Because of this form of social control, religious adolescents who do engage in sexual activity may experience increased cognitive dissonance and psychological distress.

Based on the survey, researchers estimated then, between 15,400 and 41,000 adolescents in New York had experienced severe problems with gambling.

In addition to changes in height, adolescents also experience a significant increase in weight (Marshall, 1978).

The extremes to which adolescents experience an imaginary audience, however, varies from child to child.

There are various reasons as to why adolescents experience egocentrism :

It is widely observed that in areas of Europe where children and adolescents routinely experience alcohol early and with parental approval, binge drinking tends to be less prevalent.

Not all adolescents experience storm and stress, but storm and stress is more likely during adolescence than at other ages.

This is an indicator that adolescents will experience reactance to authoritative control, especially the proscriptions and prescriptions of adult behaviors that they view as hedonically relevant.

Comparable to their adult counterparts, African-American adolescents experience mental health disparities.

According to Erikson as cited by Zanden (1988: 292), the youth specifically, the adolescents or teenagers experience role confusion or identity crisis.