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Abstract
The fundamental subject of this study was the adolescent student in today's secondary school. Adolescence is a period of search for identity. This search is generally not of an organized and systematic nature, but more frequently, is a blind grouping for something the adolescent cannot clearly define. However, the dominant purpose of adolescent behavior is the desire to grow up and be an adult.
In simpler societies, as well as in our own, prior to the time at which the effects of automation became manifest, the adolescent's search for adulthood was somewhat uncomplicated. As Ahlstrom and Havighurst¹ stated, the role of the adult worker could be assumed with relative ease even without a high school diploma. At present, however, this has all changed. Society has become urban; technology has become automated; knowledge of the kind learned in school has become the foremost qualification for the worker's role.
