PSYCH 242 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Impulsivity, Prosocial Behavior, Harry Stack Sullivan
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9:05 am: peers: the very basics, peers: individuals about the same age or maturity level, peer relationships are important to adolescent adjustment. Friends, classmates, teammates, or people around your same age. Secure attachment to parents: neglected adolescents, characterized as shy, loners, controversial adolescents. Serious adjustment problems: rejected adolescents, risk of academic failure, problems with impulsivity & attention, more likely to be aggressive. Serves many functions: companionship, stimulation: talking about interesting things together, physical support: lending, etc, ego support: maintaining positive image of oneself, social comparison: where adolescents are in terms of status. Intimacy/ affection: having no friends (vs. at least 1) is associated with, lower prosocial behavior, emotional distress, depression, lower grades, quality of friendship matters, conflicts. Jealousy: bad influences and peer pressure, changes in friendship over time, harry stack sullivan. Friends increasingly serve a variety of social needs. Social needs not being met: boredom, depression, lower self worth, loneliness: emerging adulthood.
