PSY-PC 2550 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Mental Model, Preadolescence, Attachment In Adults
12 Dec 2018
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Intimacy in adolescence openness, honesty, self-disclosure and trust. Intimacy as an adolescent issue: having at least one intimate friendship is beneficial to an individual"s health, close friendships likely to have a strong emotional foundation. Intimacy the psychosocial domain concerning the formation, maintenance, and termination of close relationships. Infancy attachment continues to have an influence on their capacity to form satisfying intimate relationships during adolescence and adulthood. Some studies show great continuity from infancy through adolescence but others have shown no continuity whatsoever: perception of infant attachment relationship important (as seen through adult attachment. Intimacy more conscious for girls but apparent with boys too: boys shared activities, girls talking = intimacy, friendships more intimate than relationship with parents. Social support the extent to which an individual receives emotional or instrumental assistance form his or her social network. Individuals who are aggressive in relationships tend to be those who were involved in violence earlier on in life.
