Емаптия и благополучие в юношеска възраст

Abstract

So many challenges in current world lead us to believe that there is a growing gap between generations and their ability to experience and perceive belonging, pro-social behaviour and psychological wellbeing. Without any doubt adolescence holds the key to physical, psychological, moral and emotional development, successful adaptation and ultimately psychological wellbeing. Doing so on one side requires mastering social and emotional skills such as empathy. On the other side technological development and progress has changed the direction and the way people communicate, leading to change in the skills adolescents develop and master in order to belong, be capable and to count. Does this mean that those set of skills will replace others or would that mean they build on each other? Using knowlage of cognitive, moral and emotional development of adolescents and looking at the way adolesents perceive their own wellbeing, the current article aims to present the results of a research of the correlation between the empathy levels and psychological wellbeing in adolescence.