters is not as recognized as it should be. If that's so what can be do and how would you say if it is or not (68.45.234.36 (talk) 01:10, 28 September 2013 (UTC))

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== Self-Awareness in Adolescents ==

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Before going into self-awareness in adolescents there are a few terms that must be stated that fit and help you to really understand just what self-awareness is. They are self-esteem, self -concept and self representation. Let’s start with self-esteem this term is used in psychology to reflect person's overall emotional evaluation of his or her own worth. It is a judgment of oneself as well as an attitude toward their self (Wikipedia). Self-concept is the idea that you have about the kind of person you are, and the mental image one has of oneself according to Webster. Self representation is how you represent yourself in public and around others. Last is adolescent (teenager) and that is a person between the ages of 13 and 19 according to the dictionary. (Free Dictionary).

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Self-awareness in adolescent is when they are becoming conscious of their emotions. Most children by the age to two are aware of emotions such as shame, guilt, pride and embarrassment (Zeanah,84). But they do not fully understand how those emotions affect their life. By time they become thirteen they are really starting to understand how those emotions have an impact on their lives. Although they are going through puberty they really get to understand and really get in touch with their emotions. The emotions that flow through them at the time they make decisions are not always good and that is part of what makes adults believe they are confused, but they really are not.

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Harter did a study of adolescents and in the study it found that adolescents (teenagers) are happy and like themselves when around their friends. But when around their parents they feel sad, mad and depressed and when it comes to pleasing them they feel hopeless because what they get from their parents is they can do nothing right. However it was also shown that when at school and around their teachers they felt intelligent and creative. But when around people they do not know they are shy, uncomfortable and nervous (60). This tells you a little bit of how they understand and show their emotions. This may also assist in making outsiders believe adolescents are confused, but they really are not confused they are just going through a lot at that time. The way they respond during the situation is just how they truly felt at that time during that situation. What needs to be realized is that they are in the process of learning to get their emotions together in under control. As adults you have already learned this therefore they should be a little more understanding to what the adolescents are going through. Although they are adolescents they know what they are doing and that’s why they follow two roles. One role is responsible and the other role is the irresponsible and it depends on who they are with to determine which role they are going to be in. When they are around teachers, parents and sometime people they do not know they play the responsible role but when around the oppose sex, friends and enemies they play the irresponsible roles (Harter,89). The responsible role is when they are dependable and you know they will make good decisions on their own. When they act in a reliable way and do things to make you pride of them. The irresponsible role is the opposite of responsible, when they are not trust worthy, they do everything you tell them not to do and should not be on their own because they may do something to get into trouble.

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A important thing to remember is that when they are growing it is important for the people around them to encourage them to feel good about whom they are. This helps to build a strong feeling of self-awareness. When they do not have a strong feeling it can cause them to have a low self-esteem problem. With that it can cause problems like body image problems which could lead to eating disorders like bulimia, it could also cause them to have to deal with a lot of the issue that go along with low self-esteem. Some girls who have low self-esteem will do things just to fit in with the crowd. They could become sexually active before they are ready and have many partners just so others would like them at that time. They could get started using drugs or do harm to them self all because they don’t feel like anyone cared. When they have low self-esteems you can tell because there will have signs. Some signs are low grades in school, not making friends easily and not wanting to try new things.

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When girls are comfortable with their self-awareness they will have high self-esteem. They will not follow others and will be more of the leaders but if they do follow they will only go so far. Therefore they will not do things that will get them into trouble or jeopardize their future. That’s because they care about what their family, friends and teachers think about them. In other words she will not do things she’s not comfortable with just to please others. She will do what she sees to be right and be ok with the decisions she makes. That’s why self-awareness is very important in the growth of adolescent (teenagers) and there surrounding adults should started to build it up as young as the age of two years old. So once all the emotions really start to kick in they will have a good base built already therefore they will just continue to build on it. They will be independent but will be able to handle it and handle it the right way. Most girls that have high self- esteem it will show in their grades in school, they get involved in sports and other activity’s and they can make friends easily. The girls with high self–esteem will always be willing to try new things but on top of it all they want to make something of themselves. Dionneba (talk) 03:56, 7 December 2013 (UTC)