Love & Sexuality Flashcards
1
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why adolescents form relationships
A
- recreation; fun, enjoyment
- learning; gaining skills in dating interactions
- status; impressing others
- companionship; sharing pleasurable activities
- intimacy; close emotional relationship
- courtship; steady partner
2
Q
Sternbergs theory of love
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- passion; physical attraction, sexual desire
- intimacy; closeness, emotional attachment
- commitment; pledge to love someone over long run
-> combinations define different kinds of love
3
Q
adolescent love model (Brown) … 4 phases
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- initiation; first step (anxiety, fear, excitement), brief
- status; can confidence in interaction skills, aware of evaluations from friends and peers
- affection; deeper feelings, extensive intimacy, start of commitment, experimentation
- bonding; (emerging adulthood) enduring/serious, discuss lifelong commitment
-> phases get shorter when becoming older
4
Q
harassment after break up
A
boy cannot deal with rejection of break up, persist to keep relationship going
5
Q
choosing marriage partner
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highest; mutual attraction
high; dependable character, emotional stability and maturity, pleasing dispositions
low; good financial prospect, money
lowest; religious and political backgrounds
-> biggest cross cultural difference is chastity
6
Q
cultural beliefs & adolescent sexuality
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- restrictive cultures; strong prohibitions (before marriage), strict gender separation, threat of physical punishment/public shaming for premarital sex
- semi-restrictive; prohibitions which are easily not strongly enforced and therefore easily evaded, pregnancy through premarital sex -> marriage
- permissive culture; expect sexuality, encouragement
7
Q
heteronormative dating scripts
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- proactive: males; initiation date/sexual contact, decide where to go, controlling public domain
- reactive: females; private domain, respond to males gestures and sexual initiatives (women as gatekeepers)
