ED PSYCH 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: 18 Months, Casual Dating, Preadolescence
16 Apr 2018
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Early adolescence: need for sexual contact and intimacy with the opposite-sex peer. Late adolescence: need for integration into adult society. With other-sex peers replaces intimacy with same-sex friends. However, research shows that new targets of intimacy are added to old ones. Intimacy with parents and intimacy with peers/romantic partners serve very different purposes. Adolescents turn to different people depending on the situation. Teens experience different types of intimate relationships with parents and peers. Parent-adolescent relationships are an imbalance of power, teens receive advice. Adolescent peer relationships are mutual, balanced, and have equal exchanges. The phases of dating may differ for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning adolescents. Lgbtq: adolescents who are not exclusively or conventionally heterosexual. Although great strives have been made in increasing the public"s tolerance and understanding of sexial-minority youth, stigmas and stereotypes still make the development of intimate realtionships more complicated among. Moving from sex-segregated friendships to cross-sex friendships. Sets the stage for later romantic relationships.
