relationships

Question 1

DATING & ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS

Answer 1

• Dating tends to begin ~14-15 years
• interest in romantic partners => dating casually; group-based dating(hanging out in groups) => stable relationship
• who we pick to date changes across time:
  * early adolescence : statues- they have high statues
  * middle/late adolescence : kindness,honestly,intelligence,etc.

Question 2

INFLUENCES ON
ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS

Answer 2

• Peer relationships: better quality friendships = better relationhips (ex:knows how to communicate)
• Family relationships:better/closer family has better relationships
• Family factors > having
  older siblings, single
  parents, family instability: earlies dating - less supervision/ modeling in case of older siblings
• Culture:less teenage dating in asian american culture because of higher supervision
• Media:consuming reality tv as an adolescent may think is magical
• Sexual orientation, teens who are quuers shows sexual atraction at the same time as straight people but later dating probably due stigma - historically, more likely to persue dating away from schhol/usual enviroment, exploring sexual orientation outside of relationships

Question 3

FUNCTIONS OF
ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS

Answer 3

• Establish autonomy
• Develop intimacy
• Sense of belonging
• Feelings of self-worth
• Status
• Furthering development
  of gender and/or sexual
  identity

Question 4

impacts romantic relationship

Answer 4

• more social acceptance,more social competence
• more risk-taking behaviour

but outcomes can vary based on culture,age,timing

Question 5

IMPACT OF
ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS : Early

Answer 5

Early starters
* Earlier timing of dating, atypical
sequence(prior to 14)
* start intimacy /serious first when, when most teens from exploring to intamicy/serious
* Associated with negative outcomes: acting out and agression and violance
why?

Question 6

IMPACT OF
ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS : Later

Answer 6

• Late bloomers
• Debate over impact: may be linked to
  delayed social development, lower
  self-esteem or it may not have bad effects even good one depending on the reserch
• Cultural norms - if u feel u are behind then u feel dentramental

Question 7

breakeing up

Answer 7

• most common single trigger for depressive episode

Question 8

dating violence

Answer 8

many relationship between teens has found a significant amount of sating violence (20-30%)

victims:associated with depression,sucidal,drug use,teen pregnancy,droping out of school

Question 9

online peer interaction

Answer 9

are they different then face-to-face interaction?

Question 10

reserch-Mikami

Answer 10

online social interaction predicts academic and emotional adjustment in the transition to university

Question 11

method

Answer 11

-ubc internatioal and indegenous 1ths year students

-use facebook

-they used facebook wall post.and what people were posting in you wall

Question 12

result

Answer 12

good association:greatter connection predicted psychopathology symptoms

bad association: friends deviant posts (ex:illegal activity) predicted lower grades

friends verbal agression predicted less attachment to university

• particular for students with low face to face social acceptance

Question 13

but it depedns if u have a good face-to face connections

Answer 13

• students with good social acceptance: fecebook friend’’s deviant posts predicted stronger attachment to university

Question 14

suggestion

Answer 14

• online peer interaction can serve some of the functions are in-person peer interaction
• frienships as a buffer in stressful situations
• frienship as modeling behaviour

*** the impact of online interactions may depend on face-to-face relationships **