Role Stress and Adolescence

The Chapter Four provides an in-depth understanding of role stress in adolescents with abundant literature review of previous studies that have examined role stress in adolescence. It revealed that role stress has been widely studied in adult samples, yet little attention has been given to exploring the role stress in adolescence. Moreover, predominantly role stress was studied as role overload, role ambiguity, lack of relationship quality or a lack of social support. Few studies have explored the perceptions of adolescents experiencing role stress; that is, the feeling of dissatisfaction with their relationships. Therefore, this research study is significant in addressing the increasing wellbeing concerns reported by adolescents, through contributing to the limited body of knowledge in this field.