Peer, Romantic Relationships, and Lifestyles Flashcards
What are the important aspects of adolescent social cognition and emotion?
Social cognitive skills and social knowledge of adolescents are important aspects of successful peer relations. So is the ability to manage and regulate ones emotions.
What are the issues involving emotion and romance, including adjustment issues?
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Friends
Are a subset of peers who engage in mutual companionship, support, and intimacy. Thus relationships with friends are more closer and intimate that relations with the peer group. The functions of friends are listed below:
What three stages characterise the development of romantic relationships in adolescence?
Entry into romantic attractions and affiliations.
Exploring romantic relationships.
Consolidating dyadic romantic bonds.
Intimacy in Friendships
Is defined narrowly as self-disclosure, or sharing of private thoughts. Private or personal knowledge about a friend also has been used as an index of intimacy.
What are Crowds?
Opportunities to establish identity, even if only temporarily.
What is Peer Conformity?
The peer culture is defined by many unique values and standards, where members of the group conform and if they don’t they can be cast out of the group.
What are romantic relationships in sexual minority youth?
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Was are Positive Peer Relations?
Peer relations can be both positive and negative:
What are developmental changes in peer time?
Developmental changes in peer time are varied:
What is the function and role of Youth Organisations?
Can have an important inference on an adolescents development.
Sociometric Status
Is used to describe the extent to which children and adolescents are liked or disliked by their peer group. Sociometric status is typically assessed by asking children to rate how much they like or dislike each of their classmates.
Most adolescents conform to the mainstream standard.
Gender and Culture, What are there influences on Relationships?
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Romantic Love
Also called passionate love or eros, has string sexual infatuation components and it often predominates in the early part of a love relationship.
Often characteristic of most adolescent love, and extremely important among collage students.
What are are the functions of dating?
Serve at least 8 functions:
Recreation.
Status.
Socialisation.
Intimacy.
Sexual Experience.
Companionship.
Identity.
Mate Selection.
What is the impact mixed-aged friendships?
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What are Cliques?
Contribute to a sense of affiliation, positive self-esteem, and support separate from parents.
There are five different types of peer status that developmentalists have identified:
Popular Children - Are frequently nominated as a best friend and are rarely disliked by their peers. Possess a number of social skills.
Average Children - Receive an average number of both positive and negative nominations from their peers.
Neglected Children - Are infrequently nominated as a best friend but are not disliked by their peers. Engage in low levels of interaction with peers.
Rejected Children - Are infrequently nominated as someones best friend and are actively disliked by their peers. Often have more serious adjustment problems than those who are neglected. Consistently linked to conduct problems. Disruptive, emotionally reactive, few social skills.
Controversial Children - Are frequently nominated both as someones best friend and as being disliked.
What is loneliness and its impact?
Can develop when individuals go through life transitions:
What are some of the changes in friendship in early adolescence that Sullivan has noted?
That adolescents require same age friends to share intimacy:
What are family peer linkages?
Parents conscious and unconscious influence over the types of relationships.
What do Adolescent Groups Satisfy?
Adolescent Groups Satisfy:
Personal Needs.
Provide Rewards.
Provides Information.
Raises Self-Esteem
Gives Them an Identity.
Satisfy’s need to affiliation and Companionship.
How do different cultural backgrounds influence peer relationships?
Peer group affiliation is often based on social class and ethnicity that may define a group.
Gender Differences and Attachment
Gender plays an important role in peer groups and friendships.
What is the impact of dissolution of a romantic relationship?
Studies of romantic relationships have mainly focused on negative aspects, and few studies have examined the possibility that a romantic break-up might lead to positive changes.
What are negative peer relations?
Peer relations can be both positive and negative:
