CLDP 3338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Agreeableness, Identity Formation, Casual Dating

• School: UT-Dallas
• Department: Child Learning and Development
• Course: CLDP 3338
• Professor: John Santrock

Document Summary

In various contexts, adolescents encounter different messages/opportunities to engage in adaptive and maladaptive behavior that can influence their development. Friendship: friends: subset of peers who engage in mutual companionship, support and intimacy. Important functions: companionship, stimulation information, excitement and amusement, physical support resources and assistance, ego support feedback to help maintain an impression of themselves, social comparison. In adolescence, friends are important in shaping development because everyone has basic social needs that determine emotional well-being. In emerging adulthood, close relationships were more integrated and similar, although decline in number of friendships: two important characteristics in friendships. Loneliness: factors that contribute to loneliness. Individual characteristics (low self-esteem and shyness: peer experiences (low social acceptance, woven into the passage through life transitions (college, moving states, divorce, death, chronic loneliness impaired mental and physical health, academic difficulties. Gender: gender"s influence on peer relations, peer attachment girls show higher attachment bc trust and communication, group size boys associate to larger clusters.