Parent child relationship and adolescent risk taking behaviour

Adolescence is a period of conversion when the individual changes- physically and psychologically from a child to an adult. It is a period when prompt physiological and psychological changes demand for new social roles to take place. The adolescents, due to these transitions often face a number of perplexity and dilemmas. It is the period when the child moves from dependency to autonomy. It demands sententious adjustment to the physical and social changes. Undoubtedly adolescence represents one of the greatest of these periods of crisis. In fact it is the stage of stress, strain and storm. It brings many ambiguities in life. During this phase one really does not know where he or she stands. It is believed that this uncertainty about one's role causes many conflicts. Adolescence is a stage when young people undergo significant changes of the body, mind and personal amenabilities. Teenagers encounter significant psychological and emotional changes in addition to physical changes. It is a time when many physical, psychological and behavioural transformations happen and when adolescents establish a lot of the habits, behavioural patterns and relationships they will take into their adulthood (Committee on Adolescent Health Care Services and Models of Care for Treatment, 2008). The adolescent period is a stage when the adolescent takes on new aspects and experiment with self-reliance. They seek for integrity; learn to apply values gained in early childhood and build skills that will help them in adulthood (UNICEF, 2002). Youthfulness is a critical period of an individual. This discerning period includes a variety of risk-taking behaviors. Furthermore, a potentially risky behavior for an early adolescent might not be considered as developmentally harmful for a late adolescent. In other words, this period has also different developmental characteristics. Risk-taking behaviors can be regulating and social acceptable to some extent depend upon the type, frequency, and degree of risky behavior. Moreover, empirical evidence points out that young people are more prone to involve in riskybehaviors that have fatal dangers and long-term effects. Furthermore, results of previous studies on adolescent risk taking behavior have suggested that the role of personality and demographic characteristics of adolescents should also be considered in understanding the risk-taking behaviours (Jain & Pasrija, 2014). Teenage is a convoluted but natural process. Both the adolescent and the majority of adults encompassing him/her are unaware of the process itself and its,