FMLY 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 66: Grammatical Gender, Emo, Peer Pressure
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Quality of attachment in early adolescence predicts drug use in later adolescence/early adulthood. Become far more significant in adolescence compared to any other stage. Social networks often revolve around electronic communication platforms: teens spend about 2 hours/day talking/texting peers on their cellphones, 45 minutes/day communicating via instant messaging/social networking websites. Belief in importance of popularity and peer acceptance strengthens over elementary years and peaks in early adolescence: age 12-15, place more emphasis on popularity than on any other dimension of peer relations o. Quality of relation becomes more important as teen gets older: friendships become increasingly intimate as adulthood in entered o. Lots of variation in these characteristics in friendships frie(cid:374)dships are (cid:373)ore sta(cid:271)le tha(cid:374) you(cid:374)ger (cid:272)hildre(cid:374) s frie(cid:374)dships. Helps them learn to channel aggressive and competitive impulses. Reasons for ending friendships reflect influence of individual differences in rate of development of social skills.