Abstract
Experts believe that adolescence is more challenging than childhood and is of critical importance. It is the period when the youth must be able to seek a philosophy for life and find an identity. Unfortunately nowadays most youths cannot learn developmental tasks successfully. The present descriptive study aims to identify pathological social-behavioral disorders and their impact on students' underachievement. The sample of the study consisted of 480 students aged between 12 and 17. Instrument of collecting data was a researcher-made likert-like questionnaire with 53 items, 15 positive and 38 negative. The face validity of the questionnaire was calculated with the Agreement coefficient formula. After calculating the consensus opinion of 20 experts, the questions whose coefficient of agreement was less than 70% were eliminated. Its reliability was also calculated as 85%, using Cronbach alpha coefficient. Results showed that the rate of disorders in both male and female students will be equal if the overall level of disorders is considered separately. However, when a certain kind of disorder is considered, some differences are visible in both groups. Disorders include incompatibility, irritability, risk acceptance, indecisiveness, irresponsibility, feeling guilty, lack of trust in others, disrespect for authorities. The impact of these disorders on underachievement is more significant in girls than that of boys.
Highlights
Adolescence is the time for rapid physical, sexual, psychological, cognitive and social changes
Adolescents ' relationship with their parents gets weaker in this period, peers may play a critical role on their mental development and pave the way for them to learn social skills, controlling behavior, share what they feel and discuss their problem [1]. This coincides with global changes as well as technological processes, the new forms of cultural challenge, which pave the way for increasing the so-called generation gap leading to conflicts between generations that some values have become counter values as a result of lack of a clear-cut definition, and some counter values have become values leading to some behavioral deviations in this age group
That is the difference between scores of behavioral disorders was not statistically significant, and there was no significant difference in the rate of these disorders between secondary school boys and girls
Summary
Adolescence is the time for rapid physical, sexual, psychological, cognitive and social changes. Adolescents ' relationship with their parents gets weaker in this period, peers may play a critical role on their mental development and pave the way for them to learn social skills, controlling behavior, share what they feel and discuss their problem [1]. This coincides with global changes as well as technological processes, the new forms of cultural challenge, which pave the way for increasing the so-called generation gap leading to conflicts between generations that some values have become counter values as a result of lack of a clear-cut definition, and some counter values have become values leading to some behavioral deviations in this age group.
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