By the end of this chapter, students should be able to:
- Describe the benefits that adolescents gain from having friends.
- Discuss how family relationships influence peer relationships.
- Discuss how friendship changes as individuals move from early to late adolescence.
- Be able to describe the activities that friends share.
- Know the characteristics that distinguish popular adolescents from those who are not considered popular. Distinguish between adult and adolescent definitions of popularity.
- Explain two ways that adolescents of high status hold on to their high status. Also, be able to discuss more general ways that adolescents encourage each other to conform.
- Discuss bullying, including who is likely to bully and be bullied. Know strategies that should be part of effective anti-bullying programs.
- Outline the course of psychosocial development.
- Be aware of how common it is for adolescents to form crushes and fall in love.
- Discuss loss of love in adolescence including techniques to help adolescents cope.
- Describe the many reasons that adolescents date.
- List the advantages and disadvantages of “going together.”
- Discuss dating violence.
- Compare the different styles of non-marital cohabitation. Know the relationship between premarital cohabitation and subsequent marital happiness.
- Describe the reasons for adolescent marriage.
- Discuss the stresses faced by married adolescents.
