HD FS 129 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Homophily, Gender Identity, Peer Pressure
2 Sep 2016
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Peers: groups of people who are roughly the same age. Friends: people who share a mutual friendship (2-way) Fathers spend a greater proportion of time in recreation w/ adolescents. Frequency of conflict from early to late adolescence decreases. Perception of severity of conflict worse for parents. Disagreements are not typically a threat to parent-adolescent relationships. Continuously high conflict are associated w/ negative outcomes. Decreases in conflict are linked to better adjustment. Spend more time and place more value in talking with friends. More likely to say they trust and feel close to their friends. Shared activities are more likely to be the basis of their friendships. Basis of friendship shifts from childhood to adolescent. They also disclose personal info to their friends more often than do younger children. Boys and girls differ in terms of their friendships. Defining characteristics of cliques do not change (you can leave a certain group)
