PSY310H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Dating Abuse, Physical Attractiveness, Sex Segregation
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Intimacy: one of the most remarkable things about adolescent is the ways in which close relationships change over the years, adolescents" relationships are closer, more personal. More involved and more emotionally changed than children"s iii. Intimate relationship is an emotional attachment between two people that is characterized by concern for each-other"s wellbeing, a willingness to disclose private and occasionally sensitive topics and sharing of common interests and activities, openness, trust, honesty and self-disclosure. iv. Sullivan emphasized the social aspects of growth, suggesting that psychological development cab be best understood when looked at in interpersonal terms ii. In early adolescence begin to make the shift from intimate relationships with members of the same sex to intimate relationships with members of the other sex. From sullivan"s theory comes the idea that there is a progression in an individual"s capacity for intimacy with the emergence of romantic relationships occurring after individuals have experienced emotional closeness within same sex friendships.
