> What predicts more trouble-making? Adolescent behavior (and misbehavior) is related to key social relationships and socialization styles. More specifically, cross-cultural research finds adolescents are more likely to misbehave in societies that have more severe punishment, more restrictiveness, and more distant mother-child relationships (summarized in Ember, Pitek, and Ringen 2017).
Teenagers go through puberty because biologically they are now ready to have children, and evolution has favored those with very strong such urges.
In cultures where having babies at 14 is completely out of the question, teens rebel!