Socioemotional Development in Adolescence Rosalinda Mintre 1213012013

I. Families
a. Autonomy and attachment
i. The attachment to parents in adolescence may facilitate the adolescents social
competence and well-being, as reflected in such characteristics as self-esteem,
emotional adjustment, physical health, and positive peer relations
b. Parent-adolescent conflict
i. Conflict with parents escalates during early adolescence, remains somewhat stable
during the high school year, and then lessens as the adolescent reaches 17 to 20
years of age
ii. The parent-adolescent conflict facilitates the adolescents transmission from being
dependent on parents to becoming an autonomous individual
II. Peers
a. Peer pressure and conformity
i. Around eighth and ninth grades, conformity to peers especially to their antisocial
standards peaks. At this point adolescents are most likely to go along with a peer
to steal hubcaps off a car, draw graffiti on a wall, or steal cosmetics from a store
counter.
b. Cliques
i. Cliques included jocks (athletically oriented), populars (well-known students who
lead social activities), normals (middle-of-the-road students who make up the
masses), druggies or toughs (known for illicit drug use or other delinquent
activities), and nobodies (low in social skills or intellectual abilities).
c. Social policy, peers, and youth organizations
i. Increased use of peers in tutoring and counseling
1. Peers are powerful influences on adolescents, for better or for worse.
2. Stages:
a. Precrowd stage, isolated, unisexual groups
b. Beginning of the crowd unisexual groups, start group-group
interaction
c. The crowd is in structural transition unisexual groups are forming
heterosexual groups, especially among upper=status members
d. Fully developed crowd, heterosexual groups are closely associated
e. Beginning of crowd disintegration, loosely associated groups of
couples
ii. Expansion and improvement of youth organizations:
1. Good youth programs do precisely what adolescents are saying the want
them to do.
d. Dating and romantic relationships
i. Dating scripts:
1. Males: initiating the date (asking for and planning it), controlling the public
domain (driving and opening doors), and initiating sexual interaction
(making physical contact, making out, and kissing)
2. Females: the private domain (concern about appearance, enjoying the
date), participating on the structure of the date established by the male
(being picked up, having doors opened), and responding tp his sexual
overtures.

Question:
1. In your opinion, will authoritarian-parenting-style-children during adolescence grow a lot of conflict
to their parents, or even have no conflict with parents? If they have an argument with their parents,
will it be more intense than the children coming from the authoritativeparenting-style-children?