Compare and contrast parental and peer influences on dating relationships in adolescence.
What will be an ideal response?
One area that affects the quality of dating relationships is the type of attachment that adolescents have to their parents. Securely attached adolescents have better dating and romantic relationships than their insecurely attached peers. It might be that adolescents with a history of secure attachment are better able to control their emotions and are more comfortable with self-disclosure in romantic relationships. Thus, adolescents with a secure attachment to parents are likely to approach relationships expecting closeness, warmth, and intimacy. Adolescents with a dismissing/avoidant type of attachment to their parents are likely to expect romantic partners to be unresponsive and unavailable. Adolescents with a preoccupied/ambivalent attachment to their parents are likely to be disappointed and frustrated with intimacy and closeness in romantic relationships. Adolescents whose parents have high marital conflict are less likely to have trusting relationships with romantic partners. This is especially true for girls. Peer relationships and friends provide adolescents opportunities to learn new modes of relating that they can carry over into romantic relationships. Friendships in middle childhood have been linked to security in dating as well as intimacy in dating, at age 16. In one longitudinal study, it was found that adolescents' romantic relationships were linked to their relationships with parents and peers. Sullivan postulated that friendships form the basis for satisfying dating relationships.
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