[On social adaptation in adolescence (author's transl)]

In adolescence problems of social adaptation are characterized by a particular urgency because the adolescent is taking on new social roles which involve various new social demands. A feature of maladaptation seems to be the reported growing number of ill apprentices who are absent of work. This work-absentism is seen in connection with research into social and psychosocial factors found to occur close in time to the onset of illness in man. By making use of the Social Readjustment Rating Scale (developed by Holmes and Rahe) the paper gives an impression how to measure juvenile social adaptation. The paper is finished with general recommendations to promote juvenile social adaptability.