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Developmental Process for Students this age · Adolescents are making a developmental shift away from their parents approval to getting approval from their peers · This sets them up for being extremely self-conscious, anxious, and therefore hypercritical about other teenagers. Competition among other teenagers is fierce particularly around appearance. · This is backed up by the fact that girls can sometimes have eating disorders, and guys do stupid stuff to try to impress girls, or put an extra emphasis towards fitness and overview their athletic prowess to show off. Some may even take steroids Highly Competitive nature of high schools · Competition for class rank, competition for overemphasis for ap classes, standardized tests, college acceptance… etc · Highly competitive environments predispose people to feel insecure and anxious being judgmental and critical is a symptom of that. Criticism and Social/clique system In High Schools · How people of higher authority or social class tend to judge and look down upon people of lower social class because they feel threatened because of insecurity. If you’re part of an upper class, you may feel like the people below you may think they can catch up or become better so they become critical and criticize others. · People have their groups and these groups are associated with what they wear. We think that if we see someone with uggs and a north face we think snoody rich person. As opposed to someone with their pants down under their butt and oversized shirts we think thug and not a very friendly person Parental/Adult modeling for judgmental/critical about appearance · Kids hear parents criticize other people about the way they act or look. · Parents insist their kids act and look a certain way (a reflection of the family) · Media/Entertainment industry overemphasizes how teenagers look… offers a very narrow body-dieal for girls and boys.