Lecture 7: Moving into Adult Social World Flashcards
homosexual relationships
- 15% US teenagers in early and middle adlescence live through a period of questioning about their sexual attraction
- 5% adolescents identify as gay or lesbians
Ups of teenage romantic relationships
- higher self-esteem
- learn how to function in a relationship
downs in teenage romatic relationships
- are more involved in conflicts
- report more emotional upheaval
- early dating with many partners (problem behavior and less satisfying relationships later)
Risk factors for Perpetrators of Dating Violence
- parents exercise harsh or inconsistent violence
- peers belive it is ok
- lack of sucess in school, etc.
Additional factors for violence in relationships
- verbal aggression: insults, yelling
- physical aggression: pushing, slapping
- severe agression: beating, punching
- murder
depression
pervasive feeling of sadness, irritability, and low self-esteem (5-15% US adolescents)
Risk factors for Adolescents - Depression
- Heredity
- Temperament
- Eliciting events
- Negative belief-systems and self-blame for failure
- family stress
- parents are emotional uninvolved
- parents use of punitive discipline
teenage suicide
- about 1 in 10 US adols attempt
- 1 in 10.000 suceed
common warning of suicide
- threats of suicide
- proccupation with death
- change in eating or sleeping habits
- loss of interest in activities
- marked changes in personality
three components of love (Sternberg)
- passion
- intimacy
- commitment
companionate love
commitment and intimacy
consummate love
commitment, love and passion
fatuos love
passion and commitment
romantic love
intimacy and passion
infatuation
passion
liking
intamacy
empty love
commitment
Divorce (effect on couple)
- ex-parners tend to feel dissapointed
- poeple are unhappy after divorce
divorce (effect on children)
- mothers often get custody of children, but might have to lower their standard of living
- positive affects? -> parents fight less (when divorce as a common solution)
