Adolescent Heterosocial Interactions and Dating

Hansen, David J.; Christopher, Jeanette Smith; Nangle, Douglas W.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4899-0694-6_15

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“…By mid to late adolescence, time spent with opposite sex peers begins to take the form of pursuing romantic interests and developing romantic relationships (Kuttler and Greca 2004; Clark-Lempers, Lempers and Ho 1991; Hansen, Christopher and Nangle 1992). As a result of these changing peer dynamics, the proportion of adolescents who report having a girlfriend or boyfriend steadily increases during the middle teen years.…”

Section: Romantic Partners As Network Bridgesmentioning

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Dangerous Liaisons? Dating and Drinking Diffusion in Adolescent Peer Networks

2011

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The onset and escalation of alcohol consumption and romantic relationships are hallmarks of adolescence, yet only recently have these domains jointly been the focus of sociological inquiry. We extend this literature by connecting alcohol use, dating and peers to understand the diffusion of drinking behavior in school-based friendship networks. Drawing on Granovetter’s classic concept of weak ties, we argue that adolescent romantic partners are likely to be network bridges, or liaisons, connecting daters to new peer contexts which, in turn, promote changes in individual drinking behaviors and allow these behaviors to spread across peer networks. Using longitudinal data of 459 couples from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we estimate Actor-Partner Interdependence Models and identify the unique contributions of partners’ drinking, friends’ drinking, and friends-of-partners’ drinking to daters’ own future binge drinking and drinking frequency. Findings support the liaison hypothesis and suggest that friends-of-partners’ drinking have net associations with adolescent drinking patterns. Moreover, the coefficient for friends-of-partners drinking is larger than the coefficient for one’s own peers and generally immune to prior selection. Our findings suggest that romantic relationships are important mechanisms for understanding the diffusion of emergent problem behaviors in adolescent peer networks.

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Section: Romantic Partners As Network Bridgesmentioning

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Dangerous Liaisons? Dating and Drinking Diffusion in Adolescent Peer Networks

2011

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“…), donde se relaciona con personas desconocidas o no allegadas (Armas y Kelley, 1989;Fereing y Lewis, 1989;Flores y Díaz, 1995). En segundo lugar, la independen-cia de los adultos suele acompañarse de la intensificación de las relaciones con compañeros del mismo sexo Mayseless, Wiseman y Hai, 1998), y del inicio de las relaciones románticas con el otro sexo (Bracken y Crain, 1994;Fiirman y Buhrmester, 1992;Hansen, Christopher y Nangle, 1992). Las relaciones con los amigos desempeñan un papel crítico en el desarrollo de habilidades sociales y de sentimientos de competencia personal, que son fundamentales para el funcionamiento apropiado en la adultez (Hansen et al, 1992;La Greca y López, 1998).…”

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Dificultades interpersonales en la adolescencia : ¿Factor de riesgo de fobia social?

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Carrillo³

2001

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“…These skills may decrease the likelihood of subsequently acting out in aggressive ways when confronted with relationship challenges. Support and self-disclosure have been previously identified as essential predictors of successful adolescent relationships (Hansen et al 1992). Openness and engagement may scaffold more intimate and positive communicative relationships for adolescents.…”

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Long-Term Risks and Possible Benefits Associated with Late Adolescent Romantic Relationship Quality

Kansky

Allen

2018

J Youth Adolescence

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Adolescent romantic relationships have the potential to affect psychological functioning well into adulthood. This study assessed adolescent romantic relationship qualities as long-term predictors of psychological functioning utilizing a longitudinal multi-method, multi-informant study of 80 participants (59% female; 54% Caucasian, 35% African American, 11% mixed or other race) assessed at age 17 along with their romantic partners and at ages 25–27. Controlling for gender, family income, and baseline mental health, partner-reported hostile conflict at age 17 predicted relative increases in internalizing behaviors from age 17 to 27. In contrast, observed teen support with their partner during a help-seeking task at age 17 predicted relative decreases in externalizing behaviors over time. The results are interpreted as suggesting qualities that may help determine whether adolescent romances have positive vs. negative long-term psychological health implications.

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Adolescent Heterosocial Interactions and Dating

Cited by 29 publications

References 57 publications

Dangerous Liaisons? Dating and Drinking Diffusion in Adolescent Peer Networks

Dangerous Liaisons? Dating and Drinking Diffusion in Adolescent Peer Networks

Dificultades interpersonales en la adolescencia : ¿Factor de riesgo de fobia social?

Long-Term Risks and Possible Benefits Associated with Late Adolescent Romantic Relationship Quality

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