1. What are the differences between identity achievement and role confusion?

2. What role do parents play in religious and political identity?

3. What are the pros and cons of teens having part-time jobs while in school?

4. In what crucial way do the terms “sexual identity” and “gender identity” differ?

5. What are the roles of parents, peers, and society in helping an adolescent develop an ethnic identity?

6. Why do parents and adolescents often bicker?

7. What four factors affect family closeness? Why is each factor important?

8. How and when can peer pressure be helpful and how can it be harmful?

9. What evidence is there that teenagers today are sexually healthier than teenagers a few decades ago?

10. What are Dunphy’s four stages of male–female relationships?

11. What factors influence sexual activity? Explain.

12. What risks are associated with teenage pregnancy, for both the mother and the child?

13. Why is it harmful for a young adolescent and an adult to have sex?

14. Among sexually active people, why do adolescents have more STIs than adults?

15. In terms of learning about sex from parents, what seems to be the most influential factor?

16. Why might peers be an unreliable source of information about sex?

17. Why is it difficult to know what influence the media has on adolescents having sex?

18. What are the variations in sex education in schools, and how does this affect adolescent sexual behaviour?

19. What gender differences are evident in depression, and why?

20. What gender differences are evident in suicide, and why?

21. What factors make serious delinquency more likely, and what factors decrease the risk?

22. What variations in adolescent drug use are evident? Why?

23. Why are psychoactive drugs particularly destructive in adolescence?

24. What works and does not work in reducing adolescent drug use?