Puberty changes more than bodies. Children learn what these changes mean through culture, relationships, and social ...

Identity development during adolescence and emerging adulthood encompasses the processes by which individuals explore, commit to and integrate values, beliefs and roles to form a coherent sense of ...

Adolescence feels like a full-body, full-mind upheaval. It is when young people begin to wrestle with the profound question: Who am I? That is a foundational issue. Moreover, the answer does not ...

Researchers from Kyushu University discovered a previously unrecognized synaptic "hotspot" that forms during adolescence, challenging the long-held view that adolescent brain development was dominated ...

The school‐to‐work transition presents a crucial period in young adults' identity development, during which the formation of a job identity becomes a key developmental task. However, job identity ...

In an article published in the journal Nature Reviews Psychology, researchers in Germany and the United Kingdom described the mechanisms through which social media might influence behavioral, ...

This image shows densely accumulated dendritic spines. Researchers from Kyushu University discovered a previously unrecognized synaptic “hotspot” that forms during adolescence, challenging the ...