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2. Adolescent
Hornby as stated in Oxford Sixth Advanced Learners’ Dictionary of Current English defines adolescent as a young person who is developing from a
child into an adult 18. Furthermore, Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia defines adolescence as a transitional stage of physical and mental human development
that occurs between childhood and adulthood. According to the World Health Organization WHO, adolescence covers the period of life between 10 and 20
years of age. The transitional stage mentioned above involves biological i.e.
pubertal, social, and psychological changes. Furthermore, it is explained that adolescence represents the period of time during which a person experiences a
variety of biological changes and encounters a number of emotional issues. The end of adolescence and the beginning of adulthood varies by country as well as by
function, as even within a single country there will be different ages at which an individual is considered mature enough to be entrusted with particular tasks, such
as driving a vehicle, having sexual relations, serving in the armed forces, voting, or marrying.
In this study, adolescent refers to a young person who is experiencing such kind of transitional period from a child into an adult. Lots of changes in
physical, mental and emotional normally occur during this age, which in fact lead to many personal and social problems, as revealed in Luke, the figure of an
adolescent in common.
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3. Self Image
According to an online article, self image deals with how we see ourselves. This may be how we see ourselves physically or our opinion of who
and what we are, which is normally called self concept. It should be noted that there are several things contained in self image, including what we think we look
like, how we see our personality, what kind of person we think we are, what we believe others think of us, how much we like ourselves or we think others like us,
and the status we feel we have Perera. Self image is strongly related to self esteem. The article defines self
esteem as how we feel about ourselves. They are closely connected because if we have a poor opinion of ourselves, our self esteem will be low as well.
In this study, thus, self image is seen as the way someone perceives hisher self in many different aspects, either physical look or personality. Self
image, in many ways, determines one’s psychological life particularly towards one’s self esteem. It eventually influences the way someone thinks, speaks and
behaves. There are many factors affect one’s self image, one of which is social pressure, which can be found in the case of Luke.
4. Psychological Life
In order to understand the definition of psychological life, it seems better to firstly break down the phrase and get the meaning of each word.
Psychology as the science of mind, sometimes as the science of behavior. It
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