Egocentricism Theory

Traditionally egocentricism theory has been the source of intuition for describing many characteristics of adolescent behavior. According to Elkind (1967), differential failure or egocentricism is the distinguishing failure of an adolescent to correctly conclude nature of object from another’s attention. Egocentricism occurs as a result of formal operational stage of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development because adolescents cannot differentiate oneself thoughts, ideas and beliefs from others. Egocentricism exists in young children (Jean Piaget 1896-1980).Young adolescents falsify reality in an abundance of assimilation of cognitive activity overcoming the actual and real with the possible and ideal (Lapsley, in press a).Adolescents egocentricism

Opposite to omnipotence, invulnerability links with the uniqueness, delinquent and risk behaviors mostly prevail in girls than boys and also relates with the suicidal ideation and depression (and it increases with age) (depression (Aalsma et al., 2006).research conducted in Australia revealed that personal fable in combination with the transtheoratical model can be used to study smoking and implications/ significance for smoking cessation/ceasing. Results shows that personal fable really plays an significant role to cease the smoking and researchers should reevaluate the constructs to know that whether omnipotence would become stronger after the cessation of smoking .at the end, personal fable may be better to conceptualized including both maladaptive and adaptive beliefs (Bright, S. J.; McKillop, D.; Ryder, D., 2008). Child rearing can be held by using a psychological construct of parenting styles which represent standard strategies. Instead of spending a quantity of time with the child while busy in other activities rejecting the child is not beneficial but quality of time spent by the parent with the child matters in development of child. Representations of parenting styles are the ways of demands and response of parents towards

Likewise, study conducted on Asian adolescents by Ang (2006) concluded that authoritative father provides strength to their adolescent’s self reliance in the problem solving, coping and hard work in achieving academic goals. A child centered approach characterizes authoritative parenting hold