PSYCH 133A Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: National Longitudinal Study Of Adolescent To Adult Health, Teen Mom, Safe Sex
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Interview data coded - focus on emerging themes . You get into a relationship and everything"s like oh i got this cool girlfriend and. I"m walking around campus with her and everything but then, then like you start realizing it"s not having a girlfriend isn"t all that. "". About 30% of youth are involved romantically. Going with a popular partner increase in social status in high school: About 50% 9th graders and 70% 11th graders romantically involved. Initiation vs. ending of relationships family or friends. Initiation: implicit & explicit pressure to engage in romantic relationships even if not ready. Young teens agree to start & continue relationship in spite of own reluctance. They were interested in me, and i just kind of didn"t want to say, no, I don"t like you back. " cause i didn"t want to hurt any feelings and, you know. "" (suleiman & deardorff, 2015) Concerns for hurt feelings of the partner prolong relationships relationship.
