Concerns of Contemporary Adolescents RICHARD SCHMUCK

Chesler, Ronald Lippitt, and Patricia Schmuck for their helpful criticisms of an earlier draft of this paper. N THIS PAPER, I will emphasize problems as seen by working and I middle class adolescents with considerable economic security, little anxiety about survival, and generally healthy personalities. Youngsters of the working and middle-classes, though generally contented, healthy, and competent, do have realistic concerns which often keep them from fully realizing themselves intellectually and socially. These concerns are not focused on the tangible and the