A Study on problems faced by adolescents during COVID – 19 lockdown

Abstract

WHO defines adolescents as individuals in 10 – 19 years of age group. It is a period of multiple transitions involving in many aspects from living circumstance which changes view, opinion, and perception among adolescents and ultimately effects their behaviour. They mostly have strong need for their privacy during stay-at-home orders or lockdown and parents should respect their space. Hangouts, sports, events may hit hard because interest of adolescents scattered in those. Social distancing and interruption of school/ college routines can be especially challenging for them. When parents impose too much stuff on them, they may experience some reluctance from adolescents. This is a situation where parents may not have control in many ways. Managing adolescents during such situation sometimes becomes a critical task for parents and equally difficult for the children to handle individually. Engaging they with some or the other activities can help them but these activities should be of their interest so that they try engaging themselves into such activities and keep themselves occupied from getting diverted. Situations of such kind are sometimes known but sometime unknown to both individual and parents of the individual. The study is concerned with the problems faced by adolescents during lockdown and to understand how lockdown is hard and necessary for adolescents.