Unlikely Optimists, Skeptics, and Believers: Understanding Adolescents' Prospective Relationship Views

Autor/in	Halpern-Meekin, Sarah
Titel	Unlikely Optimists, Skeptics, and Believers: Understanding Adolescents' Prospective Relationship Views
Quelle	In: Journal of Adolescent Research, 27 (2012) 5, S.606-631 (26 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0743-5584
DOI	10.1177/0743558411432634
Schlagwörter	Adolescents; Interviews; Adolescent Attitudes; Interpersonal Relationship; Intimacy; Marriage; College Students; Comparative Analysis; Divorce; Teaching Methods + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Intimität; Ehe; Collegestudent; Ehescheidung; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode
Abstract	Attitudes formed in adolescence create a foundation for family-formation decisions in adulthood. Drawing on qualitative interviews with fifty American adolescents, this article details five relationship-relevant factors that emerge in the teens' discussions of their relationship views. These are personal communication style, divorce acceptance, relationship efficacy, preferred family-formation timing and sequencing, and romantic relationship examples seen growing up. There is systematic variation in the teens' views along these factors, which cluster together into distinct relationship orientations that range in their skepticism of romantic relationships in general and marriage specifically. These relationship orientations among adolescents are compared with those in previous research on college student samples. The importance of these findings for adolescent-focused relationship education is discussed. (Contains 1 table.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10