Identity in adolescence within the framework of today: The adolescent transition and its link to the contemporary social context

The research work aims to study the peculiarities of adolescence considering this primordial evolutionary stage because significant modifications in individuals would be carried out there. Likewise, it would take into account in the unfolding of puberty, a new appreciation of the body with an opportunity to think, question and re-elaborate aspects linked to oneself, parents and friends, among other important figures, admitting to experience feelings never before explored according to the remembrance of childhood together with new meanings. On the other hand, this time would allow, gradually, to be detached from the family bosom as well as, favored by the identification, to be delimiting styles, idioms, expressions in order to investigate and constitute the identity. Nevertheless, in the conformation of individuality, the strong incidence of the present time should be emphasized with its customs, fashions, valuations, which would signify the young people at the time of thinking about their tastes, forms of linking with people, styles of accessing satisfaction, as well as exploring sexuality.