In recent years, we have come across more young people who are of working age, but do not prefer to work and continue to live in their parents' homes, compared to the past. These young people do not enter the working life in the most productive times of their lives and at the same time they do not continue their education life. The majority of the young people we are talking about have a narrow social circle and limited recreational areas. This group, which we call “home youth” in Turkish, is referred to with the concept of “NEET” in English.
The concept of NEET, which welcomes young people we call home youth, was first mentioned in England in the 1990s. . Then, as it has become a phenomenon experienced in many countries around the world, it emerges as a global issue rather than a social one.
What is a Home Teen?
Youth at home is a term used for young people in the 18-24 age group who do not work for various reasons, but do not continue their education or continue their education only for hobby purposes. These young people are not looking for a job, they are very selective about work or they do not evaluate possible job opportunities. This causes youngsters to be physically and morally inseparable from their parents, making them dependent on their parents in many ways. They also fail to fulfill their duties such as providing financial independence, obtaining a business environment, having serious relationships with the opposite sex, and starting their own family.
Are Home Teens Happy?
p>Youth at home cannot progress in the developmental task stages, as they cannot start the process of obtaining a job, which is one of the main tasks of their age developmental period. As a result of this blockage, they have difficulty in reaching the developmental task stages such as gaining financial independence, making life decisions on their own, being in serious relationships with the opposite sex, and eventually starting a family. In short, this young While climbing the developmental stages, they experience the despair and sadness of not being able to stand on one step and not step on the other steps. All these developmental tasks accumulate over time and grow like an avalanche in the eyes of the youngsters at home. For example, young people need to act according to the rules of their parents in many matters such as home and departure times, domestic responsibilities and travel. Therefore, feelings such as anger, sadness, helplessness and inadequacy begin to manifest intensely in these young people who cannot use their personal decision mechanisms. Since they do not have goals, they cannot spend their free time, which is quite a lot, in the name of a valuable pursuit. This situation causes feelings such as aimlessness, boredom, boredom, failure and dissatisfaction to be activated in them. For reasons such as these, they often distance themselves from them and acquire new social circles. Young households begin to feel inadequacy intensely when they see that their peers have completed the basic tasks of their age development period. At the same time, it is seen that the feeling of loneliness comes to the fore due to the lack of social support as a result of the distance or living conditions of the youngsters from their peers.
In short, sadness, anxiety, hopelessness, helplessness, inadequacy, failure. While feelings such as loneliness, boredom and reluctance intensify, these young people actually go into a depressive mood as feelings such as success, pleasure, happiness and entertainment decrease. This emotional state can also become unbearable. In fact, it's not hard to see that home teenagers feel quite unhappy under these circumstances.
Why Are Home Teens in This Position?
Training continuing academic career steps� Climbing or gaining economic freedom by finding a job is one of the key developmental tasks of young adulthood. The inability to fulfill basic developmental tasks naturally comes across as a factor that makes young adults unhappy in many ways. This state of unhappiness, on the other hand, reduces the life satisfaction of the young people and leads them to a depressive mood. continues?
First of all, we can explain the main reasons for being a "house teenager" under 7 sub-titles:
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Professional Interest, Talent Inability to Determine the Fields of and Value Correctly
A professional choice is not a result that can be determined by a sudden decision.
Vocational choice is a situation that emerges as a result of the professional development process that is based on the early childhood period in the 0-6 age range and continues afterwards. In order to make the right and healthy career choices, it is necessary for people to realize their interests, abilities and values in accordance with the characteristics of the age development period. development can progress as observing the professions seen in the environment, imagining oneself in these professions, putting these dreams into play and gradually realizing their abilities. Although it is not possible to talk about a realistic career choice until the age of 11, the process of discovering talents, interests and values, along with these trial and error, dreams and games, are important steps in professional development.
In the 11-17 age period As the character development begins to become permanent, more realistic career options can be determined. These vocational options can be evaluated in the form of observing the professionals in the environment, researching the training required by the profession, and examining the personal adaptation to the professional requirements and conditions. Talent areas can be analyzed as a result of feedback from the environment and personal observations. In this period, since the fields of interest, ability and value can now be observed more permanently, learn about the fields of profession. Vocational options can be narrowed in the light of the detailed information provided.
In the age period starting from the age of 18, young people must have made their career choices and started to receive the necessary training for the chosen profession. If they have made the right choices for themselves and have advanced their professional development processes in a healthy way after the vocational training received, these young people are expected to start their careers by finding a job in line with the education they have received.
However, in the professional development process, the expected As a result of not being able to go through the stages for various reasons, problems may arise in self-assessment in a healthy way and in orientation to the right profession. In short, sometimes for various reasons, interests, talents and values cannot be correctly identified and evaluated at the stages of vocational choice, and young people cannot turn to vocational education that will be right for them. For example, a young person who is not interested in mathematics, but who chooses mathematics teaching by not detecting it in time or ignoring it, may not be able to take action when it comes to finding a job and working. As a result, they may be unemployed and return to their parents.
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Insufficiently Developed Awareness of Responsibility and Parental Attitudes
When we examine the characteristics of home youth today, it is observed that one of the common characteristics of these young people is the parental attitudes they are exposed to during their childhood. The parents of these young people are often seen to have overprotective, perfectionist, authoritarian or disinterested attitudes. At this point, the issue of which aspects of parental attitudes can lead to raising home teenagers gains importance. Because these young people are now expected to determine a professional direction and to take concrete steps in this direction, these young people prefer not to take any responsibility in their lives by not taking any steps in terms of education or work. They even put the burden of their own responsibilities on their backs by living with their parents.
However, this heavy burden on the backs of parents. One reason for this is the parental attitudes that they predominantly reflect when raising their young children today. Because it can be said that not taking the necessary responsibilities in young adulthood is actually a result of the interruptions in the development of responsibility consciousness in childhood. It is known that there are aspects that can show and are affected by environmental conditions. Despite this, the awareness of responsibility has a structure that can be gained or blunted with the support of parents. At this point, it may be necessary to learn the acquisition processes of responsibility awareness according to age development periods and to comprehend how it should be supported by parents. However, it is a behavior that needs to be developed with changing areas of responsibility and supported by parents in the following developmental periods. For example, in the 0-6 age period, responsibilities such as choosing, putting on and taking off their own clothes, acquiring toilet habits, providing post-toilet cleaning and tidying their room should be acquired.
expressed as 7-11 years old. In the late childhood period, it is expected to acquire responsibilities such as learning to read and writing and doing homework. In the adolescence period, which covers the 11-18 age period, responsibilities such as following the lessons, supporting the housework, planning the life order and complying with this order should now be followed individually.
Taking responsibility. In order to create awareness, parents need to know what their children's responsibility-taking behaviors are appropriate for their age and developmental periods and to create opportunities for their children to gain these responsibilities. For example, in order for a 0-6 year old child to wash their own hands, their parents should first show them how to wash their hands as a model, then help them wash their hands and gradually withdraw their help. As a result, parents are responsible for their children to fulfill this responsibility individually.
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