Romantic Relationship Advice from Anonymous Online Helpers: The Peer Support Adolescents Exchange

Autor/inn/en	Kim, Jung-Eun; Weinstein, Emily C.; Selman, Robert L.
Titel	Romantic Relationship Advice from Anonymous Online Helpers: The Peer Support Adolescents Exchange
Quelle	In: Youth & Society, 49 (2017) 3, S.369-392 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0044-118X
DOI	10.1177/0044118X15604849
Schlagwörter	Interpersonal Relationship; Intimacy; Peer Influence; Adolescents; Help Seeking; Trust (Psychology); Aggression; Gender Differences; Dating (Social); Computer Mediated Communication; Web Sites; Behavior; Coding + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Intimität; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Help-seeking behavior; Help-seeking behaviour; Hilfe suchendes Verhalten; Geschlechterkonflikt; Computerkonferenz; Web-Design; Codierung; Programmierung
Abstract	This empirical study investigates adolescents' responses to peers' personal accounts of romantic relationship difficulties posted to an online forum. We analyze 440 anonymous responses to personal accounts of four romantic relationship issues: controlling partners, break-ups, trust issues, and partner cruelty. Responses were categorized, in order of prevalence, as judgment, recommendation, words of kindness, personal experience, and probing question. Adolescents who provide recommendations most often advise that peers terminate their relationships, rather than seek help or communicate directly. However, adolescents respond differently to cruelty, as compared with the other three relationship issues. Although still likely to recommend ending the relationship in cases of cruelty, they are significantly more likely to suggest seeking help, and less likely to suggest direct communication. Adolescents also respond differently depending on the poster's gender: They offer more Recommendations overall, and specifically more Recommendations to Seek Help and Break-up/Move on, to female than to male posters. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01