AHSC 314 Lecture 18: AHSC314_Genesis of Social Relationships
10 Mar 2017
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The more time spent with friends, the less time spent at home: development of identity: friends assist in developing an identity outside of the family. Peer groups may dictate norms that differ from those of adults, and friends become sources of feedback. Questions of acceptance and rejection are most prevalent, so teens are susceptible to pressures. As teens grow older they are better able to make up their minds and stand up to peer pressure. Parents and peers: parent-peer issue: debating whether parents or peers are more influential to adolescents, both are influential in different circumstances, peers fill a vacuum when parents are not engaged or involved with their teens. It is only when parents are not playing their roles that peers take on greater significance: while friends play a key role, without parental support teens find it harder to progress towards adulthood in a functional manner.
