CMN 120 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Conflict Management, Peer Pressure, Longitudinal Study
Document Summary
Less complex feelings: liking (friendship) vs love (romantic relationship) Love is more complex than just being friends with someone. Interpersonal need fulfilled - acceptance: intimate-mutual sharing (middle school aged, children learn about collaboration, relationships can sustain and survive through conflicts. Interpersonal need - intimacy: autonomous interdependence (teenagers, single, particular friend cannot fulfill all our emotional and psychological needs, we need multiple friends. Very culturally specific to western societies: traditional gender roles, social norms that encourage emotional constraint. Increased time w/ friends instead of family: friends fill attachment needs - safe haven & secure base, safe haven is shifted from caregiver/parent to friend, secure base = a foundation for exploration of novel environments. Socioemotional selectivity theory: goals for older adults are different for younger adults, more about quality (old) than quantity (young) Breadth & depth were positively correlated to friendship intensity. Result: their relationships developed an intimate disclosure to a peak, supports the idea for reciprocity of self-disclosure.
