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13 February 2003 Full publication history
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10.1111/1532-7795.1301001 View/save citation
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Requests for reprints should be sent to W. Andrew Collins, Institute of Child Development, 51 E. River Road,
Minneapolis, MN 55455-0345. E-mail: wcollins@umn.edu
Abstract
Adolescents' romantic relationships have attracted popular interest, but, until recently, little scientific curiosity.
Research has been impeded by erroneous assumptions that adolescent relationships are trivial and
transitory, that they provide little information beyond measures of the influence of parent-child and peer
relationships, and that their impact is primarily associated with problems of behavior and adjustment. This
article proposes that distinguishing five features of romantic relationships (involvement, partner selection,
relationship content, quality, and cognitive and emotional processes) is essential to describing adolescents'
relationships and their developmental significance. These distinctions also help to clarify the role of context,
age-related variations, and individual differences in the impact of romantic experiences. Research is needed
to illuminate questions of how and under what conditions romantic relationships affect individual development
and how romantic and other close relationships jointly influence developmental trajectories during
adolescence.
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