It is said that Teenagers are the most stressed people compared to seniors and adults. Do you agree?

Question

I was seeing a program and it states that most teen's are stressed or evan more stressed out then an adult or senior. I'm doing a project and interviewed teens asking them what could possibly make them stressed out....I mean they only need to worry about school right? most teens say that school is tremdous amount of work. Tests that decideds whether they graduate or not such as FCAT, SAT, City Wide Tests ect... just add more. Many have jobs after school. They state that they have to go through all of that and peer pressure and not to mention puberty. All in all, they need to worry about their future (jobs, collages, family), and are in a position when their bodies are...well you know. Do you agree or believe that they are just exagerating? You opinion is important

Answer 1

And we have have extracurricular activities on top of all of that. I think we are the most stressed out people because we are doing so much because we have so many decisions to make about our everyday lives and Lord knows test scores are killing me and i'm trying to square away everything to go to college among so many other things. To me, there's more of a decision making process than there is for a senior citizen or even a working adult because a senior citizen is kind of sitting back and always reminiscing on the past and what they did and adults have pretty much that same schedule to go by unless something major happened that would throw them off for some reason. So much is expected from us. I'm one of many teens across the globe who experience many of these stress factors and tries their best everyday to live through them!!! Exhilarating, but fun!!

Answer 2

I think it's because once you become an adult with responsibilities like a job (that you cannot make it without), mortgage, car payments, children, etc. being a teenager DOES seem like a stress free life. Teens have a different kind of stress than you have when you're an adult. When you're a teenager nobody really depends on you, you get to have a lot more fun and you have your whole life ahead of you. Once you have to worry about your house getting foreclosed on, bill collectors calling, your kids getting sick, paying doctor bills, things like nice clothes, and bad hair days pale in comparison. Most adults really don't think that teens live stress-free lives, it's just that adult stress is alot less drama and alot more real-life. Not much has changed (as many of you think) school was hard on us too, it's just that now, with what we have to deal with high school with all its pressures seems way easier than it did back then. If someone could let me take an algebra mid-term to pay for my kids college education I would jump at the chance ;)

Answer 3

Well, you could argue that it's not that teens have more be stressed about- their lives are pretty simple in comparison to adults. But you can also point out that most teens have much worse stress cooping skills than adults. My life has only gotten more involved and stressful as I've gotten older- but with that, I've gotten better at not letting the stress effect me. Teens may have a little stress, but most don't know how to get rid of it in a way that doesn't create even more stress.

Answer 4

I am become an elementary teacher. I have worked with a lot of kids since I was in junior high. Also going through alot of stress I always found myself turning to people I thought I could trust but in the end, just got used.

Anyways...

During teenage years, a teenager is finding out who they are, what they want to do with their life, and trying to make dicisions that they think are the right ones to make. When sometimes the right choices have led to prision because they were brought up in a home that had a lot of violence and that is all that they know.

Being a teenager you have a lot of media telling you what is in and what is out. What people your own age are doing and what you should be doing and not doing at your age. If you do something wrong you become part of the labeled society(depending on what you did wrong). With a lot of excusses people come up with now adays, teenagers are always making the excusses fit their problems and issues so they either don't have to deal with them, or force someone to deal with their issues.

The media shows and persaudes them what kind of clothes they should be waring, what kid of people to hang out with, what age it is exaceptable to have sex along with wether to use protect because the female is on a pill or they have the lastest development out and no one needs to ware pertection because the latest(nueva ring) is something you only have to insert every month, also the media is telling a teenager what is acceptable and what is not.

With that said, there is always an endless amount of resources it is just picking the right resource and running with it.

Answer 5

May be, but if that's case high stress will come from something other than college entrance or mean kids. Something like having to take care of adults &kids in family and going to school. Or having to see some kid get shot in school.

I would say in general teens face less stress, but this is something that one could relate to issues with growing gap between poor and rich which effects both young and old. As number of poor increase one is likely to say more teens are more stressed then ever, but same time adults are more stressed too.

But SAT, college and friends are not something that can be compared to adversities adults face like emergency medical issues that might wipe out savings, loss of job and having family, figuring out ways to pay for prescription medicine without going hungry...etc. And adults do work lot of hours. It's not like when you graduate money just flows in without any work.

You have to remember if teens screw up most will have a home to go to, but for adults, if they screw up, it can mean an entire family living on streets. Theres more pressure on adults even if kids have high expectations.

One have to also consider that that adults are better at dealing with stress. So, it may be that teens have less stress in their life, but its effect is greater because they havn't learn to deal with stress as with adults who are much older and wiser.

Answer 6

No I do not agree. I know it's harder to be a teenager now then it was in my day, but, I remember the stress of being a teen and as a thirty something parent, the stress I experience now is much worse than I experienced as a teen.

Answer 7

Well, of course they are stressed.

All those raging hormones, tests, jobs, extra-curricular stuff, girlfriends/boyfriends... it gets complicated.

An adult or senior is usually in routine with their day to day life. However hectic it may be.

But teens are just coming into it all--learning how to balance everything out accordingly.

Answer 8

Stress is all about how you handle the situations you are put in. Teens have the least amount of serious issues to stress over. I think that teens have a harder time rationalizing their problems and therefore have more stress. So yes i agree that teens are more stressed, but not because they have more problems.

Answer 9

i guess it might be the most stressing period of our lives. i never actually realized that until i have read your question :). but when it comes to me, im always positive and take everything easy. its been a while since i have beem seriously stressed out (im not smoking anything, if thats what youre thinking lol)

Answer 10

Heck yeah I agree. Even though my life sucks now, i would never go back to being a teenager! Those kids are CRAZY with all their hormones and whatnot